The estranged husband of a missing Connecticut mom is seeking custody of their five kids — who he claims are being kept under armed guard at their grandmother’s New York City apartment.
In a letter made public Wednesday, a lawyer for Fotis Dulos told a judge that a nanny took Dulos’ children when their mom, Jennifer Dulos, 50, of New Canaan, disappeared on Friday amid a bitter divorce.
The nanny brought the kids — three boys and a girl, ages 8 to 13 — to the apartment of Jennifer’s mom, 85-year-old Gloria Farber, lawyer Michael Rose wrote.
“They have since hired an armed bodyguard and remain in New York,” he said.
Fotis, 51, has joint custody but “is limited” in his rights by court order, Rose said, adding that “the Court needs to take action to provide my client with custody (or someone with the ability to act).”
In his letter, dated Tuesday, Rose also requested in vain that a hearing in the Dulos’ divorce case scheduled for Wednesday not be canceled.
A woman who answered the phone at Farber’s apartment declined to comment and hung up.
Jennifer sued Fotis for divorce in June 2017, alleging that he was having an affair and wanted to move his “paramour” and her 10-year-old daughter into the couple’s 15,000-square-foot home in Farmington.
Her lawyer, Wayne Effron, didn’t immediately return a request for comment, but her family released a statement earlier Wednesday saying that Jennifer would “never, ever” leave her kids.
Fotis hasn’t returned repeated messages.