The wife of billionaire Isaac Perlmutter sued the well-known New York law firm Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP for what she called frivolous claims made against the couple in their decade-long spat with a neighbor at a swanky Florida condominium complex.
Attorneys at the law firm -- founded by prominent litigator Marc Kasowitz -- spent years unsuccessfully trying to prove Laura Perlmutter and her husband, head of Walt Disney’s Marvel unit, used a hate-mail campaign to tarnish the reputation of millionaire Canadian businessman Harold Peerenboom in a feud over tennis courts, according to the lawsuit.
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The escalating legal fight pits two prominent supporters of former President Donald Trump against each other. Isaac Perlmutter has been identified as one of Trump’s financial backers while Kasowitz has defended Trump in everything from defamation suits to his impeachment proceedings.
The Perlutters and Peerenboom have condos in Sloan’s Curve, an exclusive waterfront complex near Trump’s Mar-A-Lago mansion in Palm Beach, Florida. A two-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bath unit at Sloan’s Curve recently listed for $7.5 million. The feud was sparked in 2011 by a dispute over management of the complex’s tennis center. It spiraled into claims and counterclaims about the hate-mail campaign against Peerenboom over a five-year period.
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