High-end matchmaker Richard Easton isn’t quite the ladies’ man he claims to be.
Easton was recently profiled in The Post as the founder of a matchmaking service that charges guys up to $100,000 to find them mates — but we’ve since learned he has two domestic-violence convictions on his criminal record.
Court documents show Easton was found guilty in 2004 of misdemeanor attempted assault stemming from an incident at a restaurant in which he slapped a woman, fracturing her nose. He was sentenced to one year of probation and ordered to do 25 hours of community service. He also settled a civil suit for $75,000.
It wasn’t Easton’s first run-in with the law, either. He pleaded guilty in 1994 to misdemeanor battery after his ex-wife filed charges in California.
Of the 2004 conviction, Easton — who’s 54, not 44, as he’d claimed — told Page Six, “My fingertips brushed her mouth. Still, under no circumstance is it OK to hit a woman. What I did was wrong. I’ve lived in New York for 13 years, and everyone who knows me knows that I’m not that kind of man. I said I was sorry immediately. I’m still sorry.”
As for the incident with his ex-wife, Easton explained, “I pleaded guilty because I didn’t want to drag my family through court. My ex-wife and I are friends.”
In a story headlined “Meet Your Match (Maker),” Easton had said that men pay him between $10,000 and $100,000 a year to find mates “because they are looking for serious relationships. They could [have sex] on a Saturday night for a lot less.”
Easton doesn’t charge women. His Web site says, “Richard comes from a traditional family and was always taught to put women on a pedestal.”