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CUCKOLD ‘SORE’ AT HIS WIFE

A Manhattan lawyer is suing his wife, her lover and her father, claiming she gave him a venereal disease she contracted during an affair.

Frederick Tanne, 48, a senior partner at Kirkland & Ellis, says he discovered his wife’s infidelity when he stumbled upon her herpes-treatment prescription in their medicine cabinet.

Tanne alleges that his wife, Amy, has had numerous extramarital affairs – the most recent with Robert Stockel, an accountant from Westchester who he says knowingly transferred the virus to his wife around March 2008, according to the lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court last week.

When Amy Tanne, 46, who took care of the couple’s teenage kids while her husband worked, discovered she was infected, she turned to her father, Samuel Messing, a doctor who prescribed her Valtrex, according to court records.

Messing was also Frederick Tanne’s doctor but conspired with Amy Tanne to hide the infidelity and the subsequent infection, the suit charges.

Messing denied that his daughter was infected.

“My daughter does not have genital herpes,” he said. “This is pure nonsense. I prescribed Valtrex for a cold sore on her lip. She never had a cold sore until she married him.”

He also denied that his daughter ever had an affair.

“He just wants to make things difficult for my family,” Messing said.

Frederick Tanne claims that, in May, he learned of his wife’s latest affair and moved out of their home in Mount Kisco, Westchester County, to a Park Avenue apartment, records show. He filed for divorce in Westchester the same month.

Tanne has been a senior partner at the white-shoe law firm for the last 17 years, specializing in mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts and venture-capital investments ranging from several million to $1 billion.

Last month, he discovered he was infected with the incurable virus, the suit says.

Tanne’s suit claims his wife and Stockel violated a state law requiring people knowingly infected with venereal disease to tell their sexual partner.

Stockel denied any involvement.

“I know nothing about that,” he said.

Tanne is seeking compensation for medical bills, lost wages and pain and suffering, according to the suit. No dollar amount is specified.

“It’s unfortunate that this has become a public matter,” he said through spokesman Howard Rubenstein.

Amy Tanne refused to comment on the suit.