Former Donald Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort’s daughter has been raking in more than $30,000 a month illegally renting out three Manhattan apartments through Airbnb, a landlord claims.
Jessica Manafort, 34, whose dad spent six months running Trump’s campaign before being ousted in August, and her husband, Jeffrey Yohai, also 34, have been advertising three Soho apartments in the same Broome Street building for $699 a night each, plus fees, according to a lawsuit.
Yohai vehemently denied the allegations.
“The apartments were never rented out on Airbnb,” said Yohai, who insisted, “My wife and father-in-law have nothing to do with it.”
Yohai says the couple, who leased the three units for $10,500 in monthly rent each, in June 2015, housed film crews there instead of renting hotel rooms last year while he shot a movie.
Yohai and Manafort are planning their own lawsuit against landlord Goose Mountain NYC, said their lawyer Steve Czik, adding the apartments lacked heat and hot water — and a certificate of occupancy — for months.
“How could we get $699 for an apartment like that?” Czik said, adding, “This is a retaliatory move.”
An image included in Goose Mountain’s lawsuit shows an alleged Airbnb ad for the apartment, with a photo of a sunny room and the words “Beautiful full floor loft Soho,” in capital letters. It lists a man named “Matthew” as the contact.
Yohai and his lawyer say they were illegally locked out of the homes for months, and that if anyone was renting units on Airbnb, it was Goose Mountain, not they. A Goose Mountain lawyer did not return calls for comment.