By Gabriela Resto-Montero
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
An Upper East Side model is suing her co-op board for $10 million for what she claims is class discrimination after she married one of the building's doormen earlier this year.
Christina Ambers, 36, bought her condo at 340 E. 74th street in 2003 and began dating Angel Rotger, 32, a porter and doorman at the building in 2008, according to the Daily News.
In her career as a hand and foot model, Ambers, dubbed the "Heidi Klum" of her field by New York Magazine, has worked with Maybelline and Harry Winston, Anne Klein and Oil of Olay, among other companies, the News reported.
Since the couple married, Ambers alleges building staff have refused service to them and the co-op board has fixated on evicting them from their home.
In a violent August incident, the wife of the building's superintendent hit Rotger in the groin with a handbag, according to Ambers.
Rotger lost his job at the building, also called the Avon House, over his relationship with Ambers.
"You live in this ritzy Upper East Side apartment and now Angel the porter is Angel your next-door neighbor -- I guess it makes some people feel uncomfortable," Joshua Price, the couple's lawyer, told the New York Post.
