Justin Theroux Wants Protection From 'Creepy' Village Neighbor

GREENWICH VILLAGE, NY — A long-simmering feud between the actor Justin Theroux and his Greenwich Village neighbor escalated this week after Theroux asked a judge to formally prohibit his neighbor from stepping foot on his property.

Theroux and his neighbor Norman Resnicow have been fighting since 2015, when the actor began renovating his apartment. Theroux, star of "The Leftovers," is married to the actor Jennifer Anniston.

On Monday, Theroux's legal team filed documents requesting that Resnicow be prohibited by court order from stepping onto Theroux's property, as first reported by the New York Post. Theroux said in court documents that his neighbor was "trying to make me feel unsafe in my own home." Theroux first sued his neighbor in May.

The legal dispute escalated this year when Resnicow began trespassing onto Theroux's property to take photos, according to Theroux. The actor also said that Resnicow let Daily Mail reporters into their apartment building's storage space. The Daily Mail later published a piece titled "Here's Justin's Junk!" with photographs from the communal storage area. Theroux described Resnicow's actions as "patently creepy."

"I realized that by bringing third parties into the storage area and up to the back door and windows of my apartment, Mr. Resnicow was trying to make me feel unsafe in my own home," Theroux wrote.

He said that he was "left with no other viable alternative but to seek a court order to protect me and my family from his further unlawful intrusions."

Patch was not immediately able to contact Resnicow's attorney for comment.

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