Comedian David Brenner said Friday that his 9-year-old son was spirited away by the boy's mother just hours after a judge awarded custody to Brenner.
"She absconded with Cole and we have no idea where she is," Brenner said by phone from Los Angeles. Kenneth Goldstein, lawyer for the mother, Charisse Brody, said he last saw her as she left his offices Thursday night. He had just informed her that New York Supreme Court Justice David Saxe had ordered her son, Cole, away from her.David Ettinger, Brenner's attorney, said he plans to ask Saxe on Monday to find Brody in contempt for disobeying the court order to relinquish the child.
Brenner has been fighting Brody, his former girlfriend, for custody of their son for the past five years. Saxe awarded Brenner custody after Brody refused to take a court-ordered drug test.