If I were a social scientist, I’d do a neat study of why lawsuits involving Big Names come in tight groupings, like buses. But hey I’m not (a social scientist). So I just report ’em:<\/p>\n
From yesterday’s Daily News<\/em>:<\/p>\n Soros atty: Broken vow = 1.9M co-op?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Just because billionaire George Soros broke his promise to buy his girlfriend a luxury condo doesn’t mean she has grounds to sue, his lawyers argued Tuesday.<\/em><\/p>\n “I can see how she would be disappointed,” Soros’ attorney, Gary Stein, told Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Debra James. But to merit a lawsuit, he said, Adriana Ferryr would have had to suffer “unconscionable injury.”<\/em><\/p>\n “Not getting a free multimillion-dollar apartment does not rise to that level. Having to pay your own rent is not unconscionable,” Stein declared.<\/em><\/p>\n Stein was trying to persuade James to toss the $10 million lawsuit before Soros, 81, ever has to answer a single question under oath about what he promised to Ferryr, a 28-year-old Brazilian.<\/em><\/p>\n Ferryr, a TV soap opera star and a Columbia University student, said she was planning to buy the one-bedroom condo at 30 E. 85the St. for $1.9 million when Soros, her steady boyfriend, offered to buy it for her. She agreed.<\/em><\/p>\n Instead, she says in court papers, Soros dumped her, bought the apartment behind her back and installed another girlfriend in it\u00a0\u2014 a pharmacist he’d been seeing on the side.<\/em><\/p>\n “He had basically stolen the apartment from her,” said Ferryr’s lawyer, Zachary Kozak.\u00a0\u2014 Barbara Ross<\/em><\/p>\n My comment: a one-bedroom condo for $1.9 million<\/strong>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If I were a social scientist, I’d do a neat study of why lawsuits involving Big Names come in tight groupings, like buses. But hey I’m not (a social scientist). So I just report ’em: From yesterday’s Daily News: Soros … Continue reading