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Socialite in Joan Rivers’ condo fight a ‘safety risk’: suit

The bitter building feud between comedienne Joan Rivers and her downstairs neighbor has taken a dark turn.

A fellow member of the board at the E.62nd St. building where Rivers is president claims in new court papers that first-floor resident Elizabeth Hazan, 41, has created an apocalyptic atmosphere at the tony condo.

“We are concerned about fire, theft, security and harassment and chaos in front of the building,” sniffs socialite Cynthia Maltese, who lives next to Hazan in apartment 1B.

“Ms. Hazan and her cohorts have created an extremely unsafe condition at the building,” Maltese adds.

The board’s attorney, Kevin Smith, claims that Hazan and a friend are lighting her $2 million, two-room pad with candles — because Con Edison shut off the electricity due to nonpayment — and creating a fire hazard.

Hazan has also allegedly left her street-level “large, French-door style windows” wide open, creating a safety risk for residents of the luxury building where Rivers lives in a $30 million penthouse triplex.

The board will ask Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Anil Singh to evict Hazan on Thursday.

The battle between Hazan and the building started when Rivers filed a lawsuit against the bottle-blonde socialite for $200,000 in unpaid condo charges.

The Miami native fought back against that suit but filing her own $15M suit against Rivers which claimed that the the comedienne personally singled out Hazan.

During the legal battle Hazan has channeled her inner Joan Rivers by lobbying a barrage of nasty cracks against her nemesis.

At one point Hazan said of the 80-year-old Rivers, “Without makeup she looks like the Joker from Batman.”

Maltese claims that Hazan created such a media frenzy outside the building in October — after calling police over claims that Rivers had illegally locked her out of her unit — that she could not walk her dog because she would have had to exit through a back door.

“The dog is elderly and could not walk up and down the steps,” Maltese grumbled.

Then when the 76-year-old Maltese had to go to a doctor’s office later that day police were still blocking the entrance to the condo and she was forced to leave through the service entrance.

Hazan’s attorney, Darius Marzec, called the board’s eviction cases against his client “weak” and said it was “filed in retaliation” to Hazan’s suit.