From the New York Post: The bitter legal fight over a $13.2 million trophy Upper East Side townhouse — and the housekeeper who’s allegedly squatting inside — has taken a far more serious turn.
Family members of the late mattress entrepreneur Craig Schmeizer are calling for police to reopen the investigation into his 2025 death after newly surfaced records revealed that his live-in housekeeper, Hilarie Page, had been arrested for an unrelated assault just weeks before he died from blunt-force trauma to the head, The Post has learned.
The news comes on the heels of an unusual lawsuit recently filed in Manhattan Supreme Court. The entity that owns the 6,650-square-foot property alleges Page remains in the home with no right and that she’s blocking estate reps from entering, in part, for Schmeizer’s estranged wife and trustee, 45-year-old Sarah Shalev, to retrieve family heirlooms. The suit aims to remove Page from the home and seeks $49,000 per month in use and occupancy.
The report explains that Schmeizer, 52, was found unresponsive in November inside his four-story limestone NYC mansion.
The medical examiner report said Schmeizer’s cause of death was “subdural hemorrhage due to blunt force trauma of head,” with chronic alcohol use listed as a contributing factor.
Shockingly, NYPD reportedly ruled the manner of death as “undetermined,” and closed the case.
An NYPD spokesperson told the NY Post, “There was no criminality.”
But Schmeizer’s family isn’t buying it, telling the Post, “We still do not know how he sustained the blunt force trauma to the head. Given what we’ve witnessed directly of Hilarie and her actions and her volatile behavior, I even spoke to the detective and argued strongly that I do not believe that it was an accident.”
The New York Post shared a photo of Schmeizer showing blood dripping from his face and all over his shirt, following the assault just weeks before he died.
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