A Manhattan businessman has transformed his basement Tribeca condo into an “extreme party” spot — complete with “fire massages,” “flame feats” and a “stripper pole,” court papers charge.
In a bid to avoid possible legal liability for the bacchanalian bashes, the owner, James McGown, transferred the deed for the apartment to his six-year-old daughter, Annabelle, his disgusted neighbors claim in papers filed today in Manhattan Supreme Court.
McGown bought the basement unit at 109 Reade St. in 2006, and secretly switched the deed over to his daughter a year later, the suit says.
He then stopped paying condo fees and his mortgage papers, and in November of last year, leased the space to a tenant named Dimitri Dimoulakis, the filing says.
Some of the shennanighans are included in a video widely circulated on the Internet.
Dimoulakis, who told neighbors he was a “sex toy” salesman, then helped McGown engage “in brutal misconduct against the unit owners in the building” by “promoting and holding ongoing paid party events in the unit for paying guest subscribers and/or the general public,” the filing says.
The events often feature “pornographic elements, and [cause] horrendous noise disturbance, dangerous conditions and severe risk for the condominium,” the suit says.
A Nov. 27 party had 156 guest in the small space who paid $10 to $15 each to be there — and they got quite a show, the suit says.
The event included a “fire massage,” where “a woman is waving a wand of fire over the bare back and legs of a man, who is lying down on what looks like a kitchen counter. The man’s pants are also pulled down to his ankles,” the suit says.
The neighbors complained, noting four kids lived in the six-story building and that the first floor had a pediatrician’s office, but McGown and Dimoulakis kept partying on, the suit says.
After a Dec. 5 bash, “Garbage and debris were left strewn about the building entrance, with a trail of blood from the sidewalk leading up to the basement side entrance,” the suit says.
The filing seeks to stop the partying, and get both Dimoulakis and McGown out of the building.
They could not immediately be reached.