Real estate developer Jamie LeFrak better get used to being called a blowhard — because it’s likely to happen again.
Owners of 48 units in two of LeFrak’s Jersey City condo high-rises are gearing up for trial against the 40-year-old heir and his eponymously named property empire, The Post has learned.
The apartment owners are claiming LeFrak lured them in with promises of “breathtaking” views of New York Harbor only to build a high-rise smack dab in front of them.
LeFrak, whose family is worth an estimated $6.1 billion, stands to lose millions if a still-fresh case by 16 other condo owners is any indication.
On Monday, a New Jersey appeals court upheld a jury award of $4.8 million to 16 condo owners from the same waterfront complex.
The owners said they paid a pretty penny for water-facing windows in LeFrak’s South Shore residential high-rise only to end up with views of a 31-story high-rise that was also built by LeFrak.
Adding further insult, the new building, the Aquablu, touted panoramic vistas to buyers.
LeFrak sought to have the $4.8 million judgment tossed on appeal because lawyer Keith Biebelberg described him at the 2011 trial as a rich “blowhard.”
A three-judge appeals court panel ruled on Monday that the description was “fair” given the evidence.
The four dozen new claims will be from owners of LeFrak’s South Shore and North Shore apartment complexes, said Richard Feldman of Rosenberg Feldman Smith, who is working with Biebelberg.
A spokeswoman for the real estate company declined to comment.