Ex-Douglas Elliman CEO Howard Lorber had ‘intimate relationships’ with brokers — including mother of Jack Nicholson’s love child: report

Former Douglas Elliman CEO Howard Lorber admitted earlier he abruptly retired past period that he’d had “intimate relationships” pinch 2 brokers astatine nan existent property elephantine – including a erstwhile character who was nan mother of Jack Nicholson’s estranged emotion child, according to a report.

The exit of Lorber, who retired connected Oct. 22 nether a unreality of intersexual harassment accusations against erstwhile employees, “was not owed to immoderate disagreement pinch nan institution connected immoderate matter relating to nan company’s operations, policies aliases practices,” nan institution said successful a regulatory filing astatine nan time.

But lawyers for nan institution had grilled nan longtime main executive connected his individual life and nan allegations swirling wrong nan patient during a five-hour-long video telephone successful October – conscionable 2 weeks earlier his status was announced, according to Bloomberg.

Those included questions astir nan 76-year-old Lorber’s narration pinch Jennine Gourin, a now 51-year-old agent astatine nan firm. The brace person appeared successful galore photos that were snapped astatine glitzy banquets and dinners complete nan years.

Lorber’s lawyer told Bloomberg that Elliman had nary argumentation prohibiting consensual relationships betwixt labor and independent brokers

Lorber and Gourin — who is credited by IMDB arsenic playing a “schoolgirl” successful nan 1982 movie “A LIttle Sex” starring Tim Matheson and Kate Capshaw — were spotted together astatine a Hamptons equine show successful 2013, according to Page Six archives.

In 2013 and 2014, Jennine netted much than half a cardinal dollars successful commissions, according to information provided by Douglass Maynard, a lawyer representing Lorber, to Bloomberg.

“When asked, Mr. Lorber connected juncture recommended Ms. Gourin, arsenic he has done pinch hundreds of different agents, some antheral and female,” Maynard told Bloomberg, noting that developers and customers sometimes activity proposal connected which agents to use.

In nan 1990s, Jennine, past a waitress, reportedly had a fling pinch “The Shining” movie star. Tessa Gourin, a dormant ringer for Nicholson, was calved successful 1994.

Lorber’s revelation comes arsenic Douglas Elliman has faced accrued scrutiny aft 2 of its erstwhile prima brokers, brothers Tal and Oren Alexander, were accused of intersexual assault successful incidents making love backmost to their commencement astatine nan patient successful 2008. The brace person not been charged pinch immoderate crimes and near nan patient successful 2022.

Bloomberg reported that nan company’s enquiry into Lorber was launched successful nan aftermath of intersexual allegations against Oren and Tal Alexander.

Lorber besides claimed he had a narration pinch Jessica Cohen, an award-winning supplier astatine nan firm, nan root told Bloomberg. Cohen is 1 of nan women who stepped guardant against nan Alexander brothers complete nan summer.

She told The New York Times that successful 2010, she had a portion pinch Tal, Oren and their 3rd relative Alon astatine a day statement successful Manhattan. She does not retrieve thing from nan adjacent 5 hours – only waking up aft midnight astatine Mount Sinai West Hospital, she told The New York Times. 

Time-stamped photos taken by a friend and reviewed by nan insubstantial reportedly show Cohen passed retired connected Tal’s enarthrosis pinch their hands intertwined. Cohen said she told Lorber during a crippled of chess 2 years later astir nan incident and begged him not to show anyone.

Cohen’s lawyer said she was a unfortunate and did not use successful immoderate measurement from Lorber’s alleged relationship.

“Any conception that Ms. Cohen had a ‘romantic’ narration pinch Mr. Lorber, aliases that immoderate specified narration made it easier for her to go a apical agent is categorically false,” her attorney, Michael Willemin, told The Post successful an e-mailed statement.

“Cohen was a apical agent agelong earlier she met Mr. Lorber, and nan curen that she suffered astatine his hands and that of Douglas Elliman person had a profoundly antagonistic effect connected her life and career.”

But Lorber’s lawyer, Maynard, said: “The connection by Ms. Cohen’s lawyer is mendacious and is flatly contradicted by what she told galore group some orally and successful penning complete galore years.”

Lawyers for Tal Alexander told Bloomberg that “anyone who investigates these matters will find what we person — that Tal has done thing wrong.”

Lawyers for Oren and Alon and a typical for Douglas Elliman declined to comment. Jennine and Maynard did not respond to requests for further comment.

As for Gourin, Nicholson has ne'er publically acknowledged that Tessa is his daughter, but his paternity is considered “an unfastened secret” successful Hollywood, according to The Daily Beast.

“My mom wanted maine to person a narration pinch him, but he said he wasn’t interested,” Tessa said past year.

As a child, Tessa said her mother instructed her not to show anyone that she had a celebrated dad.

“I knew he was powerful and Daddy Warbucks-level rich, truthful I benignant of equated my life to being for illustration Orphan Annie’s,” she told The Daily Beast.

Meanwhile, successful 2018, TheRealDeal reported that Lorber had purchased an $11 cardinal Park Avenue flat for his wife, Thea Hallman – pinch whom he had not lived for astatine slightest 10 years.

After board ruled a reappraisal of Lorber’s behaviour by his longtime lawyer Marc Kasowitz was inadequate, nan board’s typical committee took a person look astatine Lorber and decided his behaviour — including 2 affairs — had been inappropriate, a root told Bloomberg.

Maynard told Bloomberg that nan thought that Lorber was ousted aft nan typical sheet deemed his behaviour inappropriate is “false and contrary to what nan institution disclosed.”

Douglas Elliman has been a standalone nationalist institution since its 2021 spin-off from Vector Group. The existent property institution has a marketplace capitalization of $178.6 million. 

When Lorber near nan firm, he forfeited unvested shares that would person been worthy astir $4.3 cardinal erstwhile they were canceled, according to regulatory filings obtained by Bloomberg. He besides forfeited his correct to severance payouts, which would beryllium worthy astir $6.4 million, nan study said.