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Old September 20th, 2010 #1
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Default 'Amityville Horror' director duped by ex-wife for 17 years: suit

The director of the the "Amityville Horror" remake says he's been subjected to a real life nightmare courtesy of an ex-wife who duped him into thinking he was a dad - for 17 years.

It wasn't until Andrew Douglas took a paternity test last year that he found out Ameena Meer had been conning him into thinking he was the father of her daughter, court papers say - and now he wants his ex to pay through the nose for the heartbreaking lie.

The suit says Douglas met Meer in London in 1989, when he was working as a professional photographer and she was on a journalism assignment. Over the next three years, they became fornication buddies who "had infrequent sexual relations" when they'd meet up a few times a year.

The relationship got more serious in 1992, when the London resident said Meer called him from her New York home and told him "she was pregnant with his child and asked him to marry her," the suit says.

She told him she didn't want to have the baby out-of-wedlock because "it would cause great shame and disgrace to her parents, both of whom were practicing Muslims."

Douglas agreed, and they tied the knot in London on Aug. 18, 1992, the suit says.

Meer moved to the UK, and moved in with Douglas shortly after giving birth to the girl on Feb. 7, 1993. Douglas said he supported the pair financially, and was "very excited and nervous about becoming a father for the first time."

He spent time "interacting and playing" with the baby girl, but wasn't able to be home much because of work commitments, the suit said. Douglas and Meer's relationship "deteriorated," and by June, she announced she and her daughter were moving back to New York, and that "a price tag was attached" if he wanted to play any part in the girl's life.

Douglas agreed to pay about $1500 a month in child support, and to take care of her schooling and insurance.

Douglas and the girl had "little physical contact during her early years because the parties resided on different continents," which led Douglas to suffer "emotional distress, anxiety and depression" because he suffered "feelings of 'failures' as a father and because he did not feel the natural pull of fatherhood," the suit says.

Those feelings were exacerbated by Meer, who at times would tell him "he was a bad father," the suit says.

Meer remarried and had two more daughters with a man she's since divorced. The suit says Douglas and the girl began to get closer around her tenth birthday, and their relationship got improved after he moved to California.

Douglas said he started to suspect Meer of trickery last summer, after his daughter asked him about his blood type, and he learned the chances were slim that he was her biological father. Meer tried to blow off his concerns, telling Douglas, "If you're not [her[ father, it must be immaculate conception," the suit says.

Douglas's fears were confirmed last September, when he took a paternity test which showed "the probability of paternity is 0%," the suit says.

The filing says the girl's real biological father is "a British man, who unbeknownst to plaintiff at the time, was involved in a sexual relationship" with Meer. The writer had asked the man "to marry her when she was pregnant" but he refused, and "thereafter, knowing that [the girl] was not plaintiff's child, [Meer], knowingly and with malice," told Douglas the baby was his, the suit says.

Meer, who's made headlines of late for helping to champion the controversial Islamic community center near ground zero, hasn't exactly been repentant. She started demanding more money from Douglas - including demanding $27,000 for her back rent and $9000 to redo her kitchen - and has been keeping the daughter away from him, telling her he doesn't want to be her dad, the suit says.

The suit says Douglas still loves the girl, and wants to support her and be her father - but he wants Meer to pay for the hundreds of thousands in child support he's paid over the years, as well as money for his emotional damages.

A friend of Douglas's, who asked not to be named, described him as "a standup guy" who "took Ameena at her word 17 years ago." The friend added that Douglas offered to continue paying, but the ex "decided to double-down on her lie" and has banned Andrew from seeing the child unless he meets Ameena's unreasonable demands.

Asked about the financial dispute, Meer told The Post, "If he wants to be her father, he should provide for her. Isn't that what's fair?" Asked about whether she'd intentionally lied to Douglas about the girl's parentage, she said, "Of course I didn't lie . . . I obviously didn't think that he wasn't her father," Meer said. She called the legal action "a terrible thing for him to do to his daughter."

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