A rich couple who thought they’d discovered their dream nanny to assist with their new child daughter quickly discovered themselves in a dwelling nightmare when the caregiver allegedly refused to go away their lavish upstate New York residence after issues turned bitter.
Barbara Molnar checked all of the bins that Jamie Carano Nordenström and her husband, Philip Nordenström, have been searching for when she answered their advert on Nanny Lane in the summertime of 2024, Jamie instructed the Lower.
The mother of 4 with two grandkids was “undoubtedly, completely in love” with youngsters, Jamie recalled to the outlet — and Molnar was employed part-time for 18 hours per week at $25 an hour.
Her expertise as a mother or father and nanny was a much-needed asset to the brand new dad and mom — she baked teething biscuits and skim German books to their daughter, whom they needed to develop up “a minimum of” bilingual, within the consultants’ restored $1 million Colonial farmhouse in Hillsdale, in accordance with the article.
Whereas the Nordenströms’ Nanny Lane advert mentioned a “visitor home is offered,” the couple hoped to discover a full-time caregiver for his or her little lady. However when Molnar requested if she might transfer in in December, they allowed her to, rent-free, as Jamie needed to keep away from giving her authorized standing as a tenant, the Lower reported.
It didn’t take lengthy for issues to implode, with Molnar quickly defying each rule the Nordenströms had, Jamie instructed the Lower.
Although she was instructed the guesthouse was pet-free, Molnar introduced her yellow Labrador, Hudson, and requested if her youngest son might go to over Christmas whereas on break from boarding faculty — however was nonetheless there come mid-January, Jamie added.
Molnar additionally allegedly refused to scrub up after herself within the shared areas of the property — or if Hudson pooped within the backyard or inside the house, Jamie alleged to the Lower.
Nonetheless, the couple tried to maintain the peace, with Jamie telling the outlet that Philip and Molnar’s son would play chess collectively or they’d pay her to prepare dinner lavish French meals.
Nevertheless, when the Nordenströms returned from Philip’s native Sweden in June, they discovered youngsters hanging out in and round their pool — and no room in both of their fridges for his or her groceries and a vacuum clogged with canine hair, per the outlet.
After shutting the occasion down, Jamie went to sleep, solely to be woke up by Molnar making a racket within the kitchen, she instructed the Lower. She confronted the nanny, who was offended that her boss had embarrassed her son in entrance of his buddies.
“The entire state of affairs was so weird. We didn’t actually know what to do,” Jamie mentioned.
Molnar, nonetheless, instructed the Lower that the Nordenströms have been conscious Hudson was transferring in together with her — and that Jamie inspired her to throw her teen an end-of-the-school-year occasion.
Jamie fired Molnar after the occasion — however begrudgingly provided to assist her discover a new place to dwell and pay her by the tip of the month.
Nevertheless, Molnar instantly cited tenants’ rights, telling Jamie, “You don’t know the regulation. That is my residence, my furnished residence. That is my designated parking area,” the Lower reported.
“We knew, at that time, that she had engaged with us to realize entry to our residence,” mentioned Jamie, who started trying deeper into the previous of her out of the blue modified nanny.
Whereas Molnar had no felony report, she did have the same landlord-tenant dispute in 2021. Data from that case obtained by The Publish present that Molnar wound up owing the couple $27,617 plus curiosity.
A lawyer confirmed that Molnar was a licensee — with permission to dwell rent-free from a house owner with out a rental settlement — beneath state regulation. So their lawyer demanded the nanny depart by way of a 10-day discover — which handed with no signal of Molnar vacating.
There have been run-ins with cops, each side started filming one another, and the couple even known as animal management about Hudson.
In a single textual content trade shared with The Lower, Molnar instructed Jamie: “I’m interviewing for a number of jobs and as soon as that’s secured, I promise you, I can’t get away from you and this place quick sufficient.”
“You are actually night time and day, 180 levels from the sort and beneficiant particular person you have been after we began,” the nanny added.
The Nordenströms ultimately filed a lawsuit in opposition to Molnar, the place they claimed she was “knowledgeable con-artist, with a well-documented historical past of ingratiating herself with well-off people, unlawfully occupying their property in unhealthy religion, after which refusing to go away and abusing the protections afforded by eviction legal guidelines,” in accordance with paperwork obtained by the outlet.
A decide ordered Molnar to vacate the premises on Sept. 10 and moreover slammed her with a brief order of safety from the Nordenströms.
When she lastly left, Jamie discovered that the visitor home was soaked in urine — and positioned so exactly she assumed it couldn’t have all come from the canine, the home-owner instructed the outlet.
She mentioned that the mattress and comforter have been drenched, and the rugs have been bogged right down to such a level that the liquid seeped by the floorboards.
“Possibly it was a bear,” Molnar instructed the Lower whereas claiming she’s the actual sufferer, who’s “going to be fully discredited and slandered.”
The ousted New Jersey-born nanny — now working as a non-public chef in Hillsdale — mentioned she was scouted as a high-end mannequin and labored for French designer Man Laroche earlier than marrying Pasquale Fabio Granato. That they had three children and opened celeb Large Apple hotspot Serafina Fabulous Pizza. After their divorce, he despatched their children to European boarding faculties, the place she would go to them, she instructed The Lower.
She later had her youngest son with a French wine inheritor and is suing him for $5 million in baby help, the outlet reported.
Molnar additionally filed a wrongful termination lawsuit in opposition to Jamie in August, which her former boss known as “baseless and frivolous AI-generated,” whereas calling her mentally unstable in a counter-filing.
Ultimately, a decide positioned restraining orders on each girls.
