NEW AFFRONT IN 'WAR OF ROSES' DIVORCE
An infamous divorcée wannabe is hoping what happens in Brooklyn doesn't have to stay in Brooklyn.
Chana Taub, whose nasty divorce clash with her husband, Simon, was dubbed "the War of the Roses" after a judge ordered the pair to split their home with a makeshift wall, is now trying to open a new battlefront against her estranged hubby - in Manhattan.
Taub, 57, has filed a new divorce suit against her sweater-mogul husband in Manhattan Supreme Court, charging him with cruelty and adultery, just weeks after a Brooklyn jury rejected similar claims, leaving the pair unhappily married.
Her lawyer, Irvin Rosenthal, said the new suit deals with Simon's actions since she filed for divorce the first time, in September 2005.
"He's committed acts of cruelty and adultery since then," Rosenthal said, adding that the case was filed in Manhattan because "we felt a woman in the Hasidic community can't get a fair trial in Brooklyn."
Simon Taub, 58, wants the case transferred to Brooklyn and accused his estranged wife of "judge shopping."
"If she doesn't like what happens in Manhattan, then she'll go to Queens," he said after a hearing yesterday in Manhattan Supreme Court.
The two-year fight made headlines when, despite owning several pieces of property, both refused to move out their Borough Park brownstone and Simon, with judicial approval, built a wall to split the home in two.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/05152007/news/regionalnews/new_affront_in_war_of_roses_divorce_regionalnews_dareh_gregorian.htm
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