New York Post

Hubby lo$es for playing iSpy in divorce

- Julia Marsh

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.

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