Hubby lo$es for playing iSpy in divorce
Fifty dollars’ worth of spy gear just cost this guy a fortune
Crocker Coulson, of Brooklyn Heights, forfeited any claim to his estranged wife’s tobacco fortune after bugging her iPhone with cheap software to record confidential meetings with her lawyer and her shrink to gain an advantage in their divorce.
Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Jeffrey Sunshine doled out the “drastic” punishment because of the “unprecedented, contumacious conduct” of the Yale-educated investment consultant.
Sunshine added that the punishment was a signal to other divorcing spouses not to violate attorney-client and doctor-patient confidentiality by playing private eye.
“The readily available and sophis- ticated spyware available in this Internet Age to a spouse intent on wielding power over another spouse presents a new tool of control,” the judge wrote in the 49-page decision made public Thursday.
Coulson, 53, married Anne Resnik, 53 — whose dad, Frank, was CEO of Philip Morris — in 2008. They have 8-year-old twins.
Coulson filed for divorce in 2014. The duo has been duking it out in court ever since, racking up some $2 million in legal fees.
But now the financial part of the divorce case is now over — he gets no alimony nor any of their assets.
Resnik’s attorney, celebrity divorce lawyer Raoul Felder, said only that those assets are “significant.” Coulson didn’t return a call for comment.