Kiefer Sutherland might be spending too much time playing head-busting counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer.

At an after-party for the Met Costume Institute gala at Submercer on Monday, the star of "24" got into an argument with fashion label Proenza Schouler co-founder Jack McCollough which ended with the macho actor head-butting the flamboyant designer and breaking his nose.

The night-life blog Guest of a Guest reported the argument stemmed from a conversation Sutherland was having with actress Brooke Shields, though no further details were provided. (All three were at the gala earlier in the evening.) McCollough reportedly spent the night in the hospital.

Sources said McCollough filed a complaint with cops that night. Socialite-cum-writer Derek Blasberg, who hooked up with McCollough when he was working as an assistant at Vogue in 2005, alluded to the incident on Twitter, but deleted his account shortly after posting it.

According to one eyewitness account, "Sutherland was really drunk and he got accidentally bumped by McCollough. They started arguing and then he just head-butted him."

A spy who had spotted Sutherland earlier in the evening at the Gramercy Park Hotel's Rose Bar said, "He was running around wearing a giant feather boa and acting totally crazy. He was dancing feverishly and twirling people around all over the place. He seemed to be quite intoxicated."

This isn't the first time that Sutherland has been at the center of a public disturbance. In 2007, a visibly intoxicated Sutherland took a flying leap and tackled a Christmas tree in the lobby of a hotel -- footage of which eventually surfaced on YouTube. Sutherland has also twice been arrested on charges of DUI.

A rep for Sutherland did not respond to multiple requests for comment. A rep for McCollough declined to comment on the matter as well.

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