A designer-to-the-stars is suing his third ex-wife claiming she swiped $500,000 worth of irreplaceable furnishings from his Connecticut home and then sold them at auction.
Barry Kieselstein-Cord, whose jewelry, furnishings, eyeglass frames and belt buckles have adorned the likes of Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, Sharon Stone and Oprah Winfrey, says a divorce settlement from Karen Cord required the couple to sell furniture from their former Manhattan home dubbed “Crocodile Hall” — a $25 million double-wide townhouse on Lexington Avenue — and split the proceeds.
But Karen arrived at Barry’s new house in Millbrook, Conn., sometime after the April 2012 settlement “with a large truck and helper” and her “then boyfriend,” the Manhattan Supreme Court suit says.
She “misappropriated” his 15-year, 200-pair collection of Kieselstein-Cord eyewear worth at least $100,000, two rare mid-century Swedish rosewood chairs valued at $30,000, a pewter sundial and other valuables.
In the suit Barry, 69, says at first Karen, 47, told him she didn’t swipe the chairs, which were a gift from his mom.
“Next she said, ‘I took them in the heat of the moment.’ Then she said, I sold them at auction, too bad,’” Barry recalls in court papers.
Barry wants $500,000 for the goods and another $1 million in punitive damages.
At one point during their bitter divorce battle Barry claimed he couldn’t afford his court-ordered monthly payments of $10,800 to Karen, the Post’s Page Six reported at the time.
But a judge opined that “his claims of impoverishment were somewhat mitigated” by a $65,000 trip to Rome with a gal pal.
The designer’s split from his second wife CeCe Cord was known as “fashion’s nastiest divorce” in 1977 after the scorned woman copped to scratching Barry’s 1968 Jaguar convertible.
Karen did not immediately return calls for comment.
An attorney for Barry declined comment.