Saturday, October 26, 2013

Girl, 14, fumes against financier daddy in divorce ‘fight’


A seething teenage girl caught in her parents’ bitter “War of the Roses” divorce testified against her estranged father in a Manhattan court Friday as he sobbed at the defense table.


Beverly Milberg, 14, accused her father of viciously assaulting her mother during a fight over an iPhone.



David Milberg.Photo: Steven Hirsch



“My dad was attacking my mom. He was kicking her and hitting her head and pouncing on top of her,” Beverly testified at the non-jury trial in Manhattan Supreme Court, facing her father for the first time since the alleged violence.


“I kept telling him to stop and started hitting his back repeatedly because he wouldn’t listen,” she said.


After her mom escaped to the master bathroom, David chased after her, “gritted his teeth and said, ‘I’m going to kill you. I’m going to kill you,’ ” Beverly recalled as her father, former Lehman Brothers vice president David Milberg, 50, sobbed and shook his head at the defense table.


Moments later the police arrived at the family’s luxurious $ 6.5 million co-op on West End Avenue.


“My dad got street clothes on, and they handcuffed him and put him on a chair in the dining room,” she said, avoiding his gaze.


Melinda Milberg, 50, is battling her financier husband in a multimillion-dollar divorce.


The April 1 tussle began when the spurned husband defiantly moved back into the family’s Upper West Side home. Melinda made nasty comments in front of their three children.


He responded by whipping out his iPhone and proclaiming he’d recorded her vitriolic outbursts — and the two tumbled to the ground wrestling over control of the device.


When Beverly was asked how the ordeal made her feel, she replied, “very disgusted and uneasy.”


The teen’s grandparents Ellen and Leonard Milberg wept in the gallery as they heard her testify against their son.


“This is our first grandchild, the apple of our eye,” said Ellen. “It’s very, very sad.”


The young girl refused to greet her heartbroken grandparents or father when they passed in the courthouse hallway.


After the nasty incident, Melinda and Beverly took out restraining orders against David. Beverly was told she could see her father if she wanted, but she has refused.


The defense has argued that Melinda goaded the Princeton grad into chomping on her arm so she could gain leverage in the divorce.


“She firmly believes should David be convicted in this case, her millions will be multiplied,” said defense attorney Celia Gordon.


Prosecutors tried to portray Melinda as a devoted wife of 16 years who suffered the attack for demanding the split.


Melinda filed for divorce on March 1 and they agreed to take turns living with their three kids in the family home while the other party holed up in a nearby hotel.


But the money man suddenly moved back in.





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