‘Snooper’ trooper
Jen’s hub vs. nabe
Jennifer Aniston’s actor hubby, Justin Theroux, wants a judge to block his nosy neighbor from trespassing onto the deck of the couple’s Greenwich Village apartment, claiming the man’s obsession has the “Leftovers” star fearing for his family’s safety.
Theroux (top inset) sued Norman Resnicow, his downstairs neighbor at 71 Washington Place, for harassment in May. The two have been fighting over the renovation of Theroux’s pad since 2015.
The feud went from bad to worse in October after Resnicow invited the Daily Mail to peek through his celebrity neighbor’s windows and at his basement storage bin for a feature called “Here’s Justin’s junk!” spurring Theroux to install security cameras, according to the new filing.
“I was quite disturbed and unsettled by this episode,” Theroux says in Manhattan Supreme Court papers.
“I had always considered my apartment a sanctuary to which my family and friends could retreat. I realized that by bringing third parties into the storage area and up to the back door and windows of my apartment, Mr. Resnicow was trying to make me feel unsafe in my own home,” he adds.
The surveillance equipment allegedly caught Resnicow (bottom inset) sneaking onto Theroux’s deck four times in the past three months.
“I understand that, as neighbors living in a small New York City co-op, there is a certain degree of interconnectedness,” Theroux says. “But Mr. Resnicow is so far beyond the realm of reasonable neighborly behavior that I can no longer tolerate it.”
On different occasions the 70-yearold attorney measured Theroux’s stairs, hid an unidentified black object under a tarp and took notes on a legal pad, according to court papers.
Theroux believes Resnicow may be trying to gather evidence related to a boundary dispute over their adjoining terraces.
Resnicow declined to comment on the trespassing allegations but said, “Everything I’ve done has been proper in order to deal with the situation with the leaks that come from his portion of the terrace into my apartment.”