Hamptons socialite Whitney St. John hauled her young sons into court Wednesday in her increasingly tense divorce battle with her publishing scion husband James Fairchild — after the kids refused to leave their father’s house.
St. John filed papers in Suffolk County Court demanding her estranged hubby bring their 9- and 13-year-old kids before a judge, claiming they were “in danger.”
“We’re here to get those boys back,” St. John’s lawyer Donald Shlimbaum told The Post’s Gabrielle Fonrouge outside court. “The more time they spend with James Fairchild, the longer they will be emotionally endangered,” Shlimbaum warned.
Fairchild’s attorney Michael Stutman, of the firm Mishcon de Reya, called the allegations “nonsense.”
The couple shares custody, with each taking the kids for a week at a time. But a family source told The Post’s Julia Marsh the boys had refused to get in their mother’s car when she recently picked them up.
Justice David Reilly had an hour-long huddle in his office with the kids — the parents and their lawyers were kept out — and convinced the boys to leave court with their mom.
Whitney was all smiles as she loaded the kids into a black Escalade.
She declined to comment, but her lawyer said, “My client got her kids back, which we’re really happy about.”
Stutman said, “We are pleased the children will be spending time with their mother as we had hoped for all along.”