Mayoral melee in Hamptons

A Hamptons mayor is being booted out of his home — and a political rival says it’s elaborate payback over a recent election.

After bad blood boiled between new Southampton mayor Jesse Warren and wealthy local poobah Mark Epley, Epley purchased Warren’s pad from Citibank executive Brandt Portugal.

And now — days after Epley’s son, Zach, was beaten to a coveted Village Board seat by candidates backed by Warren — Mark has handed Warren paperwork saying that he won’t renew his lease when it expires at the end of the month.

Zach told local news site 27east that Warren

“dug his own grave on that one.” He accused Warren of using very aggressive campaigning tactics during the election.

“It’s about how nasty he was during the election,” Zach said, “Why are we gonna keep somebody on a property that was so awful to us?”

(Warren didn’t comment to 27east on his behavior while campaigning.)

Back in July, when the property deal was in the works, Warren told The Post he feared it was a ploy to remove him from office, since the mayor must be a resident of the village. But Mark insisted to Page Six on Friday that the heave-ho is not political.

“No matter what the results of the election were, we were not going to renew,” he told us, saying that Warren wanted the ability to sublease and didn’t want Epley to have access to the property.

As for his son’s comments, Epley said Zach “is not an owner of the property.” Zach had previously told The Post that the purchase was purely about business — and nothing to do with the feud.

“We own a few properties on Long Island, and this was just an opportunity that came up,” he said.

Warren has leased the two-bedroom pad for five years.