Justin Theroux turns up in NYC court in bid to evict ‘nuisance’ neighbor

nypost.com:

the latest chapter of an ugly legal saga between the actor and a real estate lawyer who lives in the floor below him.Theroux, 52, and the rest of the co-op board are urging a Manhattan judge to order Norman Resnicow and his wife Barbara evicted after what the “Mulholland Drive” actor called a campaign of harassment that erupted in 2015 when he and his then-wife Jennifer Aniston began a $1 million renovation on his second-floor apartment.“This is a fairly cut-and-dry case.

Their time at the co-op has come to an end,” Joshua Kopelowitz, a lawyer for Theroux and his fellow board members at 71 Washington Place, said during the Manhattan Supreme Court hearing.“Let’s not pretend that things are going to change,” Kopelowitz said as Theroux looked on in a black T-shirt, black overcoat and jeans from the first row of the gallery, flanked by three other members of the eight-unit co-op and with the rest of the residents watching from a remote video feed.“They will not, and these people shouldn’t have to live like this,” Kopelowitz added, gesturing at Theroux and his fellow co-op board members.Among Theroux’s lurid allegations in a 2017 lawsuit was that Resnicow, who lives with his wife on the building’s first floor, trespassed on the actor’s property, peeped into his windows and killed the ivy that grew on their shared roof terrace — simply because he knew Theroux liked the plants.Resnicow, meanwhile, claimed in his own 2017 suit — filed shortly after the finale of Theroux’s HBO show “The Leftovers” — that the actor’s accusations are “as fictional as the television series in which he recently starred.”The courts have largely ruled in favor of Theroux.In August, a separate Manhattan judge found that the actor has “established as a.