Potential buyer wants Dulos mansion

FARMINGTON — A potential buyer is interested in the Fotis Dulos mansion, which was just listed for sale on Friday, and items from the home and one of his other properties are being prepared for auction.

Attorney Richard Weinstein confirmed Monday there is a possible buyer for the property at 4 Jefferson Crossing and he expects the sale to be completed in a short amount of time. Weinstein represents Gloria Farber, the mother of Jennifer Dulos who is foreclosing on the property.

Weinstein declined to provide more information about the potential sale.

The 10,000-square-foot home on Jefferson Crossing, a private road developed by Fotis Dulos’ company Fore Group, was listed Friday for $ 1.75 million.

It was listed by Marshall + Ostop Associates of William Ravies, which described the property as “stunning,” adding that there is a “flexible floor plan that combines utility with elegance.” The real estate agents did not immediately respond Monday about the details on the potential sale.

Items left in the home and at 80 Mountain Spring Road, another Farmington property owned by the Fore Group, will be auctioned off on Nov. 21, according to Ed Nadeau, president of Nadeau’s Auction Gallery, a Windsor company that auctions estate items.

The homes were sparsely furnished when the gallery was hired to appraise the value of the remaining items, Nadeau said.

“Neither were full of wonderful things,” he said.

But there were some items of value that will go on the auction block along with hundreds of other pieces from other estates, Nadeau said. His company does not have permission to identify the pieces as coming from the “estate of Fotis Dulos” during the auction, Nadeau said.

“We’d normally want to do that,” Nadeau said. “Some people come by just to get a piece of that person. Maybe they knew them. It happens in ordinary auctions not just when the circumstances are infamous or notorious.”

Among the Fotis Dulos items the gallery will auction off are several high-end snow and water skis, some “wonderful” outdoor furniture, Herman Miller office chairs, an Italian designer Lord Norman Foster Tecno Mod Nomos glass top table with a chrome base, an architectural printer, and a Peloton indoor exercise bike that is likely worth a few thousand dollars, Nadeau said. Oriental rugs from the estate will be sold during a separate auction.

Potential buyers can call in a bid, drop off a bid or attend the auction in person, Nadeau said.

It’s not the first time the company has handled an estate that has a notorious reputation, he said. The gallery auctioned off items from the home where John Cotter Jr., son of a retired judge who killed his wife and children before taking his own life in the late 1980s, he said.

Fotis Dulos was facing murder, kidnapping and other charges in the death and disappearance of his estranged wife when he died from an apparent suicide in January. He was found unresponsive in the garage of the Jefferson Crossing home and died two days later at a New York hospital.

Jennifer Dulos vanished in May 2019 and her body has not been found. Thhe state’s chief medical examiner said she was the “victim of a serious physical assault” whose injuries were so severe that she would not have survived without immediate medical attention.

Farber is the primary creditor of the Fotis Dulos estate, which owes her nearly $ 2 million from a lawsuit over unpaid business loans her family made to Fore Group. She foreclosed on the property earlier this year.

Weinstein contends in court papers that the property is actually worth $ 2.5 million. He is seeking the difference from the value and the sale price from the estate.