Holocaust survivor gets $2.5M judgment after suing son for fraud: court docs

A Holocaust and cancer survivor got a $2.5 million judgment against her son after he drained $2 million in cash and stocks from her, according to court papers.

Retired Manhattan prosthodontist Irena Mausner built a portfolio of cash, stocks, investments and nearly $5 million in real estate with her Chanel executive husband Jack Mausner, who died in 2014.

The 88-year-old trusted their son, Ian O. Mausner, 64, to manage her wealth but instead, he engaged in “an array of theft, fraud and deceit,” according to her 2023 Manhattan Federal Court lawsuit.

The scheming son even tried to steal two multi-million-dollar California properties from under her mom’s nose, the suit charged.

“The evidence is overwhelming that [Ian Mausner] blatantly stole or tried to steal many of [his mother’s] assets,” US District Court Judge Jesse Furman noted in the court order.

Mausner, of San Diego, was a registered investment adviser until he was charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission with taking advantage of his clients, Furman noted in the judgment.

Mausner was barred in May 2019 from serving as an investment adviser in a settlement with the SEC, yet continued to serve as his mom’s financial adviser, the court said.

The Manhattan suit charged he forged her name on the deeds of a $2.2 million San Diego apartment and a $2.4 million Carlsbad mansion they jointly owned, and gave himself sole control to try to secretly sell them.

From 2018 to 2022, Ian Mausner allegedly shifted $1.7 million of his mom’s dough into a Robinhood investment account in his own name, while giving Irena “phony” documents showing the funds were in her control, the mother claimed in the legal filing.

Once confronted with the charges, the son allegedly lashed out at his mom, telling her she was the one who was “truly reprehensible and unforgivable.”

“It is a shame that this [the Mausner case] ever came to be . . . But the Court has no choice now but to wade into this ugly family dispute,” Furman said in his opinion.

“We are deeply appreciative of this judgment and the Court’s finding that there was overwhelming evidence of Ian Mausner’s reprehensible conduct,”  said Irena Mausner’s attorney, Seth L. Levine.

Ian Mausner insisted to The Post he did no wrong, saying his mom  “always gave me everything I wanted so the notion of taking from her is absolutely ludicrous.”