He’s IPO’d at his ex.
A scorned Brooklyn dad is suing his former wife claiming she hid Twitter stock that she’d secretly bought during their marriage – which is now worth between $10 million and $50 million after the social networking company went public on Nov. 7.
Stuart Strumwasser, 47, who plays in an indie rock band and recently launched a natural soda brand, claims his Wharton- and Columbia-educated ex, Jennifer Johnson, 46, told him she was taking a trip to visit her brother shortly before their divorce in 2006.
“However, Johnson secretly went to San Francisco to meet with her first ex-husband,” Strumwasser’s Manhattan Supreme Court suit alleges.
“She also met with one or more of the founders of Twitter,” according to court papers.
Johnson’s first husband, Gregg Kidd, was a former colleague of Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey.
Meanwhile, Strumwasser, who lives in Carroll Gardens, “was home watching their children, and the parties were acting as a ‘marital team’ so Johnson could make the trip.”
“Unbeknownst to Strumwasser, Johnson was holding business meetings with one or more of the creators of Twitter.”
Strumwasser believes his former spouse was a first-round investor in the social media company, plunking down between $10,000 and $50,000, according to his suit.
He says that money should have been considered part of their marital assets.
Johnson, a Battery Park City resident, filed for divorce six months later and Strumwasser claims she milked him for exorbitant child support, considering he was only making $43,000 the year they split.
Strumwasser says he discovered his wife’s secret when he recently stumbled across her LinkedIn page.
Her profile says “she is a first round investor in Twitter.”
But Johnson was allegedly mum about her investing during the divorce proceedings even though the value of Twitter was “rapidly appreciating” in 2007 when the couple reached a settlement.
The parties were required to make full financial disclosures to their Manhattan matrimonial judge
Strumwasser claims in the suit that the omission constitutes fraud.
Reached Tuesday, Johnson, a stunning blonde who works in technology, told The Post that her ex is “out of his mind” and called the allegations “utterly ridiculous.”
Strumwasser at first declined to comment on his suit, but when he heard his ex’s jab, he said, “That’s exactly the kind of personal attack I suffered over and over during our divorce.”
The hipster dad called himself “a middle-class guy who struggles to pay the rent while [Johnson] is a millionaire.”
The former spouses have twin 9-year-old sons. Their dad pays $2,465 a month in child support, according to court papers. He claims that amount is three times the legal requirement.
Strumwasser wants back $120,000 in child support payments plus 30 percent of the Twitter shares.
Additional reporting by Amanda Lozada