NYC real estate bro facing dozens of rape claims duped building owner to rent $45K-a-month pad to deadbeat who didnt pay a cent: suit

A real estate agent facing dozens of rape accusations duped a building owner into renting a pricey pad to a deadbeat who never paid a dime, a new lawsuit claims.Tal Alexander — one of the notorious lux real-estate Alexander Brothers — allegedly coaxed the owner of a flashy Soho property to lease his swanky, $45,00-a-month penthouse to a buddy who used “falsified bank documents,” according to the lawsuit.The owners of a $12 million Thompson Street duplex filed the lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court on Monday against Alexander, broker Nicholas Lounsbury and tenant Daniel Fine — but the alleged bad tenant fired back against the claims and called the huge space “unlivable.”The lease “was and continues to be a con-job disaster,” claims the lawsuit, which accuses Fine, an entrepreneur, of never paying his rent, and instead illegally subletting the unit “to generate income for themselves without paying Plaintiff its justly-due rent.”Fine also allegedly failed to pay his “remarkable” electric bills which “regularly” exceeded $2,500 per month, the suit states.Fine, through his company, FineCo, allegedly produced a “fraudulent” bank statement showing FineCo held over $4 million in cash, court papers state.Tal and brother Oren, both former high-rolling luxury real estate agents who were hired to help lease out the penthouse at 54 Thompson St., are now in federal lockup awaiting trial on charges they raped at least 60 women. “The brazenness of Mr.Fine’s forgery of his company’s financial records is appalling to our client,” said Christopher Milito, attorney for the owners.

“Worse still is that Official Partners – our client’s own broker – appears to be complicit in this fraud. Forthcoming subpoenas will show FineCo’s true financial situation at the time – which we expect will be dismal.”But the tenant told The Post that the penthouse was riddled with issues — including “no AC at all, and no heat in the winter,” h...