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Money manager hubby sued for her 2009 death

The estranged husband of a money manager found dead in her Upper West Side apartment on New Year’s Eve 2009 is being sued for allegedly murdering her.

Although he’s never been charged in Shele Danishefsky’s murder, the wrongful-death suit by her estate charges that “Roderick Covlin did intentionally, deliberately, willfully, wantonly, maliciously, brutally and without provocation or just cause did strangle, choke, strike, injure, assault, abuse, beat and murder” the mother of his two children.

The suit was filed on behalf of the New York County Public Administrator’s Office, which handles the estates of people who die without wills or when there is an issue with an executor.

The legal move is highly unusual, because as it currently stands, Covlin is the main beneficiary of her estate but he has also long been the prime suspect in her murder, and stands to inherit half of her multimillion-dollar estate, while the kids would receive the other half.

The filing notes that the couple was “embroiled in contentious divorce proceedings” at the time of Danishefsky’s death.

She’d also taken out an order of protection against her husband, and sources have told The Post the UBS Wealth Management veep had a meeting scheduled, the death after her death, with a lawyer to amend her will to exclude her husband.

Mitchell Studley, who’s handling the case for the Public Administrator’s Office, said the office had to file the suit now because of a two-year statute of limitations.

Marilyn Chinitz of Blank Rome, who is representing Danishefsky’s brother and parents, declined comment.

A knowledgeable source said the Manhattan DA’s investigation into the case is “active.”