Justin Theroux's West Vil Neighbor Faces Ouster Amid Umbrella War

WEST VILLAGE, NY — Actor Justin Theroux's West Village co-op made moves this week to kick out a tenant they say let paparazzi into the building, harassed neighbors and trespassed in their homes, court records show.

But the tenant, real estate attorney Norman Resnicow, says the board is retaliating against him for standing up to the Hollywood celebrity who shines bright lights in his window and uses a large umbrella on the rooftop terrace they share.

"Theroux gets away with things like that because he dominates the co-op board," Resnicow told Patch. "[There are] awful things Theroux has done and continues to do to us."

Owners of the 71 Washington Place co-op filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to force Resnicow from the apartment he's owned for 18 years and pay monetary damages for the harm he's caused, court records show.

The board accuses Resnicow of harassing workers in the building's penthouse, screaming in the hallways at board "directors" and inviting a Daily Mail camera crew into the Washington Place building, the complaint shows.

"Mr. Resnicow purposely publicized the Building and the private dealings of its shareholders to a global audience, without the shareholders’ permission and without any regard for the privacy concerns of the shareholders," the lawsuit claims.

This move comes after the board sent two objectionable-conduct letters to Resnicow and his wife earlier this month, and voted to terminate Resnicow's lease, according to the complaint.

The Resnicows received a five-day notice of termination on Feb. 7 but, as of Tuesday, had not left the co-op building.

But Resnicow contends the board is pushing him out because he defended himself from Theroux and then-wife Jennifer Aniston, who sued him in 2017 for a "for a campaign of harassment" after they started a renovation.

The actor is best known for his work in "The Leftovers," "Wanderlust" and "The Girl On The Train."

Theroux lives directly above the Resnicows in the West Village building, and they share a second-floor terrace, according to court documents.

The southern portion of the terrace goes to the Resnicows, and the northern part goes to Theroux, court documents read.

The Resnicows filed a lawsuit against the board in September 2021, accusing the Greenwich Village co-op of trying to evict them by making their life "miserable," court papers show.

The Resnicows also filed a countersuit in December 2021, accusing Theroux of extending a deck umbrella that crosses onto the Resnicows' side of the roof.

“Each encroachment of the fully-opened canopy upon the Resnicow portion of the second-floor roof terrace constitutes a trespass," reads the suit. “The repeated trespasses were performed with actual malice, or alternatively amounted to a wanton, willful, or reckless disregard of the Resnicows’ rights."

At the time of the 2021 suit, the co-op board told Page Six the Resnicows' lawsuit was "meritless."

“This is a meritless lawsuit intended to distract from Mr. Resnicow’s long-term, documented objectionable and abusive conduct toward his neighbors, building employees, vendors and his wife,” the co-op board said in their statement.

The Resnicows' legal team argues they are entitled to compensation for the "trespassing."

The New York County Supreme Court has not made a judgment yet on the lawsuit filed on Tuesday seeking to remove the Resnicows from their apartment.