Rejected underage drinker hires protesters to smear The Mark hotel with wild signs: suit

A rejected underage drinker allegedly launched a bizarre smear campaign against the star-studded Mark hotel in Manhattan — hiring protesters to wave signs accusing the business of supporting pedophiles and “denying the Holocaust,” according to a new lawsuit.

Theodore Weintraub allegedly paid demonstrators to chant with wild signs outside the five-star hotel, on East 77th Street near Fifth Avenue, after he was booted for repeatedly trying to buy drinks with a fake ID, according to a suit filed Thursday in Manhattan Supreme Court.

Protesters’ signs falsely declared, “The Mark Supports [Jeffrey] Epstein,” “The Mark Denies the Holocaust” and “The Mark Spreads Disease,” according to the suit.

Weintraub was also seen sitting in a parked Cadillac and smirking as the “protesters” picketed nearby, workers told  Patch.com, which first reported the story.

“All these different chants all day…It’s the craziest thing we’ve ever had to deal with,” one worker said.“[They say] The Mark has mice, The Mark supports Epstein [and ] pedophiles.”

Trouble first bubbled up when Weintraub repeatedly tried to buy drinks from the hotel’s trendy bar — where a Kaspia Martini with rye Vodka costs $29 — during the summer of 2021, according to the suit, which alleges defamation and seeks a restraining order and damages.

Weintraub allegedly became “increasingly aggressive” about being turned away from the glamorous hotel, which has hosted celebrities such as Drake, Gigi Hadid and Angelina Jolie — and once boasted a $75,000-per-night penthouse suite.

The wannabe boozehound allegedly caused so many “commotions that the hotel flagged him as a disturbance” and banned him, the suit states.

But Weintraub soon returned for a dinner reservation with his “well-known doctor” dad on Sept. 16, 2021, and was stopped by security — prompting him to “beg forgiveness,” then flip out when he was denied entry, according to the lawsuit.

“Defendant began accusing the hotel of being antisemitic and spitting in people’s food,” the suit states.

Nearly two years later, in June 2023, Weintraub allegedly began picketing with an unnamed friend outside the hotel while harassing guests and workers, according to the lawsuit.

He allegedly timed the “protests” to be during hotel’s most “populated time periods” when “VIP guests were expected to be entering or exiting” the building, the suit states.

One protester was caught on camera chanting, “The Mark helped Epstein!” as Drake left the hotel on July 17, according to video footage.

At least one physical confrontation between Weintraub and a hotel guest also led to police being called, the suit states.

Others were baffled after spotting at least six protesters picketing outside the hotel.

“They were saying the most random things,” said Claudia Oshry, co-host of podcast “The Toast” said, adding that her boyfriend witnessed the strange stunt.

”The Mark has mice, The Mark denies the Holocaust, the Mark supports Epstein.’ [He]  was like, ‘How are these three things related?’”

A lawyer for the hotel declined to comment to The Post Wednesday.

Weintraub didn’t immediately return a message left with his brother.