There isn’t a shred of truth to allegations that an elderly Manhattan doctor swiped the proceeds from her family’s Philippine coconut fortune, a new lawsuit charges.
Former internist Amelia Realuyo, 82, was sued last August by brother Pompeyo, 80, claiming she and her lesbian partner sold the family’s $7.25 million Park Avenue pad from under him, denying profits to the family’s education charity.
The family made a fortune off its coconut-rich farmland in the Philippines and put together a foundation named for the siblings’ late WWII hero brother, Augusto Roa Realuyo, who survived the Bataan Death March, Pompeyo said in his suit filed last year in Manhattan Supreme Court.
But Amelia says in her new countersuit that the charity is nothing but a sham and that Pompeyo sued her over the apartment out of pure “spite.’’
The family foundation “has been essentially dormant since 2006,” Amelia says in court papers.
She wants $177,000 from her sibling for legal and other costs related to his suit, which was thrown out by a judge in February.
Pompeyo, a tax lawyer, told The Post that the charity pays tuition for 1,000 students every year.
He said he’ll let the court decide who is telling the truth.