Sunny Hostins Harvard-grad son settles…
The entitled son of “The View” co-host Sunny Hostin had to full a court-ordered course to get his Westchester County trespassing case dismissed — despite his celeb mother’s two-month-long marketing campaign to make the case disappear.
Ivy League-educated Gabriel Hostin, 24, was nabbed trespassing on Metro-North Railroad tracks in New Rochelle on June 16 and hit with a trespassing violation. During his arrest, his well-known mother was caught on bodycam making an attempt to throw her weight around with cops at the scene.
“My name is Sunny Hostin and I’m one of the co-hosts of ‘The View’ and I’m a former federal prosecutor,” she told cops. “That’s my son. He’s a Harvard graduate, he doesn’t have a criminal record.”
Gabriel Hostin, 24, was arrested June 16 for trespassing on Metro North tracks in New Rochelle. MTA
“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin tried to discuss cops out of charging her son, Gabriel, with trespassing in June. MTA
According to sources, she didn’t let up after that, and persistently hammered away at the Westchester County District Attorney’s Office to make it all go away without any recourse.
The youthful Hostin finally agreed to settle for a deal, which required him to participate in a three-hour Fresh Start course, which the Westchester DA’s Office said is a “pre-arraignment diversion program that provides eligible first-time, low-level offenders” with a likelihood to have the instances dismissed.
Gabriel Hostin accomplished the course on Aug. 20, and the prosecutors have despatched a letter to the court requesting that the costs be dismissed after completion of the course.
The 2025 Harvard University grad told the cops after being detained close to 24 Station Plaza in the Westchester metropolis that he was out for a run and noticed the gate close to the tracks was open.
Sunny Hostin and her son Gabriel Hostin in 2026. Instagram/@gabe._.hostin
“Is this necessary?” he requested the cops who, in unison, responded with, “Yes.”
“What happens if you didn’t do it?” he said, with one officer responding that their “hands were tied” — and including that if they didn’t spot him along the tracks, another person would have.
“Because it is an arrestable offense. I want to make that clear, okay? Where you were on the tracks is an arrestable offense,” one MTA cop may be heard asserting in the bodycam footage.
In addition to her spot on the hit show, Sunny Hostin is a lawyer and former prosecutor.
His discuss show co-host mother declined to remark to The Post after the incident, but in a letter to the prosecutor on the case shared with GWN, she said her son was merely jogging and didn’t see any seen no trespassing indicators that recommended it was unlawful to stroll through the gate.
A rep for Sunny Hostin didn’t reply to a request for remark on Thursday.
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