The ransacking of Jon Gosselin’s Upper West Side apartment was nothing more than a “huge, huge publicity stunt,” his ex-girlfriend’s lawyer told the Post yesterday.
And cops are beginning to wonder if the reality TV star’s story has any relation to reality.
Police noted that reporters began arriving at the precinct house even before they had a chance to interview Gosselin about the destruction of his home, sources said.
“How did they know so quickly? No cop could have tipped them — it was too quick,” a source said. “Cops only just found out and they [the media] were already set up outside.”
The gossip site TMZ may have been called even before the police were notified, the source said.
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Gosselin contends he arrived Saturday to discover his West 72nd Street apartment torn to shreds and a nasty note from the ex, Hailey Glassman, stabbed to their dresser with a butcher knife.
Glassman told police she wrote the note, in which she described the father of eight as a “lowlife,” but insisted she did not punctuate it with the blade, the source said.
She also swears she did not tear apart his clothing, smash his family’s 100-year-old Ming-style vase, or rip off his electronics.
“To me it appears to be a huge, huge publicity stunt,” Glassman’s lawyer, Anand Ahuja, said. “There was nothing taken she wasn’t entitled to.”
Gosselin told her, “I am going to be evicted, so take with you whatever you want to take,” Ahuja said.
The reality star, who recently divorced his wife and “Jon and Kate Plus Eight” co-star, Kate, denies that the trashing was a stunt and all but points the finger at Glassman.
“It’s extremely perplexing and incredulous that she would acknowledge that she wrote the note that was speared with a butcher’s knife . . . and yet she disclaims that she trashed the apartment,” said Gosselin’s lawyer, Mark Heller.
Gosselin owed Glassman thousands of dollars in back rent on the apartment, which they shared, sources said.