Strokes rock star Nikolai Fraiture and a real estate executive can’t seem to agree on who owns the secret garden behind their New York City apartments.
Toby Dodd and his wife Julie de Pontbriand filed a lawsuit against the bassist last week alleging “the Fraitures launched a still-ongoing scheme to force the Dodds out of 44 King and take the Garden for themselves.” The Dodds claim they have “exclusive rights” over the 45-by-40 foot yard, which the filings describe as the “real value” of the property as a hard-to-come-by feature in Manhattan.
In 2017, the couple purchased a $3.3 million Soho home at 42 King St., later getting their hands on the garden next door and a $300,000 ground-floor unit at 44 King St. Two years later, the Strokes couple moved into their own 44 King St. ground-floor apartment with a basement. The legal battle then began in 2021, when the Fraitures sued the Dodds for allegedly illegally combining their two units.
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