The loony hedge-funder accused of bullying his cookbook wife was officially pronounced too crazy for court today — a defense-prosecution consensus he appeared to join by shouting curses at a Manhattan judge.
“The judge is a f—ing crook!” multi-millionaire Paul Greenwald yelled from his pen behind the courtroom, when court officers tried to bring him before Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Daniel FitzGerald.
“And I take that as a resounding ‘No’ that he doesn’t want to come out,” the judge quipped.
Greenwald’s foodie wife, Michelle, 56, teaches at NYU’s Stern School of Business and wrote the popular “The Magic Melting Pot” cookbook. In 1988 she was named one of Advertising Age’s 100 “Best and Brightest Women in Advertising and Marketing in the US.”
Greenwald is charged with seven counts of felony criminal contempt for an alleged campaign of harassment — all in alleged violation of a protection order — that included nasty phone calls and grabbing her by the arm and screaming at her in front of her Meatpacking District apartment.
He’ll get treatment in a locked city correction psych ward, said his lawyer, Ilissa Brownstein. “It’s really sad,” she said. “We need to just get him fit, get him back here and get rid of this case.”

