⏩ INSIDE: Jennifer Dulos’ mother files to foreclose on Fotis Dulos’ home.
FARMINGTON — The trust established by attorneys for Jennifer Dulos’ mother has filed to foreclose on the home where Fotis Dulos has been living and stopped paying the mortgage nearly a year ago.
Gloria Farber, who is also suing her soninlaw for $2.5 million in unpaid loans, had been making payments on the Farmington home’s $2.3 million mortgage since Fotis Dulos stopped paying in November 2018, according to attorney Richard Weinstein, who is representing her in the civil lawsuits.
The foreclosure action filed Tuesday by Weinstein and a trustee for a trust set up to deal with the various financial issues the family has with Fotis Dulos are demanding he pay the balance or get out of the house. They are asking a judge to require Fotis Dulos to pay legal fees and costs associated with the foreclosure action.
The Farber family put up as collateral $2.3 million in securities and cash to secure a mortgage from BNY Mellon in 2012, allowing Jennifer and Fotis Dulos to own the 15,000squarefoot home at 4 Jefferson Crossing, Weinstein said Wednesday.
Fotis Dulos, 52, had been living in the home with his girlfriend, Michelle Troconis, 44, and her daughter after Jennifer Dulos moved to New Canaan with their five children when she filed for divorce in 2017.
When Fotis Dulos stopped paying the mortgage last November, Weinstein said Farber picked up the payments to avoid having BNY Mellon take the family’s securities that were put up as collateral.
Farber bought the mortgage from BNY Mellon in July after Fotis Dulos and Troconis were charged in the disappearance of her daughter. The trust is now foreclosing on the home to get Fotis Dulos off the property, court papers said.
A heating and air condition company that is suing Fotis Dulos for an unpaid balance of about $25,000 has also filed a lien against the property, the court papers said.
The company did work for Fotis Dulos on one of the Farmington real estate properties he was hoping to sell, according to a lawsuit filed earlier this year by Glasco Heating & Air Conditioning. In addition, Fotis Dulos owes the town of Farmington $21,000 in unpaid property taxes for 2018, the foreclosure documents said.
The sixbedroom home, which has been on the market for more than a year and is listed at $4.35 million, was part of a private development built by Fotis Dulos’ real estate company, Fore Group. The realtor has said the attention of the highprofile investigation into the May 24 disappearance of Jennifer Dulos has had an effect on the sale of the home, which has been the target of numerous law enforcement searches.
Fotis Dulos has remained in the home while out on bail on charges related to his wife’s disappearance.
Fotis Dulos will be arraigned Thursday in state Superior Court in Norwalk on the new tampering with evidence charge. He is scheduled to appear for his next pretrial hearing Friday in Stamford.
Troconis will be arraigned Sept. 18 in Norwalk on the new charge and will appear for a pretrial hearing Sept. 20 in Stamford.