Charles Zolot, 65, Found Dead In Queens Law Office
A Queens divorce attorney was found stabbed to death inside
his office Thursday morning, and cops are investigating the death as a
homicide, according to police and sources.
Charles Zolot, 65, was discovered lying face up — with
multiple stab wounds — in a second-floor office at 37-06 82nd Avenue in Jackson
Heights by a custodian around 5:50 a.m., cops and sources said.
Another tenant in the building, who asked to remain
anonymous out of fear for his safety, said Zolot had been threatened recently
by two clients.
“Some clients of his threatened him and then they came back
and did the deed last night,” the tenant said, adding that security cameras at
the building caught the duo there Wednesday night.
The slain lawyer’s face was also bloodied in the attack,
sources said.
“He’s a bright guy, a hard-working guy,” one neighbor at
Zolot’s home in Jamaica said Thursday. “But he was quiet, always to himself. He
lived alone in a studio here at least 20 years that I know him.”
The neighbor said Zolot, who belongs to a synagogue, has a
sister but no children, wife or girlfriend that he knows of.
“He was always wearing a suit, carrying a briefcase,” he
said. “He never spoke to anyone, not more than ‘Hi.’ Always on his cell, even
in the elevator.
“We are all in shock,” he added. “It’s terrible.”
Zolot was known for doing real estate litigation and divorce
work, the tenant said.
Zolot, who was admitted to practice law in New York in 1982,
handled “all areas of family law” including child custody and child support,
bankruptcy, pre and postnuptial agreements and visitation rights, according to
his website.
Online records show he was scheduled to appear in Queens
Supreme Court Thursday on a case.
Police sources said the death was being investigated as a
homicide. The city’s medical examiner will determine the cause of death.
There are several other law and financial offices in the
building.
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