You can’t cry poverty when your Broadway-big-shot dad’s been footing the bills.
Bad-boy theater scion Eric Nederlander lost a major divorce battle yesterday when a panel of appellate judges ordered him to fork over $1.5 million to keep his estranged wife’s posh Meatpacking District triplex out of foreclosure.
Nederlander — infamously dumped shortly after his honeymoon by Jessica Sklar, who left him to date and then marry Jerry Seinfeld — had fought hard to keep from paying his share of the mortgage arrears on the 3,000-square-foot West 13th Street pad he and Lindsey Kupferman bought together as newlyweds in 2004.
He claimed poverty, insisting in a divorce deposition that his dad, Robert Nederlander, part owner of the family’s nationwide theater conglomerate, paid him only $700 a week as an assistant.
But in panning that performance, the appellate panel noted that Robert actually pays Eric’s bills, forking out some $4 million to support him over the years.
“He actually has access to seemingly unlimited financial resources,” the panel’s decision reads.
The panel also concluded that the wayward son dug his own grave. “All of his bills, both personal and business, are, and have been paid for by his father,” the decision reports, citing a deposition.
“We’re greatly relieved,” said Martha Cohen Stine, an attorney for Kupferman (right, with Nederlander), who remains in the triplex with the couple’s 4-year-old daughter.
Eric Nederlander has had extended runs in both Manhattan’s divorce court — where he’s battled Kupferman for five years — and criminal courts.
He took a no-jail plea to misdemeanor criminal contempt in September over charges that he had violated an order of protection by throwing himself against the door of girlfriend Nancy Okun’s West 12th Street apartment, shouting:
“You f–king bitch! You’re cheating on me!”
The lengthy divorce saga will continue when the parties meet again in Manhattan Civil Court on Jan 22.