«Breaking News» Rod Covlin financier wife wanted to cut him out of will FIVE DAYS before he allegedly strangled her

UBS executive Shele Danishefsky (pictured) was in the midst of divorcing her much younger husband Covlin when she was killed on New Year's Eve in 2009

Financier Shele Danishefsky approached an attorney at her New York Upper West Side synagogue to cut her backgammon pro husband Rod Covlin out of her will just five days before Covlin allegedly strangled her, a jury heard Tuesday.

Her estate was valued at $5.4 million, prosecutors told Manhattan Supreme Court. 

Attorney Jonathan Herlands, who specializes in trusts and estates, told Covlin's murder trial at Manhattan Supreme Court Shele was with her children at the Lincoln Square Synagogue when she came up to him and asked for a consultation.

Herlands said that on Dec. 26, 2009 Shele told him, ‘I need to change my will. I want to make sure Rod doesn’t get any part of my estate’.

They were on a landing outside a social event following Sabbath services and Herlands asked her for an email address because he didn’t want to do business on the Sabbath or discuss that type of matter with other people around, he said.

Rod Covlin, accused of murdering his wife 10 years ago, is seen in Manhattan Supreme Court on Tuesday

Trust and estate lawyer Jonathan Herlands testified on Tuesday at Manhattan Supreme Court that Shele Danishefky wanted to cut estranged husband Rod Covlin out of her will

Shele gave him her address at Gmail. Two days later he emailed her to test the address, explaining he was barred from carrying a pen on the Sabbath, and asked her to acknowledge receipt, a prosecution exhibit of their email exchange showed.

She replied on her UBS account the next day – two days before her death – that she had received it and wanted to know what his rates before they had a meeting ‘in the interest of making sure no one’s time is wasted’. Herlands replied he got $465 an hour, going up to $485 an hour beginning Jan 1, 2010.

At the time of her death, Rod was 36 and Shele, a UBS executive from a wealthy background, was 47. She was the sole breadwinner and he was pursuing his backgammon passion 

Herlands then said he would need to review her current trusts and will ‘because it is not as “cut and dried” as you described your needs when we spoke briefly at shul’.

Herlands said he did not hear back from Shele, who was found dead in her bathtub two days later.

Earlier Tuesday afternoon, Hannah Pennington, an assistant commissioner at the Mayor's Office to End Domestic and Gender Based Violence, testified that while was Shele’s neighbor in their West 68th Street apartment building, Shele had confided in her she was concerned that Covlin was ‘using different ways to get information about her’.

‘She [Shele] pointed to the molding in the hallway and said she had a fear of him putting in surveillance equipment’ to monitor her, Pennington testified,

On Tuesday morning, the woman who claimed Rod Covlin raped her told the jury she realized she had been assaulted after backgammon pro Covlin whipped out a 'big bag of drugs' that had put her in a 'drug-induced coma'.

Shele's neighbor Hannah Pennington told the trial on Tuesday Shele was concerned Covlin was using surveillance equipment on her

Patricia Swensen, testifying for the second day, said the revelation came during an August 2009 trip to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, during which she was filmed driving by Covlin.

Swensen said she could not remember what happened at the end of her first two dates with Covlin, then 35, but put 'two and two together' when Covlin offered her medication on the third.

'I told him I was feeling nervous because he was putting the camera on me,' Swensen told the jury. 'He said, 'I have anxiety pills.' He took out this black bag with a bunch of different pills in there.'

She told defense attorney Robert Gottlieb that was when she understood she had been raped.

Patricia Swensen (pictured at the stand) told a Manhattan jury Tuesday how, while dating Rod Covlin, he took out a 'big bag of drugs'

Patricia Swensen (pictured at the stand) told Manhattan Supreme Court on Tuesday she had no idea what drugs Rod Covlin gave her that caused, using air quotes, 'a drug-induced coma'

'I didn't know until Gettysburg when he pulled out a black bag with a whole bunch of different drugs in it,' she said. 'I blacked out when I was with your client – a drug-induced coma,' using air quotes for emphasis.

Later, she said she had 'no idea' which drugs were in the pouch, but saw 'blue ones, yellow ones, tiny circle ones' loose in the pouch.

Swensen had testified Covlin started to come unglued in Gettysburg when discussing his wife and contentious divorce and that he wanted to kill her Swensen invented an excuse to leave.

Patricia Swensen urged Rod Covlin (pictured in court Tuesday) to seek help for his anger

On the way home from Pennsylvania, she told him that he should talk to God, she testified Tuesday.

'When you're feeling angry, talk to God … something right now is really wrong with you,' she told Covlin according to her testimony.

She said she dropped him off in Westchester and she balked at first when he tried to kiss her, telling him, 'I'm not ready for a relationship.'

But, she said, she relented and kissed him once.

Patricia Swensen (seen above) told Manhattan Supreme Court on Tuesday Covlin gave her drugs when she became anxious after he video recorded her driving him to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in August 2009. She believes Covlin raped her while she was drugged.

'I didn't want to get him angry,' she said. 'To me, he was mentally unstable at this point.'

Retired police detective Shirley Figueroa testified that she interviewed Covlin after he made allegations that Shele had sexually abused their son Myles, then 2 years old.

He spent much of the interview complaining about his wife and decaying marriage before saying that Myles told him Shele had touched his genitals and bottom and that it had hurt.

Retired NYPD detective Shirley Figueroa testified on Tuesday at Manhattan Supreme Court there was no proof to Covlin's claims Shele had sexually abused son Myles, then 2 years old

There was no finding of abuse by the police and, according to a stipulation read into the record by Assistant District Attorney Matthew Bogdanos, the Administration for Children's Services marked the allegation 'unfounded.'

Figueroa also testified Covlin disclosed to her that he took Ambien and had a prescription for Vicodin.

Shele, a UBS executive, was found dead in her bathtub on December 31, 2009, the apparent victim of a fall in the tub where she drowned. She was 47

Shele Danishefsky, 47, was found dead in the bathtub of her Upper West Side apartment on New Year's Eve in 2009. Prosecutors allege estranged husband Rod Covlin murdered her

She was buried without an autopsy after her Orthodox Jewish family waived the post mortem examination at the advice of a rabbi.

When Shele's body was exhumed months later, an autopsy revealed the hyoid bone in her neck was fractured, a hallmark of strangulation. 

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UBS executive Shele Danishefsky (pictured) was in the midst of divorcing her much younger husband Covlin when she was killed on New Year’s Eve in 2009

Financier Shele Danishefsky approached an attorney at her New York Upper West Side synagogue to cut her backgammon pro husband Rod...

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