‘Cuff him!’ Libbie Mugrabi’s lawyer shouts in divorce court
06/08/2019The nasty divorce of art scion David Mugrabi and his wife, Libbie, got still nastier on Friday, when her side demanded he pay up hundreds of thousands in overdue support — or be thrown in jail.
“Cuff him and take him down to The Tombs!” Libbie’s lawyer shouted at one point in a contentious Manhattan hearing.
David, meanwhile, is crying poverty, insisting he’s having trouble meeting his $25,000-a-month support payments even though his father is swimming in Warhols.
The dad, industrialist Jose, owns an estimated $5 billion in art, including some 1,000 Warhols.
Trouble is, David’s trust fund is limited, his lawyer, Marc Kasowitz, told Justice Douglas Hoffman.
“Just because Mr. Mugrabi is the son of a wealthy man and comes from a wealthy family doesn’t mean that he has wealth,” Kasowitz told Hoffman.
Which left Libbie’s lawyer, Kevin McDonough, asking the judge why David travels to Europe and pays $10,000 a month to a nanny and chauffeur.
The judge sent each side back to their corners and set a return date for July 31.
David, 47, and Libbie, 39, are squabbling over their own art collection and their shared $72 million Upper East Side townhouse and $3.75 house in Water Mill, LI.
Married 13 years, they have two kids and no prenup.
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