New York Post

CYNDI’S SON IS NO FUN

Noise vexes neighbors

- By JOYCE COHEN, JACK MORPHET and EMILY CRANE

Cyndi Lauper’s troubled son could get the boot from his luxury Manhattan digs for being the neighbor from hell with thumping music, late-night screaming and weed stench, court papers allege.

Declyn “Dex” Lauper-Thornton’s landlord lodged an eviction petition last month to try to boot the 26year-old rapper from his $7,200-amonth apartment in a glassy high-rise building in the Financial District, according to the New York County Civil Court filing.

Lauper-Thornton (inset)

— the only son of music icon Cyndi and her “Law & Order” TV actor hubby David Thornton — has allegedly violated a slew of lease rules since he moved into the posh one-bedroom pad with postcard views in October.

“I never had any problems with any of the neighbors before,” a former neighbor told The Post on Friday.

“Then a new tenant moved [in] . . . and immediatel­y there was very loud music at the most bizarre times, like 3 a.m. or 7 a.m. — it felt like there was a nightclub right behind my wall,” the man said, referring to Lauper-Thornton’s apartment at the 19 Dutch St. building.

A source added that the day after a tenant confronted Lauper-Thornton about a particular­ly wild night, the former neighbor found a bullet in the hallway near his apartment — and decided to move out of his home shortly after.

Lauper-Thornton was previously arrested twice — for an illegal gun in Harlem in February and for alleged possession of a stolen Mercedes in Hamilton Heights, Manhattan, in July 2022.

The night before his gun bust, the son of the “True Colors” and “Time After Time” singer walked into his building’s management office “holding a marijuana blunt and looking visually inebriated” to complain about being sent an email, court papers charge.

“If you don’t fix the email, I will come back with people and have everyone’s face broken,” Lauper-Thornton allegedly threatened. “I will break your legs. I have friends and an uncle that will f--k you up. Don’t play with me because I will bring someone with me and tear this whole place up.”

Other frightened tenants reported him to building management after hearing constant screaming coming from his apartment.

A flurry of complaints have also piled up against Lauper-Thornton over the smell of cigarette and marijuana smoke allegedly wafting from his apartment — despite the building having a clear no-smoking policy.

After residents started seeking concession­s to make up for Lauper Thornton’s alleged bad behavior, the landlord served him with eviction papers.

Lauper-Thornton’s attorney, Darryl Vernon, said, “We are talking about ways to resolve the situation.”

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