Prosecutors dropped disorderly conduct charges Tuesday against pop icon Paul Simon and his wife, Edie Brickell, stemming from an ugly shoving match at the couple’s Connecticut home in April.
“The prosecutor will not be prosecuting the case,” said Norwalk Superior Court deputy clerk Emmy Kalmanidis, adding the case will be dismissed in 13 months if the married songbirds stay out of trouble.
Simon and wife Edie Brickell, 48, and their attorneys did not appear in court for the brief proceeding, which took about one minute to complete.
Brickell picked a fight with Simon, 72, in a cottage on their property in New Canaan in April, and the dispute got physical.
The Simon & Garfunkel legend tried to walk out of the $17 million cottage, but his 6-inches-taller New Bohemians wife got in his way and gave him a shove, which he returned, the couple’s lawyer has said.
“There were a couple of pushes,” celebrity lawyer Allen Cramer admitted when the couple was hit with the misdemeanor charge.
“She wanted to talk about something, and Paul didn’t want to talk about it.”
The couple held hands during their April appearance in Norwalk Superior Court.
“Both of us are fine together. We’re going home together, and we’re going to watch our son play baseball,” Simon told the judge at the time.
“We had an argument, which is atypical of us. Neither of us has any fear or any reason to feel threatened. I don’t feel like I need to be protected.”
A woman at the Connecticut state attorney’s office said prosecutors would have no comment.
A driver entering the Simon’s gated estate said they wouldn’t comment either.
Attorneys for Simon and Brickell did not return calls.