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Shia LaBeouf to evict aunt to repay $1M debt

“Transformers” star Shia LaBeouf wants his uncle to either pay back the $1 million he owes him or hand over the $2.5 million Manhattan apartment the uncle and his wife live in.

LaB​eouf, 29, won a lawsuit against mom Shayna’s brother, Barry Saide, in February 2014 over the long-past-due debt.

Saide borrowed $800,000 from his famous relative when his employment agency was underwater during the 2009 financial crisis.

Saide, 60, said he thought his big-salary nephew was simply returning the favor.

“Prior to Shia’s ascendancy to film stardom . . . I loaned Shayna hundreds of thousands of dollars to assist in the support of Shayna and Shia,” the uncle said in court papers.

“I never sought repayment of this money; Shayna, Shia and I are family,” he said.

But with the tables turned, Saide claims LaBeouf wasn’t so generous.

Instead of forgiving the loan, LaB​eouf — who made a reported $28 million just for his roles in the “Transformers” series and Oliver Stone’s “Wall Street” sequel — hauled his uncle to court.

And now that Saide can’t pay, LaBeouf wants Saide’s wife’s East 64th Street apartment instead. But the aunt, Sharon Saide, is fighting back, telling a Manhattan judge that she bought the condo with an inheritance from her grandmother and she is listed as the sole owner on the deed.

Sharon Saide, 60, accuses LaBeouf of trying to “intimidate and pressure me” into giving up the apartment where she plans to live for the rest of her life.

“I should not be pressured into giving up my apartment in order to satisfy a judgment which Barry incurred,” Sharon Saide says in papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court on Tuesday.
She notes that the apartment is worth at least $2.8 million, more than double the debt.

The $800,000 loan has grown to more than $1 million with interest and attorneys’ fees.

“I am not liable for Barry’s debts, regardless of whether he and I are married and regardless of whether he may contribute to the mortgage,” Sharon Saide says in the recent filing.

The Saides want the judge to block a subpoena LaBeouf served on Citibank to determine who pays their mortgage.

G. Robert Gage Jr., an attorney for LaB​eouf, declined to comment.