The condo board of the Atelier at 635 West 42nd Street is all hot and bothered. The board claims that strip club kingpin Robert Gans is using his unit for business purposes. Sexy business.
The New York Post reports that the board has filed suit against Mr. Gans, whom they allege is operating an escort service out of his apartment. An escort service is apparently a little too sexy for New York’s sexiest building. Read More
Tom Cruise’s lawyer Bert Fields has issued a press release announcing the star’s lawsuit against Life & Style magazine’s publisher for claiming that the star “abandoned” daughter Suri. Read More
Though it’s not as bad as the fake implant/Botox stories that have been making their way around the country, you’d hope (?) that outside of Los Angelenos, New Yorkers would be the most wary of quack plastic surgeons. Not everyone who hangs out near a massage parlor is licensed to inject things into your body, ladies! Haven’t we learned that by now?
Apparently not, as Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman gravely advised residents in a press release sent out today. Read More
The man on the other end of the intercom had warned me he was going to call the police. When he said it, The Observer knew he didn’t mean the kind that would pull up to the curb in a blue and white squad car with the letters NYPD stenciled on the door. This was Borough Park, after all.
The neighborhood, a stronghold of the city’s Hasidic community, has its own ambulance corps, rabbinical courts and civilian security squad, the Shomrim. The Observer had been drifting around the area, a stranger in a strange land, and given our mission, we weren’t surprised to see a neighborhood enforcer bounding towards us. He had a huge belly that parted his suspenders, a sandy beard and noticeably thick hands. Read More
An NYU administrator is accusing the school for failing to honor her promotion after she claimed that then-New York University Schack Institute dean James Stuckey sexually harassed her in a 2011 incident, according to a lawsuit filed in New York State Supreme Court.
Stephanie Bonadio, 34, alleges that Mr. Stuckey had “forcibly placed her hand on his crotch and his erect penis” while the two were discussing her recent promotion at a dinner at The Strip House on September 23, the suit says. Read More
Chris McGrath, an author who self-published a book called The Attempted Murder of God: Hidden Science You Really Need to Know under the pseudonym of “Scrooby” is now suing an Amazon reviewer, Vaughan Jones, who apparently maligned his book. Mr. Jones also outed Mr. McGrath as the man behind Scrooby in the reviews section on Read More
The proprietors of the Upper East Side gallery Cook Fine Art have been sued by a former client after they allegedly sold his paintings and absconded with his money to the South of France.
According to Courthouse News, longtime Cook client George Ball authorized the sale of “three Picasso drawings, three Matisse drawings Read More
Sometimes, a picture’s worth a thousand words. Other times, a handful of them are worth a 10-page decision document.
A judge in the Southern District last Thursday threw out the copyright infringement lawsuit against the artist Ryan McGinley. The lawsuit, filed by another artist named Janine Gordon this February, alleged that around 150 of Mr. Read More
Former New York Governor, Attorney General, and CNN host Eliot Spitzer—who The Observer had a nice chat with last week over the recent rage directed at Wall Street’s ratings agencies—is this week being sued for libel over a year-old column for Slate. Read More
Kathryn Stockett, author of the mega-bestselling novel The Help, was sued by Ablene Cooper, a black housekeeper and nanny who claimed that a character of the same race, profession and a very similar name, Aibileen, was based on her life. Ms. Cooper works for Ms. Stockett’s brother and alleged that Ms. Stockett had used her Read More
