Chuck Barris Threatened by 85-Year Old Woman
We can’t make this stuff up….The Gong Show host Chuck Barris reportedly has been threatened by an 85-year old woman and co-tenant of the uber high class Trump Plaza.
And get this: It was the New York Law Journal that broke this story.
Barris, who claimed in his 2002 autobiography “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind” to have moonlighted as a CIA assassin while emceeing the popular 1970s TV talent show, is locked into a heated — and thus far mostly losing — legal battle with his 85-year-old co-op neighbor, Dorothea Weitzner.
Although technically a non-party to the case, Barris, 78, filed the series of complaints against Weitzner that led to the co-op board’s subsequent eviction proceedings against her.
“The first thing she ever said to me was this: ‘You better shut your door quietly or I’ll sue you,” Barris wrote in a 2003 letter to Trump Plaza’s board of directors. Weitzner’s alleged vitriol quickly escalated. “Her screaming has changed from just cursing and shouting to yelling vile obscenities and death threats.”
Barris and his wife, Mary, recorded the loud, persistent, furious, all-hours rants that they claim came through their wall. Barris’ letter to the board listed about a dozen examples, the font-size apparently increasing and decreasing to reflect the relative volume of specific diatribes.
In a 2005 letter to the board, Mr. Barris again detailed Weitzner’s threats, which included, “What you need is your head cracked open. I’ll get you, just you wait … I’ll get you, you cockroach. You faggot. Your wife’s mother’s a slut.”
Weitzner frequently accused the Barrises of spying on her apartment, as evidenced — according to Weitzner herself — by their shared use of the same venereal-disease specialist. In a deposition taken in the course of the ejectment proceedings, an attorney for Trump Plaza asked Weitzner if she threatened to slice Mr. Barris’ body part.
Barris repeatedly complained to the Trump Plaza’s board of directors. On two separate occasions, his phone calls to the police led to Weitzner’s involuntary confinement for psychiatric services, once over night and once for one month, according to documents filed by Weitzner’s attorney, solo-practitioner Kenneth J. Glassman.
