New York Post

Real estate big evicts wife

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HELL hath no fury like a powerful developer scorned. Atlantic Yards builder Bruce Ratner is trying to have his estranged wife, renowned plastic surgeon Pamela Lipkin, evicted from her East 62nd Street office.

Lipkin filed a $1 million lawsuit against Ratner in Manhattan Supreme Court on Monday to keep her office, where she’s worked on celebrity patients such as Demi Moore and Iman.

“The service of the Notice to Quit is a strongarm measure meant to strangle Lipkin both financiall­y and profession­ally with the ultimate goal of gaining leverage over Lipkin in the matrimonia­l action,” her suit says.

Ratner gave her a Jan. 11 deadline to leave the building. “Ratner should not be permitted to threaten Lipkin’s practice and jeopardize her patients,” the suit continues.

Lipkin put up about half of the $7 million purchase price when she bought the eight-unit townhouse at 128 E. 62nd St. with Ratner in 2008, according to court papers. A year later, he convinced her to sell her share to him for tax purposes, with the promise that she could keep practicing out of the office as long as she wanted, The Post’s Julia Marsh reports.

Ratner, who’s worth an estimated $400 million, apparently changed his mind after she filed for divorce in July.

“The matrimonia­l action has become increas- ingly acrimoniou­s,” Lipkin says in the eviction suit. “The distributi­on of Lipkin and Ratner’s property is the subject of the divorce action and there are several hotly contested issues involving multiple properties.”

The couple started dating in 1997 and married in 2008. In addition to the townhouse where Lipkin works, they own an East 78th Street home, a five-bedroom estate in East Hampton, and a 200-acre estate in upstate Ulster County.

Ratner’s attorney Joshua Kopelowitz said, “We look forward to our day in court and are confident that our client will prevail and proceed with the eviction process.”

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