NYC- Michael Strahan’s wife said yesterday she needs more dough from the Giants sackmeister to put the finishing touches on their century-old mansion – $1.5 million worth of finishing touches.
Jean Strahan said the couple has already sunk $5 million into the sprawling Georgian home in Montclair, N.J.
But the Big Blue star wants his estranged wife to pull the plug on the marathon renovation – and sell the $3.6 million house pronto.
“The house should be sold,” declared Robert Penza, Michael Strahan’s lawyer. “[It’s] a white elephant.”
Penza accused the self-confident Jean Strahan of being a “fillibusterer” on the stand because she repeatedly launched into long-winded answers to his terse questions.
After earlier zeroing in on Michael Strahan’s flings, lawyers in the bitter divorce trial yesterday turned their attention to money and real estate.
Jean Strahan has said she plans to raise their twin girls in the huge house, which the couple was meticulously restoring when their marriage imploded.
But even though the couple has spent millions on the place, she still plans to sink more than $60,000 a month into landscaping the front yard, installing new TV and music systems and central air conditioning.
“We have no furniture in the living room,” explained Jean Strahan, who was dressed in head-to-toe black Gucci clothes. “We have an antique merry-go-round [there].”
Jean Strahan effortlessly parried Penza’s questions about her sky-high spending, including $1,500 christening dresses for the twins and $10,000 on their first birthday party.
They also are taking sign language classes.
“I think they are geniuses,” said Jean Strahan.
She also tossed an expensive shindig for a dog named Katie that the family found in Montclair, and instructed her cook to prepare natural foods for the pooch.
Jean Strahan also insisted she knew little about her husband’s finances, even though she often attended meetings with his advisers.
She started to smell a rat because he refused to give her money called for in their prenuptial agreement, which Michael Strahan asserts she verbally nixed.
“There was nothing in my name,” Jean Strahan said. “It wasn’t my money or my house.”