{"id":52076,"date":"2020-08-23T01:23:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T22:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/serial-grifter-avoids-eviction-from-womans-west-village-home-suit\/"},"modified":"2020-08-23T01:23:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T22:23:00","slug":"serial-grifter-avoids-eviction-from-womans-west-village-home-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/serial-grifter-avoids-eviction-from-womans-west-village-home-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"#\u2018Serial grifter\u2019 avoids eviction from woman\u2019s West Village home: suit"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#\u2018Serial grifter\u2019 avoids eviction from woman\u2019s West Village home: suit<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n A long-running battle between a West Village woman and the squatter she can\u2019t shake took a stunning twist Saturday when a city judge ordered her to keep living with the alleged tormenter.<\/p>\n

Barrow Street resident Heidi Russell says short-term renter Kate Gladstone is a \u201cserial grifter\u201d who took over her living room and bathroom, spritzed Russell with cleaning chemicals, threatened her and refused to pay rent for months, according to a lawsuit.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is horrid! Unconscionable!!\u201d fumed Russell of the judge\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n

Russell claims tenant Gladstone would sit in the dark and record her when she came home, and accost her if she tried to use the common areas, leading Russell to flee her two-bedroom home during the day to avoid her.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s turned me into a homeless person during the pandemic,\u201d said Russell. \u201cI\u2019m out on the street, with my mask and my old dog in a carriage. It\u2019s just taken over our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gladstone, a self-described documentary filmmaker, narrowly ducked being booted from Russell\u2019s home in March after COVID-19 concerns put a stop to evictions, including her own court-ordered ouster. A top state judge then extended the ban till October.<\/p>\n

Gladstone stayed until last month, when she left for 17 days without a word, prompting Russell to change the locks, Russell said.<\/p>\n

When Gladstone came back unannounced and couldn\u2019t get in, she dashed to housing court, claiming she\u2019d been illegally locked out, documents show.<\/p>\n

Judge Marc Finkelstein noted in his August decision that Gladstone could have acted with \u201cgreater kindness, sensitivity and cooperation\u201d toward Russell, but nevertheless agreed to restore the accused squatter to the home, noting only city marshals can legally remove her.<\/p>\n

Gladstone is now set to return Sunday, after another judge confirmed Finkelstein\u2019s decision, and Russell is fearful.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf she comes back in here she\u2019s never going to leave,\u201d Russell told The Post.<\/p>\n

The saga began in June 2019, when Russell and her partner, Valentina Bajada, decided to rent their spare bedroom while Bajada was on an extended international trip<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They offered it to Gladstone, who had stayed with them once before, for $2,000 a month.<\/p>\n

But when Russell needed the room for her mom, who was set to undergo surgery, she asked Gladstone to leave by June 30, 2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe flew off the handle, yelling, \u2018No, no, impossible, you\u2019re going to ruin my life. \u2026 I\u2019m not leaving,\u2019\u201d Russell recalled.<\/p>\n

The incident launched a barrage of bizarre and troubling behavior, Russell claims in Manhattan court papers.<\/p>\n

Gladstone installed her daughter in the bedroom and slept in the living room, the papers say.<\/p>\n

She accused Russell of scaring her kid, allowed her dog to relieve itself in the apartment, stole food, and accosted Russell whenever she tried to use the bathroom or kitchen, Russell told The Post.<\/p>\n

Gladstone threatened to sue and piled boxes of her belongings in the living room, said Russell, who filed a lawsuit against Gladstone in Manhattan Federal Court and is app<\/a>ealing the city Housing Court decision allowing Gladstone to return.<\/p>\n

The lodger also sprayed a cleaning product until door handles and doors were dripping with the liquid, charges Russell.<\/p>\n

Russell resorted to using the bathroom at friends\u2019 homes and in nearby laundry rooms, and wore headphones when she came in to avoid talking to Gladstone or her daughter, she claims.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce the pandemic hit, it got worse,\u201d said Russell, claiming Gladstone would spray cleaner at her as she walked through the 650-square-foot apartment.<\/p>\n

Cops and local officials have allegedly ignored Russell\u2019s pleas to get Gladstone out, Russell said.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s at least the third time the 44-year-old Gladstone, a Pittsburgh native who according to court papers also uses the name Katherine Klein, has allegedly overstayed her welcome.<\/p>\n

Victims and court records portray her as a menace in the West Village, where she\u2019s been accused of squatting, harassing landlords, and stiffing them on rent.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s been arrested twice, once for allegedly stalking and also for forgery and grand larceny after she allegedly stole her ex-girlfriend\u2019s\u00a0credit cards to pay for hotel rooms in the area. She\u2019s due in court in September on the charges.<\/p>\n

Gladstone, who\u00a0posted a behind the scenes clip of Bill Clinton on Vimeo she captioned, \u201cMy day with Bill & Tony & Sara,\u201d was no star to Matt Titus, the celeb matchmaker who rented her his 400-square-foot studio apartment on West 13th Street in 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s just absolutely one of the most vile, terrible human beings I have ever encountered,\u201d said Titus, who accused Gladstone of squatting with her child in his apartment for months in 2017, ultimately leaving him $20,000 in debt and ruining his credit.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s terrible,\u201d said Titus, whose ordeal was described in Russell\u2019s Manhattan Federal Court lawsuit.<\/p>\n

In addition to squatting in Titus\u2019 apartment, the divorced mom allegedly squatted for months in the Christopher Street home of her ex-girlfriend, refusing to leave until she was paid $20,000, according to court records.<\/p>\n

Russell, an executive assistant at a private equity firm in Midtown who got laid off last year, said with the state eviction ban now in effect until Oct. 1, she doesn\u2019t know what to do.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo one wants to help me. I\u2019m scared for my safety. I\u2019m financially ruined. They say, \u2018Just wait for the ban to be lifted.\u2019 Well, they keep extending it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Bajada has steered clear of the co-op, which she owns, in part because of Gladstone\u2019s presence, the couple charge in legal papers.<\/p>\n

Gladstone denied the allegations.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope you know better than to think that,\u201d she said when reached by The Post, before adding, \u201cI can\u2019t even comment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Russell said her fight should serve as a warning to others in the area, noting Gladstone\u2019s affection for the posh West Village.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know if she would take free housing, because she wants to live in the village. She wants the prestige, she wants her child to go to school here,\u201d Russell said.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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