HOTEL vs. ‘BUM RAPPER’

Suit rips ‘B.I.G. liar’

You’d think the name would have been a dead giveaway.

A con man checked into Manhattan’s trendy Mondrian Park Avenue hotel under the name Biggie Smalls and stayed in one of its rooms for three months before anyone picked up on the scheme, a new lawsuit charges.

Clayton Jacobs, 48, of Aventura, Fla., allegedly racked up more than $47,000 in bills at the 189room Park Avenue South hotel, where rooms start at $200 a night and cocktails go for $19.

Jacobs lived it up at the hotel using the name of the late rapper (above), also known as the Notorious B.I.G., but the scheme came crashing down when American Express started denying his credit-card charges after three months, according to the Manhattan Supreme Court suit, filed against Jacobs by the hotel.

Even then, it took another month for the hotel to move on getting rid of him, according to court papers.

Hotel employees apparently didn’t think twice about the fake name, even though the actual Biggie Smalls, whose real name was Christopher Wallace, was killed in a drive-by shooting in LA in 1997.

A waitress told The Post on Sunday that she recalled seeing a “Biggie Smalls” on a list of hotel guests but didn’t make the connection to the Brooklyn-born rap legend.

“Oh, my God. I had no idea,” she said when told of the alleged scam. “How does someone get away with that?” Jacobs lived at the hotel from November 2017 through February 2018, according to the suit.

He racked up a total of $47,197.95 in room charges and other fees. The suit does not detail the charges but says he swiped his card 24 times in amounts ranging from $105.60 to $7,920.27.

The 20-story hotel has a rooftop lounge with views of Park Avenue South and East 30th Street. The 15thfloor bar serves costly cocktails, including the “Fresh AF,” and $750 bottles of Veuve Clicquot Brut.

A lawyer for the Mondrian, part of an international chain, did not return messages seeking comment.

Jacobs also did not return calls. There were no records of any criminal complaints against him for the alleged scam.