MISSING MISS RIGHT: Larry Greenfield, 47, is looking for a woman in her mid-30s who can bear kids. (Dennis Clark)
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Wealthy Larry Greenfield says he’s lonely and looking for love — but he snubbed lovely business consultant and comedian Maxine Gordon after just one date.
“I think he’s looking for something that doesn’t exist: a gorgeous, talented, Jewish woman like Natalie Portman, except ‘I stay at home; I’m here to put on your slippers and clean your room,’ ” Gordon, 44, told The Post yesterday.
The pretty Manhattan blonde said she was introduced two months ago to Greenfield, a bespectacled 47-year-old multimillionaire ex-trader from Plainview, LI, who detailed his hunt for a non-“alpha” female in yesterday’s Post.
She even fit his exacting standards: thin, attractive, Jewish, smart, sense of humor, from New York and, most important, not an “alpha” woman.
They connected on their love of travel, Gordon said, and Greenfield told her he wanted to take her to London and Paris. They talked about their Jewish heritage and family members who had recently passed away.
But when he never followed up for a second date, she said, she suspected he might be looking for a better deal.
“I don’t want to say anything bad about him,” Gordon said. “He’s a nice guy looking for a match, but he needs to give people a chance.”
Amazingly, she said she’s still interested in Greenfield, who says he’s spent $65,000 on six matchmakers — and has been on more than 250 dates — in 12 years.
But Greenfield doesn’t feel the same way.
“The chemistry wasn’t there,” he told The Post yesterday.
“She’s a nice girl. I have nothing bad to say about her.
“We still keep in touch, I still hear from her,’’ Greenfield added. “It’s not like I lost her number like the other girls.”
“Honestly, from my point of view, I’m never going to say anybody is too old. She’s a nice girl; the chemistry wasn’t right.”
As with all the matchmakers that Greenfield hired — and whom he called a huge “rip-off” — Gordon suspects that the bachelor might just be too picky.
“I thought he was attractive enough, nice enough. I don’t see why all of these things haven’t worked out,” she said. “He’s looking for love at first sight, and everyone has imperfections. Talk to someone. Get to know them.
“To find a woman who wants to stay at home and lives in Manhattan, he might be looking in the wrong time period,” Gordon said.
But Greenfield said he’s still looking for a woman who can give him his dream — a dog, two kids, a white-picket fence — and that means the woman has to be able to have children.
“One of these days, ask your doctor. Ask when you can have children as a woman,” Greenfield said. “If they’re capable of having children, mid-30s.”
For Gordon, it’s hard to swallow that she was passed over because Greenfield has his eyes set on a woman 15 years younger than he is.
“It makes me sad. It’s depressing. It hurts. Is it because I can’t pop out a kid? I can do it. It can be done,” she said.
“What I think is unfair is the double standard. He can . . . want kids and a career. But for women, no.”
Long Island matchmaker Maureen Tara Nelson — who Greenfield has said failed him — fired back yesterday that one woman she set him up with, and whom he dismissed as “terrible” looking, was too good for him.
“He thinks since he has money that he is entitled to a beautiful woman,” she said.
“He needs to realize beautiful women are beyond his reach.”