Hollywood nightclub boss CHRIS PACIELLO is in trouble with the law again = after he was arrested on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon last we= ek (02Feb10).
The socialite, who once dated Madonna, was taken into custody following= an alleged brawl with club security at the Voyeur nightspot in Miami, Fl= orida.
He was booked on an assault with a deadly weapon charge, and was later = bailed on a $30,000 (=C2=A318,750) bond.
However, his lawyer, Keith Fink, tells New York gossip column Page Six = that the only weapon his client used was his fists in self-defence.
He explains to the publication, "There was no weapon involved. The only= weapon was his hands. The bouncers were pushing a number of people outsi= de Voyeur, and a number of fights broke out. Chris pushed back, and then = three or four bouncers jumped on him and kicked the s**t out of him. He w= as in the wrong place at the wrong time. He is contemplating civil action= against the bouncers." Paciello, who has also dated model/actress Sofia Vergara, walked free f= rom jail in 2006 after serving seven years of a 10-year sentence for taki= ng part in a bungled raid in Staten Island, New York in 1983 that left a = woman dead.