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Christina Ambers and Angel at their wedding.
Yesterday we heard one-half of the love story of the year, when a famed hand and foot model who married her doorman filed a $10 million lawsuit against an Upper East Side coop board that she claims is trying to force the couple from their apartment. Today, we hear from the former porter himself, Angel Rotger, who went from opening the doors in the 74th Street building to having them opened for him — and claims he has been mistreated by both his former colleagues and his new neighbors in the process.
After losing his job as a doorman when he started dating Christina Ambers, the so-called "Heidi Klum of foot models," the couple married and Rotgers moved from his apartment in the Bronx to his wife's posh, 700-square foot apartment. But since he moved into the building where he used to work, Rotgers claims his former coworkers have become like "captors" who discriminate against the couple, making them feel "trapped" in their apartment, according to the Daily News. "After working amongst them, them having to work under me is a big culture shock," said the 32-year-old, who also tells the Post his neighbors are jealous and refuse to treat him fairly because of his race. "They no longer have to treat me as a Hispanic porter, telling me what to do, where to go. Now they have to treat me as an equal [and] that made them very, very upset."
Residents of the building have complained that Ambers is a "hard-drinking hottie who wears next to nothing while clicking around the building in high heels," according to the Daily News, and the building's lawyer claims the couple's suit is "without merit." But Ambers and Rotger insist that their case — and their relationship — is very serious. "It's not like I stumbled into good fortune or something like that, I found somebody who understands me and wants to be with me, and I love her," he said. "I didn't feel like I fell in love with her feet. I fell in love with her heart."
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"hard-drinking hottie who wears next to nothing while clicking around the building in high heels"
Why can't I have neighbors like that?
The good news: Your wish will be granted.
The bad news: The hottie will be a guy.
This story reeks of who gives a crap.
Maybe no one likes him because he's a douchebag.
It had to happen sooner or later. A doorman is basically hired to put his ego aside and perform as a gentlemanly servant to the tenants. He was paid well to be responsive and to satisfactorily accomodating the needs of the tenants and, of course, the tenants were "nice" to him as a result of his efforts. Now, he has no motive to fulfill their needs (and is offended if he feels they expect him to), and the tenants resent his rise to "equality" and possibly surpassing them on the status scales. Both sides have egos to protect and these argumentative results were easily predictable.
I don't understand why anyone gives a shit - Gothamist, the couple themselves OR the coop residents. If I was the foot model I would tell my snooty neighbors to go fuck themselves, and get on with my life. What good is publicizing any of this going to do?
Do you have a picture of her feet?
A doorman in my building also married an owner. He quit and became a real estate broker. His edge, he knew all the other doormen in the neighborhood and got the jump on the new listings. Over the years he sold more apartments in this building than anyone else. He never alienated the staff here, which is probably what Angel Rotger did.
Confucious say no poo-poo where you tofu!
I've worked with her. She's eccentric, but a very nice person, and good at her job. I also don't get why this is a big story.
Coop Racism? Are the pigeons calling each other names now?