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Model Who Witnessed Prince of Monaco Brawl Meets Prosecutors

By DNAinfo Staff on February 29, 2012 6:10pm  | Updated on February 29, 2012 7:11pm

Model Shawna Christensen leaving the Manhattan District Attorney's office on Wednesday.
Model Shawna Christensen leaving the Manhattan District Attorney's office on Wednesday.
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DNAinfo/Shayna Jacobs

DOWNTOWN — A model who witnessed a brawl between former nightclub owner Adam Hock and the Prince of Monaco at a swanky Meatpacking District bar was interviewed by prosecutors Wednesday.

Shawna Christensen, a one-time face for an Oil of Olay ad campaign, was apparently partying with  Hock and others at the Double Seven on Gansevoort Street in the early hours of Feb. 12 when Hock allegedly threw a punch at Prince Pierre Casiraghi and attacked other members of the royal's posse, which included Paris Hilton's ex-boyfriend Stavros Niarchos III.

After spending an hour inside the Manhattan District Attorney's office Wednesday afternoon, Christensen, wrapped fully in a black coat, scarf and large sunglasses, rushed outside in the rain and looked for the black Mercedes she arrived in with Hock's attorney, Salvatore Strazzullo.

"Where's the f**king car, Sal?" was all Christensen said as she tried to find the car waiting for her.

Strazzullo, who has called for charges against the prince and his friends, says Christensen and other witnesses will help prosecutors get to the the "truth" of the matter, which he believes is that the prince and his crew attacked Hock first.

"She went in there alone and whatever she said was the truth," Strazzullo said Wednesday, without elaborating.

Hock, 47, is due back in court on March 29. Prosecutors have not said whether they are considering charges against Casiraghi, who is Grace Kelly's grandson, and his friends.

Christensen is also credited on IMDB.com as having acted in one episode of "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit" in 2011.