A Murray Hill actress who claimed her killer view of the East River exposed her to a “potentially lethal UV bath” has lost her legal battle with the building’s owners and developers.
A Manhattan judge dismissed a $1 million lawsuit from Jennifer Betit Yen, a skin cancer survivor who sued after developing lesions on her face from the floor-ceiling-windows in her luxe, $6.2 million First Avenue pad, asserting Yen had not proven her claims of negligence.
Reps for developer Soloviev Building Co. and the building’s board of managers repeatedly told Yen, 48, and her film producer husband J. Peyton Worley, 47, the unit “had 100% UV protection,” the couple alleged in their Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit.
The actress, a skin cancer survivor, accused the building’s developers of falsely claiming the floor-to-ceiling windows featured UV protection. Jennifer Betit Yen/Facebook
But the couple signed a purchase agreement in which they