Senior says ‘sneaky’ thespian lover stole $118G
A STRUGGLING actress mooched off her elderly boyfriend for years — then swiped over $100,000 from his safe deposit box once he became ill, a new lawsuit charges.
Eugene Boshes, 82, alleges in a suit filed Wednesday in Manhattan Supreme Court that he gave as much as $7,000 per month to Rebecca (Becky) Barker for 10 years while she “attempted to kindle an acting career in New York City.”
“Bottom line was, she betrayed me. She took all the money I ever had. That’s stealing,” Boshes said of his 72-year-old former flame.
He added that Barker, who lives on the Upper West Side and appeared in a handful of commercials, was “a sneaky lady.”
Barker declined to delve into the details of her relationship with Boshes and denied taking any of his money.
“If you want to know about him, read my book, ‘Stretch Marks in the Moonlight,’ ” she told the Daily News, referring to a self-published novel.
She described her book as “my irreverent, poignant and unabashed memoir of my survival as an only child, utterly pissed at my father’s gall to drop dead in front of me in 1954 . . . leaving me to raise my maudlin, washed-up, drunken mother — Jane Trott — a former child star in vaudeville.”
The suit says that during the last five years Boshes — a real estate broker and developer now living in Norwalk, Conn. — faced health problems, including prostate cancer and knee replacement surgery.
As a result, he began stashing cash in a safe deposit box in case of an unexpected emergency — an amount that totaled $118,000. He made Barker a signatory on the deposit box so that she could access the money should he become “incapacitated,” the papers read.
On Dec. 15, their relationship ended — just two weeks after Boshes’ knee replacement surgery. He recalled saying he was going to go for a walk to help with his recovery, to which Barker said: “Don’t come back!”
“I said, ‘F--- you!’ I left . . . with just the clothes on my back,” Boshes said.
He alleges that Barker took money from the safe deposit box that same day — though she also sent him “a series of impassioned texts” trying to save the relationship, according to the suit.
“She’s essentially a controlling, sick person. Why I put up with it, God only knows,” Boshes said. “Money aside, hey, I’m happy. I would just like to get that money back.”
Boshes says cops declined to pursue the theft. His suit seeks an order she return the cash.
Barker’s attorney, George Graf, said the suit was without merit.
“I’m not acknowledging any money was taken. I’m not acknowledging anything. When they want to make a movie out of this, call me,” Barker said. HE MIGHT AS WELL have been asking them to sign his arrest warrants.
A Brooklyn CVS security guard who allegedly molested female shoplifting suspects, and had them sign agreements promising to keep quiet, was busted again Wednesday night — after three of those agreements led cops to find more of his victims, police said.
Jose Ramos, 29, was first busted last week, accused of sexually abusing a 28-year-old woman he caught stealing from the CVS at Ditmas Ave. near E. Fourth St. in Ditmas Park March 15. Ramos pulled the woman aside and gave her an ultimatum — take off her pants and let him photograph and grope her, or go to jail, cops said.
He then made her “sign a form disclosing that she won’t tell police what happened,” prosecutors said. Detectives found three similar agreements in his backpack — signed by three women he fondled at a CVS in Bensonhurst, where he also worked, police said.