Bizarre, hopeless legal crusades

Fringe attorney Roy Den Hollander had built a career out of advocating for men — or, rather, against women — in a series of farfetched, doomed-to-fail lawsuits.

In 2007, he filed a class-action suit in Manhattan federal court against several city nightclubs, claiming that offering women lower prices on ladies’ nights was discriminatory.

The longshot bid included a bid by Hollander to get a female judge removed from the case.

The next year, Hollander took Columbia University to court, claiming that the Ivy was a “bastion of bigotry” that discriminated against men through its Women’s Studies Department.

Hollander was invited onto the morning radio show “Opie and Anthony” to discuss the Columbia case — and wound up suing co-host Jim Norton after the shock jock called him a “whore” and cracked a bestialitythemed joke at his expense. That case was ultimately settled.

In 2011, Hollander took another crack at the ladies’ night suit, this time in Brooklyn.

Two years later, Hollander sued the MTA in Manhattan Supreme Court, arguing that its seven- and 30-day MetroCards are technically only valid for six and 29 days plus some hours because they expire at midnight.

A lawyer who faced off against Hollander in 2003 told The Post he was intelligent but prone to believing in wild conspiracies.

“He was extremely professional and well-read,” said Vik Pawar, who represented an NYPD detective Hollander believed was part of a conspiracy with his ex-wife, her lawyers, “the Russian and Mexican mafia, and some New York City strip clubs.

“His arguments were out of left field and they were absurd but he really believed in them,” Pawar said.