Billionaire’s Wife Sues N.Y. Law Firm Over Hate-Mail Claim

  • Perlmutter accused Kasowitz firm tied to spat with neighbor
  • Suit tied to letters depicting neighbor as Nazi, sex-offender
Donald Trump hands his pen to Isaac Perlmutter after signing an Executive Order in 2017. Laura Perlmutter stands next to her husband at second right.  Photographer: Andrew Harnik/AP Photo
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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.