A wealthy stage actress who appeared on the hit TV show “Charlie’s Angels” locked herself inside her late husband’s $25 million Southampton mansion — blocking the home’s new buyers from entering the stunning beachfront digs, court papers claim.
Tara Tyson Kulukundis, 51, who also appeared in several theater productions on Broadway, handed over keys to the home — then changed the locks to stop the sale, the estate’s executors claim in Manhattan Surogate’s Court.
Kulukundis has for six weeks blocked movers, cleaners and real estate agents from entering the house, forcing them to wait outside for hours, court papers state.
Kulukundis’ shipping magnate husband M. Michael Kulukundi died in 2010 but left the property to executors, Albert Sigal and Barbara De Mare, who on Monday filed a court order to force the fading star out of the pad.
“She promised to cooperate only to bar the door of the second floor room,” court papers state.
They claim they need to sell the house to pay off a mortgage debt created by the magnate’s properties and to fund Kulukundis’ “extravagant lifestyle,” the filing states.
The former actress’s son even tried to reason with her earlier this month. He cleared out extravagant items from the home — including antler chandeliers and motorcycles — to persuade her to leave but even that didn’t work, court papers claim.
” [She] appears to be very resistant to the idea of moving out and [the son] is reluctant to do things which upset her,” the son’s attorney wrote, according to court papers.
If she spoils the closing of the sale, which is set for Friday, executors say mortgage payments at $2,174 of day and fees of $20,000 a month will pile up, court papers show.
It’s not the first time Kulukundi, who appeared in theater productions of “Foreplay” and “Porno Stars at Home,” has stubbornly refused access to her property, court papers state. In 2011, she refused to hand over artwork to property appraisers seeking to prepare an income tax return, the court papers claim.
Sigal and De Mare are selling the home at 320 Murray Place to raise cash to pay off the estate’s $30.5 million mortgage debt, the filing says.