A churlish Chilean socialite accused of holding his kids’ nanny hostage in his Upper East Side digs and paying her peanuts unleashed a barrage of obnoxious, classist insults at a photographer who dared try and collect on an outstanding bill, according to published reports.
“DON’T COME THREATENING ME YOU WORTHLESS LITTLE SHIT. NEVER,” arrogant Manhattan-based aristocrat Micky Hurley ranted in an all-caps email to Chilean lensman Roque Rodriguez, who had asked Hurly to send him $240 for photography work he’d done for Hurley in 2009.
“Remember, you are ALWAYS going to be from a different class, you were born where you were born,” Hurley, a Chilean blue blood, raged against Rodriguez, “a great-grandson of a seamstress.”
“Even if you were reborn a billion times, you will never have a Baroness for a grandmother like me.’
The email tantrum – translated by Gawker – emerged in a Chilean newspaper after The Post exclusively reported that Hurly, an erstwhile interior designer, and his wife Malu Custer Edwards, kept nanny Felicitas del Carmen Villanueva Garnica in slave-like conditions in their Upper East Side apartment, letting their three bratty kids physically abuse her and paid her about $2 an hour for her long, 12-hour days.
Remember, you are ALWAYS going to be from a different class, you were born where you were born.
- Micky Hurley in an email to a photographer
Garnica has sued the prickly power couple, claiming they “trafficked” her to the US from Chile under false pretenses, subjected her to “forced labor,” locked her in rooms of their home and refused to let her return to her homeland, claiming she had signed a contract and had no rights.
Photographer Rodriguez confirmed the validity of Hurley’s e-tirade to Chile’s “The Clinic,” which published them.
Rodriguez said he photographed some of Hurley’s interior design work in 2009, but never was paid in full. In one email, Hurley asks the snapper to send him the work so he can show it to a prospective client. When Rodriguez asked to first be paid what he was owed — and then noted that Hurley was using what appeared to be images shot by the photographer on his Hurley & CO. interior design firm website — Hurley hit the roof.
Addressing Rodriguez as a “roteque” — a highly offensive slur for someone from a lower class — Hurley snarked: “Listen you poor, miserable low-born social climber. Delete your grubby photos….This is what I get for working with street trash like you.”
Regarding the web photos, Hurley blasted, “I don’t have to fake my way through with other peoples’ work. They know my work, they know I have a good eye, and I’ve been on the cover of magazines a number of times.”
He bragged about an Architectural Design story about a Miami apartment he decorated, “with all of its Matisse, Dufy, and Bonard paintings.”
Even if you were reborn a billion times, you will never have a Baroness for a grandmother like me.
- Micky Hurley in an email to a photographer
“So I guess you can see, you idiot, the level I’m on. Oh! and the gentleman from Sutton Place asked me to renovate his home in Greenwich…what do you think of that? Jealous?? I would have paid you your miserable US$240 immediately if you’d delivered the work first.”
“You are dead to me,” Hurley then proclaimed, before bringing his wife into the drama.
“Malu once asked me how I could trust you so much,” he wrote. “It’s obvious now, when you give poor trash an inch, they take a mile.”
Hurley then signed off with a threat.
“Just remember, because you have angered me you will NEVER work for ANY magazine or newspaper in Chile,” he decreed. “Goodbye, great-grandson of a seamstress.”
Hurley could not be immediately reached for comment.