Socialite Accused In Murder Of Father Requests Yoga In Jail

TIL there's yoga at Rikers Island.
Thomas Gilbert, Jr., is accused in the murder of this father.

Thomas Gilbert, Jr., is accused in the murder of this father.

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Those Ivy League kids really know how to work the system.

Thomas Gilbert Jr., 30, is accused of killing his hedge fund manager father, allegedly because his dad had docked his $3,000-per-month allowance and pressured him to pay his own rent.

The Princeton grad is in custody at New York's Rikers Island correctional facility while he undergoes a court-ordered medical evaluation. Jail staffers told the New York Daily News that Gilbert exercises incessantly, jogging in place and badgering workers with requests for yoga classes.

"He kept asking for yoga," a jail staffer told NYDN. "He thought he was in some resort."

Gilbert's next court date is scheduled for Sept. 10.

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