New York Post

HE’S ‘ICED’ OUT

Jeweler selling apt. over ‘slay son’ furor

- By REBECCA ROSENBERG, SARAH TREFETHEN and BRUCE GOLDING Additional reporting Priscilla DeGregory by rrosenberg@nypost.com

Jeweler-to-the-stars Jeffrey Rackover is trying to sell his Upper East Side apartment to escape neighbors furious that his surrogate son and a pal allegedly murdered a man inside the building, The Post has learned.

Rackover (inset) has been ostracized by fellow residents of the East 59th Street co-op tower since last year’s grisly slaying — and an April visit by NYPD detectives only hardened their hatred, sources said.

“He should sell. He has enough going on,” one neighbor said.

Rackover — who famously helped President Trump pick out the engagement ring he gave wife Melania — is offering his 32nd-floor, two-bedroom, three-bathroom apartment for just shy of $2.5 million.

The decor is “very Liberacees­que,” said a source who saw it during a recent openhouse viewing at the Grand Sutton building.

“You walk in and there are these two tall mirrors,” framed in dark wood and Louis Vuitton fabric, the source said.

“He has a Louis Vuitton throw on the bed. He’s got a crystal chandelier over the dining-room table. In the liv- ing room, there are built-in couches with fur pillows.”

The asking price represents a 10 percent discount from what Rackover was seeking when he listed the place shortly before Joey Comunale, 26, was killed in a fourth-floor apartment occupied by James Rackover, 25, on Nov. 13.

Jeffrey Rackover — who authoritie­s have said was paying the rent for James — took his apartment off the market the next month, according to online listings.

James Rackover and Larry Dillione, 28, were charged with second-degree murder after Dillione allegedly confessed to knocking out Comunale and claimed that James strangled and stabbed him after they began arguing over cigarettes while partying together.

The body of Comunale, a Hofstra grad, was found three days later in a shallow grave in Oceanport, NJ.

The younger Rackover, an ex-con from Florida, changed his last name from Beaudoin after meeting Jeffrey Rackover at a health club about four years ago, sources have said.

Jeffrey Rackover didn’t return messages, and a doorman said he wasn’t home on Monday.

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