Nick Loeb doesn’t like the way he’s been depicted as a spoiled hanger-on in so many of the stories about his break-up with Sofia Vergara — and he should be glad it’s finally over, his friends say.
“She’s a horror,” said one pal. “Her manager — a nasty little Colombian — is recycling the ‘Nick likes coke and hookers’ stuff.” (In 2012, two prostitutes alleged to the National Enquirer that they had intimate encounters, including “lines of cocaine laid out,” with Loeb. He has vehemently denied these accusations.)
Loeb, an heir to two Wall Street dynasties, declined to be interviewed, but his pal told me the couple argued loudly on the way to the November 2011 Miami Beach press conference where Loeb said he would not run for the US Senate.
“I saw her throw his cellphone out a car window on the way to the hotel,” said the friend.
Loeb, a Republican, had raised $250,000 for the Senate race — none of it from Vergara — but decided not to run after being injured in a car accident.
“She refused to stand in a [photo] with him for the cameras [at the press conference],” said my source. “She could not stand sharing the limelight.”
The “Modern Family” star, the highest-paid actress on television with a $30 million salary, never invested in any of Loeb’s ventures — including his Onion Crunch condiment company — nor was she ever asked to.
“He paid for [their] New York and Los Angeles digs,” according to the source. “He paid his own way to [her] awards ceremonies. He lived in a tuxedo.”
Friends say Vergara was rude during dinners, monitoring email and social media on her cellphone.
“She only joins the conversation if it’s about her,” one said.
Another associate of Loeb’s told me, “I wouldn’t say ‘bitch’ — but . . . I’m happy to see her go. Good riddance.”
Calls to Vergara’s reps were not returned.