“Boardwalk Empire” actor Michael Pitt made a bizarre overture to a Post reporter at a Brooklyn court hearing Thursday – as his defense attorney attempted to get his criminal sex act charges tossed.
Pitt, 44, tried schmoozing the reporter — inviting her to his home to “have a conversation” — after she approached him in Brooklyn Supreme Court for comment ahead of a hearing in his ongoing domestic violence case.
Wearing sunglasses and a baseball cap, Pitt — who is accused of sexually assaulting his ex-girlfriend and beating her at his Brooklyn home — insisted that if the reporter wanted to talk about the case, she should “come over” to his pad.
“If you want to come over to my house, and have a conversation, officially, you’re the New York Post, you can come to my house, I’m inviting you there,” he droned. “You can come there and have a conversation with me, you should have done that before.”
But when the reporter tried to schedule an official interview, the “Dreamers” actor balked.
He then pressed the reporter with personal questions about where she was from and her education — while holding a cellphone up to her face and recording the interaction, until his attorney ushered him into the courtroom.
Pitt, who also starred on TV’s “Dawson’s Creek,” was arrested in May for allegedly assaulting his then-girlfriend multiple times at his Bushwick home.
During Thursday’s hearing, Pitt’s attorney, Robert Gottlieb, filed a motion with the court to get access to the victim’s phone in an effort to dismiss the criminal sex act charges in the case.
“He is in fact innocent,” Gottlieb insisted.
Pitt — who played half of a killer duo opposite Ryan Gosling in 2002’s “Murder by Numbers” — was also joined by an unidentified woman as he showed up to court, dressed in a black suit jacket and a linen white shirt.
Judge Abena Darkeh took Pitt off supervised release, prompting him to put his hands together and mouth “thank you.”
He’d initially been placed on supervision earlier this year at his arraignment on a nine-count indictment including first-degree sexual abuse, criminal sexual acts, assault, strangulation and other charges.
Prosecutors accused Pitt of assaulting his ex-girlfriend in four separate violent attacks between April 2020 and August 2021.
In one alleged incident, he is accused of forcibly fondling the victim and then three months later, sexually assaulting her and beating her with a 4-inch-by-4-inch piece of wood.
In a separate occasion in June 2021, prosecutors alleged Pitt attacked the victim with a cinderblock.
Pitt maintains his innocence and has pleaded not-guilty to all the charges.
His attorney said that the New Jersey native has been “working on multiple projects” in Italy and “throughout Europe, different films” and that he was set to fly to France on Friday.
The judge said an order of protection remained in place requiring Pitt to stay away from the alleged victim, and that the legal team should notify the court by email of any of the actor’s travel plans.
He’s due back in court on Jan. 29, 2026.
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