In papers filed in Manhattan Surrogate’s Court, two women, Claudia DiFabrizio and Sarah Lee Martin, allege that Yehuda Sadok (pictured), pretended to be an Israeli spy in an attempt to swindle money out of their late mother, Emilie Martin.
It was “True Lies,” Brooklyn style.
A Brighton Beach man posing as an Israeli spy conned an Upper East Side widow out of hundreds of thousands of dollars — and nearly duped her out of $ 20 million, court papers charge.
In papers filed in Manhattan Surrogate’s Court, daughters of the victim, Claudia DiFabrizio and Sarah Lee Martin, said a huckster named Yehuda Sadok, 48, convinced their mother he was a secret agent who’d go fishing with Vladimir Putin and once “killed an Arab with his bare hands.”
Using the name Oody Geffen, Sadok “convinced my mother that he is a former intelligence officer from Mossad (the Israeli Secret Service), keeps a cyanide capsule in his mouth, has a close personal connection to Russia’s Vladimir Putin and the Israeli Prime Minister, and is a friend of film actor Robert De Niro,” DiFabrizio said in court papers.
The daughter said “Oody” used the far-fetched tales to ingratiate himself with her mom, Emilie Martin, who owned a jewelry business. She was 30 years older than him and suffered “from paranoid narcissistic personality disorder, a condition she has suffered from her entire adult life,” DiFabrizio added.
The daughters said they finally met him a few months after the pair started seeing each other in 2009. He said he was supposed to have dinner with Robert De Niro, but chose to have dinner with my mother instead because “‘she is more important to me than Robert De Niro,’” DiFabrizio said, adding that her mom “was acting like a schoolgirl in love.”
Oody — who also claimed to be a movie producer — convinced Martin in the fall of 2009 to let him sell her jewelry in Dubai, telling her she should hand over $ 20 million in inventory from her business so he could have a “private sale” for Sheikh Mohammed, his family and friends, according to court papers.
He convinced Martin they’d use the profits to buy “a fancy condominium in Abu Dhabi where they would live happily ever after,” court filings say.
The daughters, who owned 60 percent of the jewelry business, went to court to stop the plot in 2009.
They succeeded — but it cost them. Their divorcee mom, still convinced that Oody was her true love, cut them out of her will.
The mom died in 2011, and now the daughters are seeking to get that will thrown out, charging she was still operating under “an insane delusion” when she disinherited them in favor of her siblings.
Sadok could not be reached.
He told DNAinfo.com that he and Martin had been friends, but denied romancing or trying to cheat her.
“Robert De Niro, Mossad, who says something like that?” he told the website. “I never met Robert De Niro in my life.”
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