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Dec 7, 2007 7:43 pm US/Central
Co-Op Board To Madonna: You Own Enough
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Madonna, who already owns a large apartment in the building, is asking the court to let the sale go through and award her legal fees, according to a notice filed Wednesday in Manhattan's state Supreme Court.
AP
Madonna is in a clash with her co-op board. The Material Girl is suing
after she wasn't allowed to buy another apartment in her building.
The
pop icon claims in court papers that the co-op's board of directors
wrongfully blocked her purchase of the seventh-floor apartment at 1 W.
64th St. on the Upper West Side.
Madonna, who already owns a
large apartment in the building, is asking the court to let the sale go
through and award her legal fees, according to a notice filed Wednesday
in Manhattan's state Supreme Court.
The 49-year-old singer
moved into the building after she was rejected by the board at the
ritzy San Remo co-op in 1985 -- presently home to U2 frontman Bono.
The residents of Harperley Hall know her as a friendly, if occasionally distant, neighbor.
She's
viewed as a busy mom, who travels a great deal and is now suing the
co-op board for the right to buy a fourth unit in the building and
connect it to her already sprawling two-story apartment
Some neighbors think it might be too much.
"If
you got one tenant who's got so many more shares and she's not here a
lot, that's also a concern," neighbor Stacy McLaughlin said.
Oddly,
many of Madonna's opponents in this matter are relative newcomers to
the building. Those who've known the pop icon the longest tend to side
with her. A doctor who has an office in the building says it's an
uncomfortable situation.
"I wouldn't want to be on the co-op board. Perhaps she's being a bit too insatiable," Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler said.
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