Billionaire: Toss suit by ex-lover

Lawyers for a Manhattan billionaire being sued by his ex-lover, a former Miss Germany International, are asking the court to follow a British judge’s lead and toss her suit — because they say she is berserk.

Former beauty queen Aline Marie Massel, 31, last year filed a $15 million emotional distress lawsuit against Robert Gibbins, the CEO of Autonomy Capital investment firm, alleging he gave her a venereal disease and failed to follow through with promises to leave his wife and buy Massel an ostrich farm in Uganda.

Gibbins’ attorney says Massel’s accusations are outrageous.

“You don’t give somebody the benefit of the doubt if they’re insane,” lawyer Gerald Lefcourt told Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Barbara Jaffe on Wednesday. “She lied about everything.”

On March 21, Gibbins, 48, sued Massel in London on fraud charges, claiming his jilted ex-lover was seeking to extort him. The court ultimately ruled in Gibbins’ favor.

“Ms. Massel has been found to have lied to and defrauded Mr. Gibbins in a recent British court ruling, and nothing she or her counsel alleges is accurate or truthful,” Jonathan Gasthalter, a spokesman for Gibbins, told the Daily News.

“She has falsely claimed to have been pregnant; falsely claimed to have had abortions; falsely claimed to have gotten HPV from Gibbins, and falsely claimed to be in danger of losing her apartment when she was, in fact, living with her boyfriend,” he said, adding Massel’s suit and her lawyers’ arguments boil down to nothing more than “a shameless effort” to grab money from from Gibbins’ deep pockets.

Gibbins, who met Massel in 2014 at upscale Upper East Side eatery Le Bilboquet, engaged in a two-year romance with the gal pal — whisking her off to Venezuela and also to Brazil on private planes during the weeks after they met, according to the 2017 suit.