The family of the man living large in a SoHo loft despite allegedly paying no rent say he’s a con artist who honed his skills of deception on them before moving to the city.
Corey Mayer — who goes by Corey von Furstenberg — continually lied to his family and was prone to violent outbursts, including one occasion in which he locked his hands around their mother’s throat in their Norwich, Conn., home, said his sister Kari Mayer.
“He (looked like he) wanted to kill her,” she said of the incident, which she says occurred in the early 2000s.
“He was literally choking her,” Mayer recalled. “He was just in a fit of rage … I mean explosive rage.”
The Mayer family has been mostly estranged from the 38-year-old since then.
Corey Mayer claims to own a high-flying publicity firm, but the last job his family knows about was at a local Walmart, and he got fired, she said.
The family had no idea Mayer had taken the surname von Furstenberg and moved into a $15,000 a month loft, she said.
Mayer/Von Furstenberg has been sued by his landlord, who claims he’s $100,000 in arrears.
picture: vintage inspired wedding dressesThe landlord also said Mayer secured the apartment by falsely suggesting he was related to the celebrated designer Diane von Furstenberg, the suit said. Kari Mayer says her brother continually lied about having famous connections dating back to his teenage years.
Speaking from inside the luxury unit at 496 Broadway on Monday, Mayer showed the Daily News a passport in the name of Corey von Furstenberg.
“Never did I acquire 496 at any way shape or form using Diane von Furstenberg’s name as any type of familiar anything in a name. There’s no record of it, there’s no nothing of it,” he said.
Mayer insisted that he got the lavish penthouse — a two-bedroom, two-bath unit with three sky lights, a fireplace, a chef’s kitchen and a rooftop deck — in November 2014 on his own merits.
He paid the rent from his earnings as a publicist, he said. From May to August that year, he had no gas, so he began to withhold rent in September, he told The News.
He pointed to the opulent furnishings — inculding a graceful chandelier and hanging artwork — as proof of his solvency.
“I just kind of laugh about it. I’m laughing out of anger but it doesn’t strike me as funny and you just go with it. They wanna ‘Mean Girl’ me in the press? Mean Girl me,” he said, of the landlord’s lawsuit.
As for his family, Mayer claimed that both his sister and his mother have mental health issues, and he denied the allegations they made against him.
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