Ayelet Argaman had minor roles in Law and Order and The Sopranos. (ayeletargaman.com)
An aspiring US actress is suing her married former lover after he allegedly tried to take back about $3.5 million in gifts.
Ayelet Argaman, who has had minor roles in Law & Order and The Sopranos, began an affair with property developer Robert Rothenberg, 55, more than a year ago.
During that time, she claims in court documents, he lavished the 35-year-old with gifts that included a 60 percent ownership stake in a one-bedroom apartment in New York City, cash to fund her fledgling singing career and $100,000 a month for expenses.
Mr Rothenberg allegedly told her in one email that she "probably wants a younger version of me" but that "God works in ways we don't understand," the New York Post reports.
When Ms Argaman broke off the affair in June, Mr Rothenberg, who is president of a company that owns more than 10,000 apartment buildings across America, invoked a New York law known as the "heart-balm statute" to demand she return the gifts he presented her because they were given in contemplation of marriage.
Ms Argaman argus the statute does not apply in this case because it "is intended for single people actually engaged to be married" and not "an adulterer like Rothenberg" who was and still is married.
Mr Rothenberg's lawyer told The Post many of the allegations in Ms Argaman's lawsuit were not true.
Ayelet Argaman, who has had minor roles in Law & Order and The Sopranos, began an affair with property developer Robert Rothenberg, 55, more than a year ago.
During that time, she claims in court documents, he lavished the 35-year-old with gifts that included a 60 percent ownership stake in a one-bedroom apartment in New York City, cash to fund her fledgling singing career and $100,000 a month for expenses.
Mr Rothenberg allegedly told her in one email that she "probably wants a younger version of me" but that "God works in ways we don't understand," the New York Post reports.
When Ms Argaman broke off the affair in June, Mr Rothenberg, who is president of a company that owns more than 10,000 apartment buildings across America, invoked a New York law known as the "heart-balm statute" to demand she return the gifts he presented her because they were given in contemplation of marriage.
Ms Argaman argus the statute does not apply in this case because it "is intended for single people actually engaged to be married" and not "an adulterer like Rothenberg" who was and still is married.
Mr Rothenberg's lawyer told The Post many of the allegations in Ms Argaman's lawsuit were not true.
Read more at http://staging.9news.com.au/world/2014/12/03/02/55/actress-suing-older-married-lover-to-keep-gifts#GtT655ztLDBKtewB.99
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