A Manhattan socialite has been accused of forcing her aging shipping-magnate husband into changing their prenuptial agreement so she could get her hands on US$8.4million before he dies.
The New York Post reports that a civil lawsuit filed in May says that socialite Antonia Kotovos Milonas, 62, used a variety of methods, including "threats, abuse and undue influence" to make her 88-year-old husband, Spiros Milonas, hand over the money which rightfully belongs to Spiros' daughters from his first marriage and his grandchildren.
The suit says that Antonia - Spiros' second wife - is "disgracefully just waiting for Spiros to die" and, in the meantime, trying to finagle as much money as she can from her elderly husband.
The money in question, the lawsuit claims, is part of the inheritance belonging to Spiros' daughters, Sofia Dingle and Claire Milonas.
Spiros, who heads up Ionian Management, and Antonia created the real estate company Axia in order to covert an Upper East Side apartment building into luxury condominiums.
In 2015 and 2016, the couple - through Axia - received loans totaling US$8.4million from trusts that Spiros and his daughters controlled, enabling Spiros and Antonia to develop the apartment building at lower interest rates and sans mortgage taxes, the Milonas family's attorney Judd Berstein told the New York Post.
Not long after receiving the loans, the lawsuit alleges that Antonia tried to throw Spiros out of their shared Manhattan apartment by having their housekeeper pack up all of Spiros' possessions.
She eventually relented, allowing Spiros to stay in the apartment only after he consented to forgive the trust's loan, the lawsuit claims.
Despite this, the lawsuit says Antonia continues to yell and act 'abusively towards Spiros.'
Spiros is "the subject of the worst elder abuse," Burstein said.
Burstein maintains that Spiros is mentally competent enough to have filed the lawsuit himself.
The lawsuit is asking for at least $10million in damages for Spiros.