Christina Ambers, who has been called the “Heidi Klum of foot models,” is suing her building, 340 East 74th Street, for $10 million, alleging that the board is trying to force her out for marrying one of the building’s doormen.
Christina Ambers filed a $10 million lawsuit in Manhattan state Supreme Court against residents and management of the East 74th Street building known as the Avon House.
According to the reports in the Daily News and New York Post, the building’s staff allegedly refuse to get cabs for the couple and don’t tell them when messengers and packages arrive.
The lawsuit claims her husband, Angel Rotger, lost his job and building employees made her hail her own taxis and retrieve her packages after the couple became romantically involved.
The suit claims residents object to “a Hispanic former porter” living in the building.
The couple married in July.
“I hope that people can understand how awful it is to come home and to then be treated with hostility in a building where I have paid a lot of money to live,” Ambers told the Daily News. “Nobody should have to live this way.”
“The people in this building need to come into the 21st century,” Ambers said. “I fell in love with Angel because he is a sweet, caring man – how dare they look down on us!”
Building lawyer Joe Colbert says the claims have “no merit.”