Judge Unimpressed With Madonna’s Housing Lawsuit

Like a salesman . . . ooh.

A no-nonsense state Supreme Court judge said superstar Madonna is no different than a college kid, a jailbird or even a door-to-door peddler when it comes to the scales of justice.

​The singer is suing her 1 W. 64th St. co-op over a strict residency requirement that says her children and domestic servants aren’t allowed inside her $7.3 million unit while she’s not there — even though, Madonna argues, she is on the road a lot.

“Let’s say your client were a traveling salesperson or away in college or serving a brief period in jail. Wouldn’t your client be as protected then as she is now going on tour and spending an inordinate amount of time in hotels?”​ Justice Gerald Lebovits asked Madonna’s lawyer.

“It’s the same principle,” Lebovits said, indicating that the pop star’s lawsuit against her Central Park West building belongs in Housing Court with average New Yorkers, and not in Manhattan Civil Court. Madonna has four children — Lourdes Leon, 20, Rocco Ritchie, 16, David Banda Ritchie, 11, and Mercy James, 10.

The building’s board implemented the new rule in 2014.

“Certainly, such a requirement is ridiculous and impossible for almost any family to comply with, and certainly not someone with plaintiff’s itinerant schedule,” the singer’s April lawsuit argues.

Her attorney, Stuart Shaw, told the judge that he submitted a sworn statement from his client about her jet-setting lifestyle.

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“She has homes all around the world, she travels extensively, she has a house in California, she has a house in Europe,” Shaw said. “She goes on tours, she spends an inordinate amount of time in hotels, yet the place she calls home is 64th Street.”

Madonna may have thought she’d get special treatment from the judge after court officials allowed her to bow out of jury duty in July 2014.

But Justice Lebovits was not impressed.

“There’s a landlord-tenant relationship between your client and the cooperative corporation and they could bring a Housing Court action to evict,” he said.

Shaw argued that his client “should not have to wait to defend an eviction proceeding.”

The building’s attorney, Patrick J. Sweeney, claimed the lawsuit suit should be tossed because Madonna waited too long to file it.

In court papers, he also argued that Madonna cannot “credibly claim she was treated any differently from every other shareholder.”

The judge said he would issue a written decision in the coming weeks.

Source: pagesix.com pagesix.com

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