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The former owner of a Mercedes-Benz dealership testified yesterday that he joked about his late business partner’s love life by likening the partner’s mistress, Emel Dilek, to one of the pricey German SUVs each of them had.
“I drove a GL. He drove an ML. I’d make a play on her name,” Arthur “Kitt” Watson Jr. said. “It wasn’t proper, but I did it.”
Watson, 56, also said he never complained about the brunette beauty’s alleged incompetence and absenteeism while she was on the payroll at Mercedes-Benz of Greenwich, Conn., due to a gentleman’s agreement he had with then-COO Ronald Pecunies.
“Ron never advised me on my wives. I never advised Ron on his girlfriends,” the thrice-married Watson testified in Manhattan federal court.
Watson admitted that his current wife, Diane, used to be a file clerk at the dealership and is now a vice president of his company, Watson Enterprises — but he insisted she still takes care of his files at home.
Dilek, 34, is suing Watson’s company to enforce a $120,000-a-year employment contract that Pecunies gave her shortly after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in late 2009.
Watson had put the brakes on the four-year deal after Pecunies died in May 2010 at age 80.
Watson’s testimony yesterday came after Dilek attacked a Post photographer on her way to court, repeatedly whacking the shutterbug with her umbrella.