UK – from www.telegraph.co.uk – Louise Glover, [pictured] a former Playboy Model of the Year, attacked the daughter of 80s musician Paul Hardcastle in a nightclub lavatory, a court has heard.

Glover, 26, tried to push the head of Maxine Hardcastle down a lavatory during the attack, jurors were told.

It is alleged that Glover, who has made semi-naked appearances in magazines and newspapers, launched her assault following a ”perceived slight” involving her husband.

Prosecutor Andrew Judge said Miss Hardcastle was left with bruising on her face, scratches on her arms and legs and hair loss after Glover pulled her up from the floor.

Miss Hardcastle’s father, famed for his Vietnam-inspired dance hit 19 which stayed at Number 1 in the UK charts for five weeks in 1985, accompanied her to court on the opening day of the trial.

Mr Judge told Hove Crown Court she and her friend, Nancy Stillwell, had been invited by Glover to an event she was hosting at a bar in Brighton on December 15, 2007.

The party moved on in the early hours of the following morning to the Oceana nightclub in the city where Miss Hardcastle and Miss Stillwell went into the same lavatory cubicle together when Glover was heard outside.

”Louise Glover was let in,” said Mr Judge. ”Either she was or became quite agitated and accused Maxine Hardcastle of talking to her husband and telling her not to do it.”

Miss Stillwell then left the cubicle after Glover spilt drink on her dress. ”The defendant kept on to the aggrieved about the perceived slight involving her husband,” Mr Judge said.

”Eventually Miss Hardcastle said something like, ‘This is all messed up’. Louise Glover then punched her round the nose, which sent her backwards against the wall and on to the floor.

”Louise Glover then pulled her up and said, ‘You are calling me ——- up?’ Miss Hardcastle denied saying that but Louise Glover punched her again on the nose.”

Glover is then alleged to have pulled Miss Hardcastle up by her hair, pulling some of it out in the process, before trying to put her head down the lavatory.

As a blood-covered Miss Hardcastle had her head banged against the lavatory rim repeatedly, she shouted at Glover to stop, Mr Judge told jurors.

Eventually, Miss Stillwell came back into the lavatory and heard Miss Hardcastle screaming before she fetched Glover’s husband.

Glover allegedly told him, ‘Tell her to get off me first’.

”At that point, Miss Hardcastle was curled up in a ball trying to protect herself and shouting help,” Mr Judge said.

Glover was pulled out of the cubicle by her husband and was arrested on December 21.

In interview, she claimed she knocked on the door of the cubicle after hearing the two women talking about her.

She added that she acted in self-defence after Miss Hardcastle became upset ”about a family problem”.

Glover, of Audley Gardens, Loughton, Essex, denies assault occasioning actual bodily harm. The trial continues.