A stable owner in the Hamptons regretted having been ‘kicked out’ of the business she owned for 20 years to make way for the horse rescue charity of Alec and Hilaria Baldwin, her neighbors.
Jan Warner, 60, told the New York Post in an interview published on Saturday that he was forced to close Jan’s Barn in 2017 after the owner demanded a year of rent in advance.
Today, the property is rented by the Baldwins, who rescue horses from stables and also rent stalls to their affluent friends for $ 1,500 a month, run by Pat Granfield, a close friend of Hilaria.
Warner regretted having lost his old business and suggested that his wealthy neighbors could have engineered his dismissal, saying: ‘I think Alec and Hilaria didn’t like the fact that I didn’t have this spot immaculate and perfect.’
Jan Warner (front) managed stables near Alec Baldwin’s mansion on Long Island, before a rental dispute led to his outster and a close friend of Hilaria’s, Pat Granfield (back) took over.
Hilaria Baldwin is seen with her husband Alec in 2016. A stable owner in the Hamptons regretted being ‘kicked out’ of her business to make way for the Baldwins
Alec Baldwin poses for a photo in 2018 at the stables he rents in the Hamptons
Warner suggested that his wealthy neighbors could have engineered his expulsion, saying, ‘I think Alec and Hilaria didn’t like the fact that I didn’t have this spot spotless and perfect.’
Warner said he paid rent of $ 2,000 a month for the stables in Amagansett through a handshake agreement with the owner, Job Potter. But in 2017, Potter abruptly asked for a year’s rent in advance, Warner said.
“I couldn’t pay in advance the whole year and he knew it,” Warner told the Post, saying he believed this was “the owner’s way of getting rid of me.”
A Baldwin lawyer told the paper that the couple had nothing to do with Warner’s departure from the property.
The lawyer claimed that Potter had problems with her ability to keep rent on time and that ‘it was widely known throughout the neighborhood that the property was not kept in habitable conditions, but was degraded and in a state of misery, and posed dangerous risks. . ‘
People who boarded their horses in the barn with Warner deny this and say that although the barn was not immaculate or Hamptons chic, it was welcoming and loved by the rich and the poor.
“There is no one I trust more with my horses than Jan Warner,” banker Kelley Foster told the Post. Warner now lives in a trailer park in East Hampton and works for Foster in a private stable.
Jan Warner, 60, said she was forced to close Jan’s Barn in 2017, after the owner demanded a year of rent in advance. The property is seen above
Pat Granfield, who now runs the stables of Alec and Hilaria, is a well-dressed equestrian who owns a home on the Upper East Side
‘The two are very close and both are very bold’, said Warner of Granfield (above) and Hilaria
Granfield, who now runs the stables for Alec and Hilaria, is a well-dressed equestrian who owns a home on the Upper East Side.
Warner already knew Granfield, because Warner had allowed her to keep her horses and give riding lessons there.
“The two are very close and both are very cheeky,” said Warner of Granfield and Hilaria, saying that Granfield was a frequent guest of the Baldwins and boasted of having the “best rosé” with the couple.
Warner and his friends call Granfield ‘Barbie Equine’ and claim that his knowledge of horses is inferior to that of Warner.
Granfield told the Post about his work at Baldwin’s stables: ‘I will say that we are just doing simple, good work for animals and the community.’
The stable controversy in the East End comes after Alec appears to have left Twitter last week amid the ongoing scandal of his wife Hilaria, in which she was accused of falsifying her Spanish heritage and accent.
The stable controversy in the East End comes after Alec appears to have left Twitter last week amid the ongoing Spanish heritage scandal in his wife Hilaria
The 62-year-old SNL actor posted a tweet on January 18 saying, ‘Twitter is like a party where everyone is screaming. It is not a big party. See you later.’
The Oscar nominee’s departure from the social media site is the latest episode of the scandal surrounding his wife and mother of five children, Hilaria, who was accused of falsifying her Spanish heritage when she was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
The 30-Rock star has already defended his 36-year-old wife, saying in a video in December where he called Twitter ‘a lot of shit’.
Baldwin, who previously won an Emmy for his portrayal of President Donald Trump on SNL, added: ‘You have to make your way through the rubble of Twitter. Twitter is just a vast orchard of cr **. ‘
On January 3, Hilaria Baldwin’s sister-in-law, Chynna Phillips, defended her in a YouTube video on Tuesday, saying, ‘It’s a strange and embarrassing moment for her’.
The online frenzy started on December 21st, when a woman tweeted: ‘You have to admire Hilaria Baldwin’s commitment to her decade of kids, where she pretends to be a Spaniard.’
In the days that followed, several videos of Hilaria’s latest TV appearances reappeared showing her commitment to the Spanish accent, including one in 2015, where she apparently forgot the English word for ‘cucumber’.
A video of Alec on The Late Show in 2013 appeared days later, in which he personified his wife’s ‘Spanish’ accent, saying to David Letterman: ‘My wife is from Spain.’
And Hilaria herself indicated in a 2020 interview that she moved from Spain to the United States when she was 19 to study at New York University.
Hilaria’s biography on her agency’s speaker website says she was born on the island of Mallorca and raised in Boston, without specifying a timetable for her education.
Subsequently, your agency removed that reference and simply listed your professional work history later.
While Hilaria has long described her mother as Spanish, records reveal that Hayward is actually a fourth generation resident of Massachusetts.
She was born Hillary Hayward-Thomas, the daughter of Dr. Kathryn Hayward and David Thomas, who worked as teachers in the United States for years before retiring in Mallorca in 2011, according to Page Six.
She attended $ 64,900 a year at The Cambridge School of Weston in Massachusetts.
Several former classmates confirmed that Hilaria was indeed raised in Weston, Massachusetts, by parents of teachers with no hint of a foreign accent.
Friends of her parents from Mallorca, who moved to the Spanish island in 2011, said last month that she speaks to them in English.
In January, it was revealed that in 2009 she made two attempts to complete the W9 tax form, hesitating between two names, before filling in the name she was born with.