A hedge-funder tried to avoid fatherhood by offering his model girlfriend $75,000 to abort their child, according to a lawsuit.
Elmira Naymark, 32, a lithe, leggy brunette, met Ron Ozer through mutual friends in 2013 and the pair quickly hit it off, traveling the world during a two-and-a-half-year courtship.
Ozer, 29, a portfolio manager for Citadel who specializes in making multimillion-dollar natural-gas deals, had introduced Naymark to his parents, given her diamond earrings and even whisked her off to Miami for New Year’s.
When asked of marriage, he would coyly offer, “One day, I will surprise you,” Naymark says in court papers.
But when she told her lover in January that she was pregnant, Ozer grew cold, ordering her to “call the clinic” and “take a pill,” she claims.
When she said she was keeping the baby, he seethed, “I f–king hate you,” calling her “white trash” and “disgusting,” according to a Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit Naymark filed last week against Ozer.
Ozer, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology grad who owns a $2 million West Village pad in a building where Robert De Niro once lived, swore he would deny the child was his, court papers say.
He then had a colleague offer Naymark a pile of cash for her to abort the pregnancy, even suggesting she could use the money to freeze her eggs and have fertility treatments later “with the support network of a husband,” according to court papers.
“He wants to help you out and take care of this,” the friend allegedly texted Naymark. “This isn’t the only chance for you to have children. You don’t have to force this and do it alone.
“He’d be willing to offer a lump sum of money to you…I’m sure he would have no problem with 50k-75,000+.”
Naymark gave birth to a girl in September.
She claims Ozer hasn’t given her a dime,
forcing her to depend on Medicaid and food stamps, despite the fact that he made $60 million in a single business deal last year.
The young mother, who briefly worked as a Manhattan leasing agent, says she is trying to get her real-estate license and relies on her mother for child care.
She is asking a judge to force Ozer to fund a lifestyle for his daughter “proportionate with his vast wealth and income,” according to court papers.
Naymark is also asking for a paternity test, full custody of the girl, health insurance for the baby, funding for private schools and summer camps, and a $5 million life-insurance policy listing herself and their daughter as beneficiaries.
A lawyer for Ozer did not respond to a request for comment.