Marisa Tomei’s parents file $10 million suit against Sean Lennon, alleging his tree is damaging their Greenwich Village home
In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Gary and Addie Tomei said the 60-foot-high ailanthus tree in Sean Lennon’s front yard on W. 13th St. is growing into the concrete foundation of their townhouse and into their front stoop, breaking and displacing the railing.
It has “compromised the basement wall and interior ... (causing) irreparable damage to the structural integrity of the building,” according to court papers.
The Tomeis said they have been trying to get Lennon, 39, to address the problem for a year, but court papers said he has just let it be.
“He refuses to do anything. He’s owned it for six years and neglected it. I like him personally but he’s stubborn and he has a lawyer who is very belligerent," Gary Tomei said in an interview at his home.
Lennon’s limited liability corporation purchased the townhouse in 2008 for $9.5 million. City records show the corporation is based at the Dakota, where his mother, Yoko Ono, still lives.
“Our clients fear that the entire front brick facade of their building is being compromised and may become damaged as a result of this shifting of the stoop and columns,” the Tomei’s lawyer, Gary Walters, wrote to Lennon last September. The letter is an exhibit in court documents.
Source:NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
