Comedienne Joan Rivers and her neighbors are headed back to court on Thursday in their bid to evict the flamboyant blonde bombshell on the first floor of their posh Upper East Side condominium.
The condominium's board claimed in court papers filed Friday that Elizabeth Hazan, 41, has created a fire hazard for the building at 1 East 62 St. by not paying her Con Edison bill and using candles to light her street level unit at night.
The board, which Rivers heads, also said Hazan has made a nuisance of herself to unit owners.
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"Accompanied by a gaggle of reporters, (she) attempted to storm the building...forcing police to close down the street ...(and) preventing at least one unit owner from leaving the building," the board's lawyer, Kevin Smith, said in an affidavit.
Cynthia Maltese, a board member, said that when Hazan staged her confrontation last month to get back into the building, she couldn't get out the front door to walk her dog so she carried the pooch through the basement.
"My dog is elderly and could not walk up and down the steps to the basement," Maltese, 74, said.
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Forty-five minutes later, she added, the commotion in front of the building forced her to exit again through the basement so she could keep a doctor's appointment.
"I was concerned that Hazan — who had been in the press cursing and saying awful things about our Board president — would identify me as a Board member so that the press would swarm me as I attempted to leave the building."
Hazan has called Rivers "the worst dressed woman in the world," among other things.
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The condo board has asked the court to bar Hazan and the owners of the street level unit from using the lavishly decorated $2 million apartment until they obey the building's rules by proving they have homeowner insurance, provide a front door key and pay overdue monthly fees..
The board's lawyer Kevin Smith said Hazan, who sold the unit to a Belize corporation last summer, still owes more than $200,000 in condominium fees from the time that she was an owner, and the current corporate owner hasn't paid any fees since it took over the title in July.
The board is also asking Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Anil Singh to sanction Hazan's lawyer, Darius Marzec, for staging last month's confrontation just hours before he went to court to demand that Hazan be allowed into the unit as a 'guest' of the corporation.
As Singh was ruling that the condominium could bar Hazan from the apartment, police were letting her back into the apartment.
In a letter to the judge filed Monday, Marzec scoffs at the notion that his client is using too many candles and insists that Singh cannot order Hazan to be evicted because that kind of procedure belongs only in housing court, not Supreme Court.
Hazan is also battling to stay in the Florida mansion she calls home on Fisher Island. She has been branded a deadbeat there where the seller has accused her of defaulting on the $5.1 million mortgage.
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