Jason Wahler N-Bombed into Court

Mon., Aug. 20, 2007 3:02 PM PDT by Marcus Errico

The Hills are alive with the sound of N-bombs...

Erstwhile MTV reality boy-toy Jason Wahler and his former sidekick, model Kristen DeLuca, were on the receiving end of an assault and civil rights lawsuit from a Los Angeles traffic cop.

Jonathan Wallace, who toils as a Department of Transportation traffic officer, filed the suit Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court, claims Wahler and DeLuca roughed him up while screaming racial epithets as he attempted to help a tow-truck driver.

Wallace is asking for at least $200,000 in damages for assault, battery and violation of civil rights.

There was no immediate comment from Wahler, 20, or DeLuca, 25.

According to the lawsuit, Wallace assisted a tow-truck driver who was impounding a car on L.A.'s Wilshire Boulevard.

Wahler and DeLuca were passengers in a car driven by an unidentified "friend." Their vehicle nearly clipped the tow truck and Wallace, who was attempting to stop traffic to allow the truck to maneuver into place.

The car pulled over, and Wahler and DeLuca got out "in an aggressive and confrontational manner."

"Wahler approached the tow-truck driver first, physically thrusting his chest into that of the tow-truck driver while unleashing a verbal barrage of racial statements and swearing profusely," the suit contends.

Wallace says he attempted to calm down Wahler "in a professional and courteous manner," but Wahler responded with another chest thrust, allegedly calling the officer a "n----er," "motherf---er," "fag" and "fatass."

Wahler and DeLuca are both white; Wallace is black.

Around that point, Wahler slugged the officer in the left eye, per the suit.

Wallace managed to get away and call the LAPD as Wahler became entangled with the tow-truck driver.

Wahler, equally known for stints on The Hills and Laguna Beach as well as his burgeoning rap sheet, and ex-girlfriend DeLuca, who has shown off her bod in Playboy, both pleaded no contest to misdemeanor battery stemming from the incident.

DeLuca was slapped with 24 months' probation and a suspended 120-day jail sentence.

Wahler was initially ordered to serve two months in jail for the drunken outburst, but he wound up having the sentence suspended after checking into rehab. He was also placed on 36 months' probation, ordered to attend 104 AA meetings and 36 hours of anger-management classes and directed to perform community service at Los Angeles' Museum of Tolerance.

Prosecutors attempted to have the suspended sentence revoked and Wahler jailed after he was arrested in Seattle on charges of assault, criminal trespass and underage drinking for a booze-fueled hotel brawl.

That arrest, Wahler's fourth in less than a year, also featured a racial and antigay tirade against the arresting officer, according to prosecutors. The Seattle charges carry a maximum penalty of 10 days in jail, a $4,500 fine and chemical dependency counseling. The case is pending.

While the judge in the Los Angeles case refused to have Wahler jailed, he did warn the underage reality star to stop drinking.