Curbed,<\/a> who first broke the story.<\/p>\nBehind the luxury-building doors is a familiar landlord-tenant fight \u2014 with decidedly unfamiliar price tags.<\/p>\n
According to the owners\u2019 July complaint, Terwillegar\u2019s lease ran from Aug. 22, 2024, through July 31, 2025, at $26,000 a month. Her mother, Andrea, also lives in the apartment and is named in the suit alongside Molinari.<\/p>\n
The owners acknowledge that the base rent was paid during the original lease. But they allege utilities went unpaid \u2014 and that rent payments stopped after the lease expired.<\/p>\n
Terwillegar competed for Team USA at the 1988 and 1992 Winter Olympics. Alamy Stock Photo<\/p>\n
Terwillegar competes in women\u2019s singles luge at the 1992 Winter Games. Alamy Stock Photo<\/p>\n
Terwillegar says she renewed for another year, according to the complaint. The owners say she needed their agreement to do so.<\/p>\n
Now they want $624,000 for the year through July 2026, pointing to a lease provision that doubles the rent for tenants who overstay. Alternatively, they\u2019re seeking $327,600 in rent or payment for the occupants\u2019 continued stay.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re also demanding at least $30,000 for utilities and other charges, at least $100,000 in legal fees and $250,000 in punitive damages.<\/p>\n
But the biggest number on the bill is $6.75 million.<\/p>\n
The owners allege they had a buyer willing to pay that amount \u2014 provided the buyer could actually see the apartment. They say the occupants repeatedly refused access, torpedoing the deal.<\/p>\n
The disputed condo at 150 Charles Street rented for $26,000 a month. Evan Joseph<\/p>\n
The owners allege the occupants stayed without paying after the lease expired. Evan Joseph<\/p>\n
The tenants tell a very different story.<\/p>\n
In an interview with The Post, the couple and their attorney, Colleen Kerwick, maintained that payments were made on time and described an apartment cluttered with the owners\u2019 belongings which meant the occupants couldn\u2019t use the cabinets and drawers. Kerwick also questioned whether the prospective buyer was real.<\/p>\n
The owners dispute the couple\u2019s description of the apartment.<\/p>\n
Whatever his complaints about the place, Molinari was clear about wanting to keep the address.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce I got into 150 Charles,\u201d Molinari told the Curbed, \u201cI wasn\u2019t leaving.\u201d<\/p>\n
The couple\u2019s courtroom history stretches beyond Charles Street. The Post counts 19 lawsuits. <\/p>\n
At their previous rental at 166 Perry Street, the landlord also alleged in a May 2023 complaint that they stayed after their lease expired in November 2022.<\/p>\n
That apartment cost $11,000 a month. The landlord sought at least $66,000 in unpaid charges, ongoing monthly payments and at least $25,000 in legal fees.<\/p>\n
Terwillegar argued that they had been negotiating to buy the apartment and had become month-to-month tenants. That the fight ended in an undisclosed settlement in August 2024, according to court documents obtained by The Post. <\/p>\n
The owners claim denied access derailed a potential $6.75 million sale. Evan Joseph<\/p>\n
The tenants have complained about clutter and malfunctioning appliances. Evan Joseph<\/p>\n
And the couple isn\u2019t always on the receiving end of a lawsuit.<\/p>\n
In 2007, Molinari sued over a sidewalk fall outside a different building, at 167 Perry Street, where he was a co-op shareholder.<\/p>\n
He alleged that uneven pavement caused a January 2004 fall that left him with a broken ankle. A judge refused to throw out the suit against the building\u2019s owner and manager in 2012, saying disputed facts needed to be sorted out at trial. That ruling does not show whether he ultimately received any money.<\/p>\n
In July 2025, the couple sued Barry Leistner, a New York construction executive and investor who heads structural-steel company Koenig Iron Works, for at least $30 million in lost earnings over a disputed debt.
They allege he obtained a judgment against them in November 2012 by physically cutting and pasting their signatures from another document onto a \u201cconfession of judgment\u201d \u2014 a document acknowledging a debt \u2014 and submitting forged papers claiming they had been served.<\/p>\n
Terwillegar had given Leistner jewelry and gemstones they value at roughly $750,000 as security for that debt, according to their complaint. They now want those items returned and say the judgment was vacated in March 2024 on grounds of fraud and forgery.<\/p>\n
A September filing shows Leistner was seeking dismissal of their lawsuit and that the parties had discussed a settlement.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, their eviction case at 150 Charles is headed for a December trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former Olympic luger is in a race to stay put. Erica Terwillegar and her partner, Peter Molinari,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1022,57294,9,56,63,65,64,1491,3448,14835,2380,23717],"class_list":["post-368534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-celebrity-real-estate","tag-evictions","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-real-estate","tag-space","tag-squatters","tag-west-village","tag-winter-olympics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}