The wife of disgraced Wall Street horndog Benjamin Wey dodged jail time Monday by agreeing to undergo anger management for assaulting a photographer during her husband’s sex-harassment trial.
An exhausted-looking Michaela Wey — wearing a black sweater and navy-blue slacks — appeared before Manhattan Criminal Court Justice Kevin McGrath and agreed to do three days community service and therapy for assaulting the shutterbug as she left federal court in June after testifying for her hubby at his trial.
She had faced up to a year behind bars on charges of assault, attempted assault and harassment for boxing a Post photographer about the ears as he tried to snap her photo after her tearful
court appearance on behalf of her husband in June.
If Michaela Wey stays out of trouble for six months, the charges against her will be dismissed.
The 39-year-old wife and her lawyer, Harlan Protass, declined comment as they left court.
Benjamin Wey did not attend the hearing.
Michaela Wey — who was born in Czechoslovakia and met her husband while working as a Denny’s waitress — sobbed on the stand at her husband’s trial.
Benjamin Wey had been sued by Hanna Bouveng, his pretty Swedish former intern, for pressuring her into sex and then writing on his blog that she was a cocaine-addicted hooker.
A jury awarded Bouveng $18 million, but a Manhattan federal judge recently modified the amount to $5.65 million.
Still, the Weys’ legal woes continue, as he was indicted on stock-manipulation charges, and she was sued alongside him in a related civil complaint by the federal Securities and Exchange Commission.