Yehuda Sadok
A Brooklyn man posed as an Israeli secret agent with pals
like Robert DeNiro, Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu to swindle an elderly
Manhattan woman out of $20 million worth of her company’s jewelry, court papers
state.
Starting in 2009, Yehuda Sadok, 48, who also went by Oody
Geffen, wooed jewelry company owner Emilie Martin who was 30 years his senior and convinced her of a plan to sell jewelry to the ruling Sheikh of Dubai,
according to the court papers, filed in Manhattan by Martin’s two daughters.
“The stories Oody told Emilie would have been rejected by James Bond creator Ian Fleming as ridiculous,” a lawyer for Martin’s
daughters said in the papers.
“Oody told Emilie that he was a ‘top five Mossad agent,’
kept a cyanide capsule in his tooth, went fishing with [Russian President]
Vladamir Putin, and was friends with Robert DeNiro and [Israeli Prime Minister]
Benjamin Netanyahu.”
Martin became furious with her daughters, Claudia Difabrizio
of Park Avenue and Sarah Lee Martin of Connecticut, when they tried to stop her
from giving Sadok the company’s $20 million worth of jewelry for the Dubai sale
because associates in the industry told them he was involved with the Russian
mob, court papers state.
After a court settlement that resulted in Martin promising
to cut ties with Sadok and splitting her company with her daughters, she signed
over the bulk of her fortune to four estranged siblings and their children,
court papers state. She died in 2011 at age 78.
The daughters are now suing in Manhattan Surrogate’s Court
to have that will thrown out and an earlier version reinstated.
Sadok could not immediately be reached for comment.
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