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Relatives snubbed in millionaire’s will demand answers

The disinherited relatives of a legendary New York theater producer are waging a bitter legal battle over her $28 million fortune.

Honey Waldman who, with her husband, converted an East Village bank and a dilapidated Hudson Valley movie house into thriving theaters in the 1970s showered her niece and nephew with cash during her lifetime — but then cut them out of her will.

“I have provided generously for their needs during my lifetime,” Waldman wrote in the August 2013 documents before the 87-year-old died of heart failure that December.

But now her only surviving family members, nephew Steven Waldman, of Manhattan, and niece Honey Bernstein, of upstate Goshen, are demanding documents from the estate’s attorney, Jeffrey Barr.

Steven Waldman, 60, and Bernstein, 62, have not yet challenged the will, which left her entire fortune to a charity that supports struggling artists.

But they say in court papers that Barr is stonewalling requests for a list of their aunt’s art collection that includes an Andy Warhol and financial records.

Barr told The Post the relatives are trying to create the impression that their aunt was not fully competent when she signed the will.

“That woman was as sharp as a tack,” Barr said. He notes in court papers that previous wills going back 30 years also disinherited her brothers’ children.

Bernstein declined comment. Waldman and his attorneys did not respond to requests for comment.

Honey Waldman and her late husband Bruce Becker built the Bouwerie Lane Theater at Bowery and Bond Street and the Tappan Zee Playhouse in Nyack, that featured such stars as Julie Harris and Faye Dunaway.

Both theaters have since been shuttered, the one on Bowery replaced by pricey condos.