Theroux: My neighbor has me scared for my family’s safety
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Jennifer Aniston’s actor hubby is asking a judge to block his nosy neighbor from trespassing onto the deck of his Greenwich Village apartment, claiming the man’s obsessive behavior has caused the “Leftovers” star to fear for his family’s safety.
Justin Theroux sued attorney Norman Resnicow, his downstairs neighbor at 71 Washington Pl., in May for harassment. The two have been fighting over the $1 million renovation of Theroux’s pad since 2015.
The building brouhaha went from bad to worse in October after Resnicow invited the Daily Mail to peek through his celebrity neighbor’s windows and at his basement storage bin for a feature called “Here’s Justin junk!” spurring Theroux to install security cameras, the new filing says.
“I was quite disturbed and unsettled by this episode,” Theroux says in the Manhattan Supreme Court filing.
“I had always considered my apartment a sanctuary to which my family and friends could retreat. I realized that by bringing third parties into the storage area and up to the back door and windows of my apartment, Mr. Resnicow was trying to make me feel unsafe in my own home,” he adds.
The surveillance equipment allegedly caught Resnicow sneaking onto Theroux’s deck four times in the past three months.
“I understand that, as neighbors living in a small New York City co-op, there is a certain degree of interconnectedness,” Theroux says in court papers.
“But Mr. Resnicow is so far beyond the realm of reasonable neighborly behavior that I can no longer tolerate it,” he says.
On the different occasions the 70-year-old attorney — once with a baseball cap pulled low over his eyes and then with a fedora obscuring his face — measured Theroux’s stairs, hid an unidentified black object under a tarp and took notes on a legal pad, according to court papers.
Theroux believes Resnicow may be trying to gather evidence related to a boundary dispute over their adjoining terraces.
But, he says, he’s worried about the lawyer’s “compulsive” behavior.
“Mr. Resnicow has demonstrated a bizarre, troubling obsession with my life and my property,” Theroux says in the new Manhattan Supreme Court filing.
“These serial trespasses raise the concerns of myself and my family regarding our privacy and safety in our own home,” he says.
Resnicow declined to comment on the trespassing allegations.
But he said, “everything I’ve done has been proper in order to deal with the situation with the leaks that come form his portion of the terrace into my apartment.”
Resnicow said the leaks have “resulted in my having to live with mold in my apartment for almost a year.”