accused of tormenting his much younger lover <\/a>made waves at his Florida country club on New Year\u2019s Eve \u2014 grabbing a man\u2019s phone and tossing it in a pool in an ugly confrontation over poolside lounge chairs.<\/p>\nVideo of the wet-and-wild Dec. 31 incident shows 550-pound Ronald David Ingber towering over two people next to the pool at the $95,000-a-year Wycliffe Country Club in Palm Beach County.<\/p>\n
Ingber, 52, can be seen grabbing a younger man\u2019s hand before ripping away his phone and throwing it in the water.<\/p>\n
Long Island lawyer, Ronald David Ingber, was caught on video grabbing another man\u2019s phone and tossing it in the drink at the $95,000-a-year Wycliffe Country Club. Obtained by the NY Post<\/p>\n
The 49-second clip shows the stunned man frantically backing away, yelling and pointing at Ingber, shouting, \u201cYou f\u2013king\u2026!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat are you doing?\u201d the man\u2019s older female companion yelped at Ingber.<\/p>\n
\u201cCan you get my phone please?\u201d the man, clad in a grey T-shirt and black shorts, asks a swimmer before turning to staff.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe threw my phone in the pool!\u201d the man can be heard shouting in the footage. \u201cF\u2013k you, send this f\u2013ker to jail!\u201d<\/p>\n
Ingber briefly stared at him before turning away and sitting down as staffers arrived to separate the trio, the bystander footage shows.<\/p>\n
A second clip shows another view of the incident \u2014 with the younger man and the older woman squabbling with someone lounging by the pool \u2014 claiming the man had stolen their seats. <\/p>\n
As the clash unfolded, the woman loudly turned to people sitting nearby. <\/p>\n
\u201cAre you responsible for this?\u201d she demanded, pointing to the alleged seat-thief.<\/p>\n
The poolside beef didn\u2019t initially involved the 550-pound Ingber, his lawyer said. Obtained by the NY Post<\/p>\n
Ingber, a father of two, then got up and confronted the pair, grabbing the phone, another clip showed.<\/p>\n
Ingber was sued in October in Brooklyn Federal Court by his paramour, who claimed in court papers he smelled, gave her herpes, and tried to torture her by setting up secret cameras in her apartment, a tracker in her car, and a keystroke recorder on her computer. Ingber has vehemently denied the allegations in the lawsuit, which is pending.<\/p>\n
The incident at the country club was self-defense, Ingber insisted to The Post.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was approached. I thought somebody waved a weapon in front of me,\u201d he said, insisting the club has more videos. \u201cAnd I disarmed them, period.\u201d<\/p>\n
The attorney said he did not know the man and woman, who were yelling profanities and screaming in front of children and families in an apparent dispute over stolen poolside spots. <\/p>\n
The pair were arguing with someone sitting next to his family, then began yelling at Ingber\u2019s wife, who didn\u2019t know the people involved. <\/p>\n
Ingber said he was defending himself from people who were screaming profanities in front of families with kids. Obtained by the NY Post<\/p>\n
\u201cI defended myself,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The confrontation was a battle over pool chairs, \u201ca situation that went unchecked for an extended period despite staff presence,\u201d a lawyer for Ingber told The Post. <\/p>\n
The Ingber family wasn\u2019t involved in the original dispute and \u201cbecame collateral targets of the offender\u2019s anger,\u201d attorney Richard Portale added.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen one individual advanced aggressively toward my client, while raising an unidentified object toward his face, he reacted instinctively to protect himself, his wife and children and to stop what appeared to be an imminent threat,\u201d Portale said. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis situation was spiraling out of control and could have ended very differently, but thankfully no one was hurt and that is what matters most.\u201d<\/p>\n
The club downplayed the New Year\u2019s Eve episode.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was an isolated incident between two individuals that was addressed promptly by club management. There were no injuries and no ongoing safety concerns,\u201d general manager Rob Martin said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe matter was handled internally in accordance with our club policies and [Home Owners Association] regulations.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This was one heavyweight fight. A morbidly-obese, married Long Island lawyer once accused of tormenting his much younger…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27518,21139,3640,2850,9,11,10,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-95889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-cell-phones","9":"tag-country-clubs","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-lawsuits","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95889","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=95889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}