Connery’s neighbour files lawsuit over ‘havoc’

SEAN CONNERY has been hit with a multimillion euro lawsuit by neighbours who claim he is making their lives a living hell.

The Scot, 74, has enraged his exclusive New York neighbours who have accused him of allowing workers to create a deafening noise, fumes, dripping water and an infestation of rats, as well as loud music played at all hours.

In a €22.6m ($30m) lawsuit, Dr Burton Sultan claims construction work has "wreaked havoc on (his) collection of museum-quality Victorian and early 20th-century wicker furniture ... irreparably damaged by water, falling plaster and black soot and grime".

Mr Connery has lived in the Manhattan apartment, owned by his son Stephane, since April 2001, according to the New York Daily News. The paper said the lawsuit describes an incident when Dr Sultan's daughter knocked on the actor's door to ask him to turn the music down.

"Connery himself answered the door in his bathrobe, unkempt and dishevelled, scarcely, or in any event, no longer 'the sexiest man alive' portrayed in the tabloids and bearing no resemblance to the super-spy who announced himself as 'Bond James Bond'. `

Mr Connery's appearance and behaviour was that of a rude, foul-mouthed, fat old man," it claims.

Mr Connery's spokes-woman was unavailable.