It’s a true case of sour grapes.
A Manhattan millionaire says his ex-wife has denied him visitation, so now he wants custody – of their wine collection.
Roger Yaseen says in papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court that he’s worried some of the $500,000 collection will go bad if he’s not reunited with it soon.
The suit also says he’s afraid the 2,000-bottle cache may disappear, because his former wife, Janet, has been “free to consume as many bottles of the jointly owned collection as she wishes.”
Roger, a managing partner of the McNy Fund and director-for-life of the gourmet society La Chaine des Rotisseurs, wants a judge to divvy up the collection.
He has also demanded an “accounting” of how much wine Janet has consumed since she locked him out of the vault back in September 1999 – the same month Roger married Barbara Conroy.
Janet told The Post the suit was “too ridiculous for words.”
“He may not enter this apartment, and he hasn’t asked to visit the wine cellar,” the jewelry designer sniffed.
Roger, 64, and Janet, 58, were married in 1961. They were divorced in 1997.
Roger, they agreed, would have “liberal access” to her Fifth Avenue digs “for the purpose of accessing the collection,” the suit says. The papers say Janet put a cork in that arrangement.
Roger’s lawyer refused to comment.