(Page Six) - Billionaire John Paulson is determined to reduce paying out his estranged wife, Jenny, and is using Page Six’s story of his girlfriend Alina de Almeida’s DUI arrest as the means of doing so.
Court documents filed in a New Jersey Court exclusively obtained by Page Six show the hedge fund manager and his attorneys are attempting to subpoena a private investigator he believes Jenny hired to gain information on de Almeida.
The filing includes a letter from John’s attorneys that states if Jenny was responsible for leaking the police report and “generating negative publicity” about the financier, it would be relevant to the “equitable distribution” of assets in their ongoing bitter divorce battle.
The letter further states that it would vacate any idea of an equal payout and instead would remand “for further proceedings to determine the effect of [Jenny’s] conduct.”
Subsequently filed court documents show the PI’s attorney arguing the subpoena should be quashed because John, 68, cannot prove the information his team is seeking is “relevant” to the pair’s divorce.
“Simply put, there is no connection between Mrs. Paulson and the [open records] request submitted by
Apple Consulting,” the document states.
The letter further states that it would vacate any idea of an equal payout and instead would remand “for further proceedings to determine the effect of [Jenny’s] conduct.”
Subsequently filed court documents show the PI’s attorney arguing the subpoena should be quashed because John, 68, cannot prove the information his team is seeking is “relevant” to the pair’s divorce.
“Simply put, there is no connection between Mrs. Paulson and the [open records] request submitted by
Apple Consulting,” the document states.
Jenny’s legal advisor, former White House special counsel Lanny Davis, declined to comment on the details of the motion “except to confirm that neither I nor Bob Cohen nor Mrs. Paulson had knowledge of this story before or ahead of time and nothing to do, directly or indirectly, with disclosure of this information to anyone — despite the baseless accusations made or suggested through innuendo to the contrary.”
A spokesperson for Paulson, however, claims “someone is engaging in a vicious campaign to malign” de Almeida and John.
“Investigator Nanos reported that he searched records to uncover information about Ms. de Almeida at approximately 100 law enforcement agencies across New Jersey. New Jersey and federal privacy laws may have been violated in the process,” the spokesperson tells Page Six.
“Curiously, Jenny Paulson’s lawyers joined with the private investigator to suppress information and hide the true identity of whoever is behind this. Why? Mr. Paulson intends to get to the bottom of this and hold the wrongdoers responsible.”
A source close to the case, meanwhile, said that John’s and his legal team’s efforts to undermine Jenny and her attorneys are abnormal.
“It is unusual if not bizarre for the party in a divorce action who is upset by a public guilty plea by his companion to attack counsel and the other party without any basis whatsoever — with the result of publicizing the very arrest and conviction of the companion that he’s upset about,” the insider shared.
Page Six broke the news in January that Butler, N.J., police arrested de Almeida, 35, in March 2018 after she drove a car into a yard. The police report claimed that the dietitian’s blood alcohol content was 0.16 — double the legal limit.
She pleaded guilty in the fall of 2018, had her license suspended for seven months and had to attend 12 hours of alcohol school, records showed.
John met his much younger girlfriend in the summer of 2021 and had her moved into his swanky Fifth Avenue apartment in Olympic Tower by September of that year.
John — who famously made $20 billion betting against the housing market before the 2008 crash — had filed for divorce from Jenny, his wife of 21 years, just days before news of his new romance made headlines.
The now-former couple didn’t have a prenup in place, putting his billions, their immense real estate portfolio and even their foundation on the chopping block to be divided.
The estranged couple eventually pulled their divorce filing with plans to settle outside of court, but mediation stalled. John ultimately re-filed for divorce, which is ongoing.
By Francesca Bacardi
March 14, 2024
