An Emmy-award successful journalist claims in a lawsuit her $6 million tropical mansion was offered out from below her by a sleazy auctioneer.
Cathleen Trigg-Jones, who launched iWomanTV and received an Emmy in 2003 for schooling reporting whereas at WWOR in New York Metropolis, slammed Concierge Auctions in Florida for what she referred to as “blatant misogyny,” in accordance with a $10 million lawsuit filed in Manhattan Federal Court docket.
Trigg-Jones, 57, and her physician husband Michael Jones purchased the four-bedroom, four-bath beachfront townhouse in unique Bahia Seashore Resort & Golf Membership simply exterior San Juan in 2014.
The 4-204-square-foot property options cathedral ceilings, French doorways, a number of walk-in closets and a personal plunge pool, in accordance with an actual property itemizing which pegs the worth of the property at $5.9 million.
Michael Jones contacted Concierge about promoting the property however Trigg-Jones alleged she had fast doubts.
“Concierge appeared to Mrs. Jones to be operating a rip-off,” she stated within the Manhattan Federal Court docket lawsuit, including the Florida-based outfit seems to promote “to Concierge’s personal cabal of bidders, via non-market auctions, for quantities considerably lower than a good market worth.”
“Apparently, this auctioneer doesn’t suppose a girl ought to have the appropriate to assessment a contract separate and other than her husband,” Trigg-Jones stated within the authorized submitting.
Despite the fact that Michael Jones notified the public sale firm that his spouse was reviewing the settlement with an lawyer and had not signed, Concierge allegedly held an public sale in March anyway, “promoting” the house for $4.2 million, in accordance with the grievance and Trigg-Jones’ lawyer.
Then it allegedly ruined her rep by having its brokers inform neighbors and actual property professionals she reneged on the deal, she claimed within the swimsuit.
Trigg-Jones “by no means entered into an settlement with Concierge for the sale of her property,” she stated within the lawsuit.
The “purported purchaser,” hedge funder Michael Nachmani, “has threatened to sue Mrs. Jones and is demanding that she shut on the purported public sale sale,” she stated within the lawsuit.
She desires a decide “to step in to make clear her rights and to award her injury ensuing from the hurt to her repute which the public sale firm has already triggered and continues to trigger.”
“I’ve devoted my life and profession to preventing for ladies’s rights and equality. When Concierge Auctions tried to bypass me, and promote my residence with out my signature, my consent, or authorized assessment, I used to be shocked,” Trigg-Jones stated in a press release.
“Whilst an equal proprietor, I used to be handled as if my voice and my rights don’t matter. This isn’t simply unlawful, it’s unethical — misogyny, plain and easy, and it’s an insult to each lady who’s ever needed to battle for respect.”
Nachmani declined remark.
In response to a request for remark, Concierge claimed Michael Jones had signed an public sale settlement and given his permission to launch the public sale.
Trigg-Jones’ accusations are an “deliberately incomplete false and deceptive narrative,” Concierge alleged.
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