Jill: It just ain’t Rite
BEING one of NYC’s ladies who lunch isn’t all Champagne, tea sandwiches and calling Carole Radziwill a bitch. Page Six has learned that racehorse-owning, Hamptons-summer-ing Jill Zarin is locked in a knock-down, drag-out battle over ownership of an Ohio strip mall pharmacy with sweeping views of a Wendy’s. It seems that as well as leaving her, one imagines, swathes of diamonds and strings of pearls, Zarin’s late husband, Bobby, bought her — presumably in a romantic outburst — more than one Rite Aid store. We’re told Bobby forked over $650,000 for the location in question. But — according to court papers — a $1,695,000 loan on the Canton drugstore came due right at the beginning of the pandemic. Court papers claim that due to a bungling (since fired) property manager, nobody mentioned this to Jill, and so a credit union took over the Rite Aid and has since been collecting rent. Now she says she’s not being given the proper opportunity to pay off the debt and take back her beloved Rite Aid. So the former “Real Housewives” star is now entrenched in a deliriously unglamorous fight to get it back in her name. “I have been caused to expend thousands of dollars on counsel to resolve what should be a routine matter,” Jill complained in an affidavit seen by Page Six. She declined to comment. Lawyers for the lender and a court-appointed receiver didn’t immediately get back to us.