Exclusive | NYC building owner tries to escape $35M verdict by secretly taping victim over 9 months: Utter desperation

A New York City building owner is trying to get out of paying an eye-watering $35 million verdict to an ex-JPMorgan banker who claimed a shattering glass door left her with permanent brain damage, according to new court documents.Lawyers for the Madison Avenue building claim hours of new video surveillance of former banking analyst Meghan Brown taken over a nine-month period reveal her claims of incapacitation are a “fraud.”“Seldom is a farce of the magnitude orchestrated by [Brown] here captured on video and in court documents,” wrote Christopher Theobalt, attorney for 271 Madison Co — who argue the $35.2 million verdict should now be thrown out. But Brown’s lawyer Tom Moore called the move “utter desperation.”“Hope springs eternal,” Moore, who originally argued for an $80 million payout, told The Post.“But for the defendants, those hopes are going to be dashed rather soon.”In March 2024, a jury found the owners of 271 Madison Ave.

liable for the shocking 2015 incident, where a 7½-foot-tall lobby door seemingly exploded as Brown, then 27, was walking through it.Brown, who now runs a gelato business in Naples, Florida, told jurors the injuries ultimately led to her being fired from her position as a high-level analyst and negatively affected her ability to carry out everyday tasks.“Well, one of the biggest problems I have with my brain is that I can’t trust it,” she testified during the three-week trial in Manhattan Supreme Court.Jurors unanimously ruled in her favor, finding that building owner 271 Madison Co.’s negligence was “a substantial factor in causing” her injuries, The Post previously reported.But the buildings’ owners appealed the verdict, hiring private eyes to track Brown in the Sunshine State, capturing her “depicting a level of function irreconcilable with what [she] described at trial,” according to court docs.Footage showed Brown dodging traffic, working 10-hour shifts at the gelato shop, texting while ...