The Brighton Beach man accused of posing as a Mossad agent to woo an elderly jewelry mogul is fighting back — saying a suit filed against him is just sour grapes by the woman’s moneygrabbing daughters.
As The Post reported Monday, Yehuda “Oody” Sadok is accused in court papers of pretending to be a high-flying secret agent with ties to Vladmir Putin in order to impress late millionaire jewelry dealer Emilie Martin. Her daughters, Claudia Difabrizio and Sarah Lee Martin, have filed suit in Manhattan Surrogate’s Court to overturn their mother’s will and claim in the filing that Sadok was trying to con Emilie out of $20 million, and when they warned her, she cut them out of her inheritance.
But Sadok denies to Page Six that he ever claimed to be a Mossad agent, and says he met Martin through a mutual friend and ex-FBI agent who asked him to track down an Israeli who’d stolen $1 million in jewels from her. They became friends when he recovered $850,000 of the gems.
“She was a lovely, simple . . . lady who was like my grandmother,” Sadok said. He added that Martin confided she had “two spoiled daughters” she’d lavished with “the best schools, the best clothes,” but they’d “become ‘two devils.’ They were very mean and rude to their mother.”
Sadok, a father of five, said Martin told him of her kids, “ ‘They’re waiting for me to die. You have to help me. They want to be in control of my money.’ I felt bad for her.” Sadok says Martin suggested he marry her, but he declined, adding, “If I was a con artist, I would have married her.”
The daughters said Emilie’s $11 million estate was originally left to them, but after disagreeing over Sadok, Emilie — who died in 2011 at 78 — cut them out of her will and left the money to her siblings. “I didn’t get a penny,” Sadok said. “They didn’t get the money. Karma is a bitch. Now they’re jeopardizing my reputation.”
Sadok says that it was Martin who told her daughters he was a Mossad agent to scare them from bullying her. Sadok’s lawyer, Robert Hantman, added, “We intend to bring to justice all persons responsible for the false allegations.”
Sadok also denied he ever said he was pals with Russian leader Putin (“I wish I was”), or that he claimed to know Robert De Niro, as the suit alleges. He contends that a friend who was a regular on “The Sopranos” was casting a film and trying to get De Niro for a role, and that he’d introduced that TV actor to Martin at her office. “That’s how they got this idea I was a producer,” Sadok said, “and came [up] with this nonsense about De Niro, [who] I never met in my life.”
Court papers allege that Sadok once explained to Martin’s daughters at a family meal that, “he was supposed to have dinner with Robert De Niro, but chose to have dinner with my mother instead.”
Reps for Difabrizio and Martin didn’t return calls.