The wealthy widow of a Greek shipping heir won’t be pried from the Pierre Hotel.
Tara Kulukundis, who once locked herself inside her husband Michael’s $25 million Southampton manse to keep it from being sold, says she never consented to the sale of her pad at the famed luxury landmark.
The executors of her husband’s $62 million estate, Albert Sigal and Barbara de Mare, have accused Kulukundis of skipping town for months in a bid to scuttle the sale after they inked a 2016 deal to sell the Fifth Avenue abode.
They asked a judge in December to give her the boot so they could unload the property and collect the $9.8 million purchase price before the buyer walks, but Kulukundis calls it a contrived “emergency.”
Before they can force the widow to walk, the executors and the purchaser have to show they’ve obtained “all required approvals,” which they haven’t done, Kulukundis’ lawyers claim in Manhattan Surrogate’s Court papers filed last month.
The widow also slams allegations she’s been draining dry her husband’s estate, calling them “simply false.”
“The executors are far from proving any such thing,” her lawyers claimed in court papers.
At $12,815 a month, the Pierre Hotel apartment is “a small fraction of the estate’s expenses” of $130,000 a month, her papers claim.
Kulukundis is asking for an official accounting of the estate’s assets.
“How is this estate generating legitimate expenses of $1.5 million per year?” the widow asks of the executors in legal filings regarding the eight-year-old estate.



