the big apple socialite shocked by wonder divorce is thrown every other curveball

domestic isn’t simply wherein you cling your hat anymore — it’s additionally wherein you maintain most of your shoes.

A Swiss businessman is making the unusual criminal declare in a bid to have his divorce play out in Monaco rather of latest York, arguing that his socialite wife’s enormous shoe collection sits in their Monte Carlo closet and no longer their long island pad.

The move should store Maurice Alain Amon tens of thousands and thousands due to the fact there’s no prison idea of shared marital assets in Monaco however instead a “separation regime” where ownership relies upon on which spouse holds the name.

The millionaire’s recent filing in manhattan supreme courtroom offers a peek into estranged wife Tracey Hejailan’s 8-rack shoe collection, piles of purses and a couple of walk-in closets full of garments.

One photograph of her high-priced shoes reveals as a minimum eighty pairs of stilettos, wedges, patent leather-based pumps and strappy sandals on glass shelving.

“One need only take a look at the wide variety of pairs of footwear in her closet to finish she lives there,” Amon’s attorney, Peter Bronstein, says within the filing.

Bronstein made the argument in reaction to the lawsuit Hejailan filed remaining month claiming her ex swiped $US25 million of paintings off the walls of their 5th street pied-à-terre earlier than quietly submitting for divorce in Monaco.

“beneath Monaco law, (Hejailan) does not have an hobby within the artworks in query,” Bronstein says in courtroom papers.

If the divorce intending happened in the big apple, Hejailan would be entitled to a element in their artwork collection.

Amon, who inherited thousands and thousands from his circle of relatives’s protection company, SICPA, says he showered his spouse with $US75 million in real property, jewelry and cash items during his “short, 2nd, childless marriage.”

but Hejailan’s legal professional said his purchaser is ready to fight for the artwork series, which incorporates a Basquiat and a Warhol.

“They don’t live in Monaco,” insisted her legal professional, Aaron Richard Golub.

He brought that the former couple just completed creation on the $US40 million Monaco home in can also. They married in Hong Kong and feature lived in London, Paris and Gstaad, Switzerland.