A Park Avenue doctor’s teenage son allegedly launched a bizarre smear campaign against the Mark Hotel; hiring protesters to wave signs accusing the business of supporting pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and “denying the Holocaust,” according to a new lawsuit.
19-year-old Theodore Weintraub reportedly concocted the scheme after he was booted from the five-star hotel for repeatedly trying to buy drinks with a fake ID, according to a lawsuit filed last week in Manhattan Supreme Court. He allegedly paid the demonstrators to chant with signs that falsely declared “The Mark Supports [Jeffrey] Epstein,” “The Mark Denies the Holocaust” and “The Mark Spreads Disease,” according to the filing from July 27.
Winetraub has a troubled history with the hotel; after being unable to secure drinks as a 17-year-old, he later made multiple tense appearances in later years and was once flagged by security when eating dinner with his “well-known” doctor father. Soon enough he was reportedly causing the trouble he is being accused of fermenting.
On Thursday, the hotel filed a temporary restraining order banning the teen from “protesting, demonstrating, chanting, or otherwise picketing within 150 feet” of the building.
The suit alleges defamation and seeks a restraining order as well as other unspecified damages.
