Two warring Upper East Side millionaires are refusing to budge an inch — over a mere foot of real estate.
They're embroiled in a bizarre court battle royale over the tiny bit of space between their adjoining town homes on East 92nd Street, with the old-moneyed husband of a late bottling heiress suing his new-money neighbor for rights to the space.
"It's a lawsuit over a few inches! It's ridiculous!'' the defendants' lawyer, Adam Leitman Bailey, told The Post on Friday after the suit was filed.
The trouble started shortly after the defendants, Soros Fund Management partner Ravi Yadav and his wife, Suzanne, plunked down $8.1 million in 2012 for a town house at 63 E. 92nd St.
The couple started a massive renovation on their 3,535-square-foot pad — including the replacement of a black iron fence that was partly on their property yet installed decades ago to surround their neighbor's wide stoop.
The fence, owned by next-door resident Philippe Delouvrier, encroached a foot onto their property to surround his 13.5-foot-wide stoop, according to court papers and the Yadavs' lawyer.
Bailey says the couple planned to simply follow the old fence's configuration and allow Delouvrier to keep their 12 inches of space — until he balked at their choice of new fencing material.
When negotiations broke down, Delouvrier sued — claiming he actually owns the land because he's been using it continuously for more than 20 years.
"We've tried to be very neighborly," said an exasperated Suzanne Yadav, 47. But "he's claiming adverse possession, squatters' rights."
Bailey went so far as to call Delouvrier — the son of French economist Paul Delouvrier and owner of the $11 million town house at 61 E. 92nd St. — "a bully."
Susan Yadav shows the property line between 61 E. 92nd St and 63.Photo: Anne Wermiel/NY Post
Delouvrier's lawyer declined to comment, and the plaintiff did not return a message.
Delouvrier, 65, was married to Judith Connelly Delouvrier, who died in a plane crash in 1996. Her late father, John Connelly, owned Crown Cork and Seal Company.
The plaintiff, whose wife purchased the 4,200-square-foot home in 1995, brought an emergency suit against the Yadavs asking that the renovation work be stopped immediately on the town houses, which are nestled in the Carnegie Hill Historic District.
Delouvrier's architect, Andrew Pollock, asserts in court papers that "any tampering with the enclosed stoop . . . would destroy the character of the front entrance."
Delouvrier is asking a judge to anoint him rightful owner of the sliver.
Additional reporting by Erin Calabrese
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