Unfortunately she isn’t the first wealthy wife to be treated this way and we’re sure she won’t be the last.
According
to NY Post reports: Sheri
Astrachan slapped her estranged real-estate-exec hubby, Matthew, with a $20
million defamation suit after he allegedly cut off her access to the tony Old
Westbury Golf & Country Club and various credit cards.
The
move triggered a golf-club rule that Sheri’s name — and even the amount of her
debt — be listed in its public places, including in its men’s and women’s
locker rooms, “proclaiming for all to see that she had not paid her bills to
the club,” says the spurned wife’s Manhattan Supreme Court suit.
“This
has had the intended effect of falsely making it appear to the Old Westbury
Club and its constituent members, who are also neighbors and friends of
[Sheri], that [she] is without the economic resources and assets to maintain
pay for membership privileges,” according to court papers filed by her lawyer
father, Jeffrey L. Rosenberg.
Sheri,
42, says her 18-year marriage to Matthew, 49, a millionaire and JLL vice
president, imploded after she and her daughters found out that he was
two-timing her with “one or more sales girls in New York City shops,” according
to the suit.
She
promptly kicked him out of their $4.75 million home, the suit says.
Sheri
say Matthew’s tactic — stopping the payment of her dues to the club and cutting
off her access to credit cards — was waging “economic and emotional warfare” on
the family, according to the suit.
She
argues in the suit that she deserves to maintain the level of luxury she
enjoyed while happily married.
She
lists the former couple’s extravagances, including a $150,000 Maserati,
$100,000 in yearly vacations, the Old Westbury home, golf-club membership,
$150,000 for a summer rental in the Hamptons, three housekeepers and nannies,
and leases on an S550 Mercedes and Cadillac Escalade.
Matthew
Astrachan, a commercial real-estate broker at JLL, previously worked for
Cushman & Wakefield and rakes in $4 million a year.
His
marquee-name clients include Oppenheimer & Co., Calvin Klein, AXA Financial
and the Discovery Channel.
Matthew’s
lawyer, Steven Schlesinger, told The Post, “We don’t comment on frivolous
litigation except to say that we intend to move to have the lawyer sanctioned.”
The
couple has three daughters. Matthew filed for divorce in Nassau County in 2013.
The litigation is still pending.
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