Wall Street tycoon sues for return of gifts
NEW YORK (AP) -- A multimillionaire stock trader sued his
ex-girlfriend, model Ines Misan, to reclaim $500,000 worth of jewelry
he gave her.
John Lattanzio claims the two were engaged before they ended an
on-again, off-again two-year relationship last month. He wants Ms.
Misan to give back the gifts. Ms. Misan, who once starred in a movie
called ''Inside the Gold Mine,'' said she was never Lattanzio's fiancee
and has no intention of returning his more than $3 million in gifts.
''This is an insult for him to ask me for the jewelry back,'' Ms. Misan,
who once worked for the Ford modeling agency, said in today's New
York Post. ''It's like giving a child a candy and ripping it out of his
mouth once he's sucking it. I get attached to gifts, especially diamonds.
I'm a beautiful woman.''
In court papers, Lattanzio, 49, demanded the 20-something Ms. Misan
return a nine-carat diamond ring valued at about $290,000, a Cartier
diamond necklace worth $147,220 and a Hermes crocodile leather
purse worth $27,000.
Lattanzio was a head trader at Steinhardt Partners until 1995. Last
year, he set up his own Lattanzio Group.
The question of whether the two were engaged is important because it
is easier under state law to reclaim gifts ''given in contemplation'' of a
marriage that doesn't happen.
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