Billionaire donated a house in New York with rats and mold for $ 65000 per month

Rodents, sewage and poisonous mold came as a surprise to the couple who wished to rent a six-story mansion for $ 65 000 per month on the Upper East Side.

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Real estate developer Joseph Chetritz and his wife Nancy faced this horror after they signed a tenancy agreement for an almost uninhabitable six-story mansion on 5 E. 64th St.

The pair filed a lawsuit against billionaire homeowner, Swedish hedge fund manager Thomas Sandell, in the Supreme Court of Manhattan this week.

When the Chetritz family relocated to the mansion in August 2016, they were shocked to see the furnished house worth $ 30 million, once owned by designer Gianni Versace, in a “terribly dirty state,” their suit says.

The famous townhouse was full of rats, had "widespread problems with water supply" and mold, according to court documents.

Sandell left the boxes with personal items in the closets, and the furniture literally fell apart. The dining table actually fell during the meal.

The tenant broker described the living conditions in an e-mail in October of the 2017 of the year that was attached to the suit.

“Nancy Chetritz asked me to stop by the house last night to see for myself the place where they needed to live—to say it was a nightmare would be an understatement,” her broker wrote.

Chetritz is filing a lawsuit in the amount of $ 1 million for "a demonstrated model of meaningless and deliberate disregard for the health and safety of the plaintiff and his family."

Meanwhile, the billionaire's lawyer, Lorraine Nadel, said that Chetritz’s claims "absolutely do not deserve attention."

“We look forward to their rebuttal in court,” Nadel said.

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