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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