Ex remains – 11 years after split
A Manhattan woman is refusing to move out of the apartment she bought with her ex-fiancée — 11 years after they broke up, according to a new lawsuit.
Lars Magnusson filed court papers against his former sweetheart, Alice McCarney, on Thursday, demanding she cough up the cash for Magnusson’s half of the Yorkville co-op that he has been barred from entering for years.
Magnusson — a Swedish shooting instructor who now runs a pheasant-hunting estate in rural Idaho — says he and McCarney, a UK-born hair colorist, bought a co-op at 345 E. 93rd St. in 2005 shortly after they got engaged.
He claims he spent a year living there alone while fixing up the place, but their relationship began to fall apart and he moved out in March 2006. She then moved in.
In 2007, they called off the engagement and McCarney agreed to buy out Magnusson’s 50 percent interest in the one-bedroom, he claims.
But over the next 11 years, she has failed to “secure the financing for such a purchase” or engage with his “patient, good-faith and ongoing efforts” to negotiate an agreement, the suit alleges.
Magnusson says he asked to be able to use the residence for six months of the year — but he’s not even allowed to drop by because McCarney has removed his name “from the doorman’s list of persons admissible to the building,” the suit says.
And while McCarney has been covering all the mortgage, maintenance, tax and other costs on the unit since the split, Magnusson claims she has asked him to reimburse her for half of those bills.
Magnusson wants a judge to force her to sell and give him his cut. One-bedrooms in the 32story building have recently been sold for $567,000 to $725,000.
Reached at her Upper East Side salon, Alice Hair, on Thursday, McCarney said only that she “just found out about the lawsuit and thought everything was settled,” but couldn’t comment further.
After the breakup, Magnusson married a graphic designer named Jennifer in 2008, according to an article on the couple in Garden & Gun magazine.
They run Blixt & Co., a Britishstyle hunting property outside Driggs, Idaho, where clients are expected to drape themselves in “tweeds, wools and earthen colors” rather than camouflage.