Former Douglas Elliman CEO Howard Lorber has admitted to having “intimate relationships” with two of the real estate giant's brokers before abruptly leaving last month — including , including the former actress who was the mother of Jack Nicholson's estranged Aiko. .
The company said Loeber's resignation, who resigned on Oct. 22 amid a series of sexual harassment accusations against former employees, “was not due to any disagreement with the company on any matter regarding the company's operations, policies or practices.” Ta. Regulatory filings at the time.
But in October, just two weeks before his departure was announced, the company's lawyers grilled the longtime CEO about his private life and allegations swirling within the company during a five-hour video call, according to Bloomberg. It is said that he did.
The questions included questions about Mr. Lorber's relationship with the company's current 51-year-old broker, Jenine Gorin. Over the years, the two have appeared in numerous photos taken at glamorous banquets and dinners.
Lawyers for Mr. Loeber told Bloomberg that Elliman does not have a policy prohibiting consensual relationships between employees and independent brokers.
Lorber and Gorin, who are credited by IMDB as playing “schoolgirls” in the 1982 film The Little Sex, starring Tim Matheson and Kate Capshaw, appeared together at a horse show in the Hamptons in 2013. I was seen where I was. According to Page Six archives.
Jenin earned more than $500,000 in fees in 2013 and 2014, according to data provided to Bloomberg by Douglas Maynard, an attorney representing Mr. Lorber.
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In the 1990s, Jenin, then a waitress, reportedly had an affair with a movie star from the movie The Shining. Tessa Gorin, who is often called Nicholson, was born in 1994.
Mr. Lorber's revelations come amid intense scrutiny of Douglas Elliman after two former star brokers, brothers Tal and Oren Alexander, were accused of sexual assault in an incident dating back to when they joined the company in 2008. It was held in the midst of The two have not been charged with any crime. He committed a crime and left the company in 2022.
Bloomberg reported that the company's investigation into Mr. Lorber began following sexual allegations against Mr. Oren and Tal Alexander.
Mr. Lorber also claimed to have had an affair with Jessica Cohen, the firm's award-winning agent, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg. Cohen is one of the women who came forward against the Alexander brothers over the summer.
she told the New York Times In 2010, she reportedly drank with Tal, Oren, and their third son, Aron, at a birthday party in Manhattan. She doesn't remember anything for the next five hours. She told The New York Times that she only woke up after midnight at Mount Sinai West Hospital.
A time-stamped photo taken by a friend and seen by the newspaper reportedly shows Cohen passed out with his hands clasped on Tal's shoulders. Cohen said he told Loeber about the incident two years later during a chess match and begged him not to tell anyone.
Cohen's lawyer said she was the victim and had not profited in any way from her alleged relationship with Lorber.
“The idea that Ms. Cohen had a 'romantic' relationship with Mr. Lorber, or that such a relationship facilitated her rise to becoming a top broker, is completely false,” her attorney Michael said. Willemyn told The Post via email. -Mailed statement.
“Mr. Cohen was a top broker long before she met Mr. Lorber, and the treatment she received at the hands of Mr. Lorber and at the hands of Douglas Elliman had a material negative impact on her life and career. .”
But Ms. Maynard, Ms. Lorber's lawyer, said in a statement that “Ms. Cohen's attorney's statements are false and directly contradict what she has told many people orally and in writing over the years.''
Tal Alexander's lawyer told Bloomberg: “Whoever investigates these matters will determine our conclusion that Tal did nothing wrong.”
Lawyers for Oren and Aron and representatives for Douglas Elliman declined to comment. Jenin and Maynard did not respond to requests for further comment.
As for Gorlin, Nicholson has never publicly acknowledged that Tessa is his daughter, but his paternity is considered an “open secret” in Hollywood. According to the Daily Beast.
“My mom wanted me to have a relationship with him, but she said she wasn't interested,” Tessa said last year.
Tessa said that when she was a child, her mother instructed her not to tell anyone that she had a famous father.
“I knew he was powerful and rich on the level of Papa Warbucks, so I thought of my life as being like Annie the Orphan,” she told The Daily Beast.
Meanwhile, in 2018, The Real Deal reported Lorber bought a Park Avenue apartment for his wife, Thea Holman, for $11 million, but they did not live together for at least 10 years.
A special committee of the board conducted a detailed investigation of Mr. Lorber after the directors determined that the review of his conduct by Mr. Lorber's longtime lawyer, Mark Kasowitz, was insufficient, and a special committee of the board of directors investigated Mr. Lorber and found him guilty of two extramarital affairs. His actions, including those in the United States, were deemed inappropriate, a person familiar with the matter told Bloomberg.
Mr. Maynard told Bloomberg that the idea that Mr. Loeber was fired because his actions were deemed inappropriate by a special committee is “false and contrary to what the company has disclosed.”
Douglas Elliman has been an independent public company since its spinoff from Vector Group in 2021. This real estate company has a market capitalization of $178.6 million.
When Mr. Lorber left the company, he forfeited unvested shares that would have been worth about $4.3 million if canceled, according to regulatory filings obtained by Bloomberg. He was also disqualified from receiving severance pay worth approximately $6.4 million, the report said.
