Jeffrey Kolsrud, left, is suing his estranged husband Franco LaCosta.
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Harvey Weinstein’s repute is up to now down the bathroom, that when a Manhattan man allegedly in contrast his estranged husband to the disgraced moviemaker he was slapped with a defamation lawsuit.
Jeffrey Kolsrud, director of Q Mannequin Administration, is the “Harvey Weinstein of the modeling world,” his soon-to-be ex, Franco LaCosta, instructed a Q worker in a telephone name, Kolsrud claims within the litigation.
It’s not clear why LaCosta in contrast Kolsrud to Weinstein, who was convicted of rape in February 2020 after a sensational Manhattan trial. The NYPD stated it has no file of complaints towards Kolsrud, who contends the comparability to Weinstein has broken his repute.
However that’s not all, Kolsrud contends in his Manhattan Supreme Court docket papers.
LaCosta, who appeared in three seasons of “The Bachelor” and in addition labored on “The Bachelorette,” allegedly disparaged Kolsrud as a “narcissistic, sociopath” and a liar throughout a podcast look, Kolsrud says within the authorized submitting.
And Kolsrud is emotionally abusive, falsely claimed to have most cancers and at one level lied about bleeding from his penis, LaCosta instructed the podcast, in accordance with the courtroom papers.
The November episode of “The Bare Encore” has since been faraway from the present’s listings.
The couple share an adopted daughter and have been married since 2012, and are within the midst of a divorce, courtroom information present.
It’s the second lawsuit between the star-crossed pair in latest weeks: LaCosta sued Kolsrud in December, claiming he was being denied possession curiosity of their two- bed room, $1.6 million Chelsea condominium after years of serving to to pay the mortgage.
“This can be a very sophisticated case,” LaCosta stated, earlier than hanging up on a Put up reporter.
Attorneys for Kolsrud didn’t reply to a message looking for remark.
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