The city’s taxi king slammed and choked his pretty young wife weeks before she filed for divorce, new court papers charge.
Eccentric multimillionaire Gene Freidman, 44 — who owns more taxi medallions than anyone in the city — shoved 24-year-old wife Sandra’s “body and head against a wall, [placed] both of his hands around her throat and [squeezed] her throat, causing pain and leaving redness around her neck” on March 5, according to the documents.
Freidman had just moved out of the couple’s tony East 65th Street town house the month before because his Parisian-bred wife wanted to party all the time, according to a source close to the taxi mogul. She filed for divorce weeks later.
Freidman faces three charges of criminal obstruction of breathing, attempted assault in the third degree and harassment in the second degree.
The couple, who share a 1 ¹/₂-year-old daughter, Leyla, are due in court on May 13.
“I love my wife and daughter very much and regret she has taken this course of action,” Freidman said in a statement to The Post, declining to comment further.
Sandra’s divorce lawyer did not return messages. The young mother is a freelance journalist who attended Columbia University and writes for local Web site The Uptowner.
Frediman — famous for his champagne-soaked lavish bashes in the south of France — has said his wife signed an “ironclad prenup which guarantees her $5 million dollars.”
The agreement, inked before the duo’s 2012 nuptials, requires Sandra to vacate their $4.8 million town house 90 days after she initiates divorce proceedings. The contested matrimonial case was filed on April 7.
Freidman has been under mounting financial pressure since his 900 taxi medallions plummeted in value from $1.05 million in 2013 to $800,000 in January, thanks at least partly to competition from Uber.