By Jennifer Glickel
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
UPPER EAST SIDE — An Upper East Side woman is taking her coworker to court over a puppy named after Leonardo DiCaprio, according to the New York Post.
Makeup artist Enid O'Sullivan filed a lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court claiming that John and Bartola Inguaggiato, of Long Island, are keeping the Maltese puppy that O'Sullivan says is hers.
O'Sullivan, who works at Fifth Avenue salon Louis Licari with colorist Bartola, said she got two male puppies from the same litter in August and gave them to the Inguaggiatos so their "daughter Nina could 'watch' them [until she returned to school] in September,” the paper wrote.
O'Sullivan says that the puppies were simply on loan.
"I never gave them to her," O'Sullivan told the paper.
"All I asked for is that they give them back because they already had one [another dog]."
But John Inguaggiato says that O’Sullivan straightforwardly gave the dogs to his family and believes the makeup artist only wants them returned so she can sell them for a profit, the Post reported.
O'Sullivan denies that claim, saying that she only wants little Leo back out of love, not profit.
The Inguaggiatos gave one puppy back to O’Sullivan as an act of good faith and compromise, but kept Leo, because the dog had become part of the family, the paper wrote.
"We felt bad we had to give up his little brother," John Inguaggiato told the Post, "but we did it to be fair and keep the peace."
