Actress suing married sugar daddy to keep $3M in gifts
An aspiring actress who has had minor roles in “Law & Order” and “The Sopranos” is suing her married former lover for allegedly trying to snatch back $3 million in gifts — including a Trump Palace love nest.
Ayelet Argaman says in new Manhattan court papers that she embarked on a sizzling affair with her much older sugar daddy, Beachwold Residential President Robert Rothenberg, more than a year ago.
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He sent her another email when they first started dating in September 2013 in which he said she “probably wants a younger version of me” but coos that “God works in ways we don’t understand,’’ according to the suit.
“For me this is new, fresh and exciting. It’s your softness. Your depth and your soul . . . Intrigued?” Rothenberg wrote, the documents state.
The Harvard MBA then bought Argaman the $1.4 million, one-bedroom Trump pad on East 69th Street and gave her a 60 percent ownership stake in it, according to the lawsuit.
He also showered Argaman with $1.3 million in other gifts, including money to fund her entertainment career, luxury home furnishings and $100,000 a month for expenses, according to court papers.
After she dumped him in June, he threatened to sue her, claiming New York’s “heart-balm statute” requires her to return the gifts he gave her because they were made in contemplation of marriage, her suit says.
