The luxury Connecticut home of Jennifer Farber Dulos and Fotis Dulos goes on the market for $1.75 million; furniture, rugs and kitchen items to be auctioned online

The luxury home on a quiet cul-de-sac in Farmington where Fotis Dulos and Jennifer Farber Dulos raised their family before a bitter divorce, her mysterious disappearance and his suicide is going on the market for $1.75 million.

The 10,396-square foot-house with six bedrooms on Jefferson Crossing that Dulos built for his family is being sold as part of a systematic sale of Dulos’ estate. In addition to the house, everything from boxes of Legos to high-end rugs and motorcycles will be sold as creditors and attorneys line up to get a share of the estate before it is turned over to the couple’s five children.

In his search for assets, Attorney Christopher Hug , who was appointed administrator of the Dulos estate by Farmington Probate Judge Evelyn Daly, has uncovered everything from a secret safety deposit box containing gold doubloons and a Tiffany ring to $3,000 worth of exercise equipment.

Hug gave an update on the status of the disposal of Dulos’ belongings at a probate hearing Thursday — where the judge also deferred a motion to have Jennifer Dulos declared legally dead. Hug said that the coronavirus has slowed the sale of some of the properties, but that things were starting to move.

“We certainly hope to sell the house quickly and bring closure to the estate,” attorney Richard Weinstein said. Weinstein represents Jennifer’s mother, Gloria Farber.

The home, which sits high on a ridge along Avon Mountain, has been a central part of a story that has captured national attention since Jennifer Farber Dulos disappeared from her New Canaan home on Memorial Day weekend in 2019.

The couple moved into the house in 2012 after living in other homes Dulos had built or renovated in Avon and Canton. With seven bathrooms, four garage bays and top of the line kitchen appliances, the house was the stuff of center spreads in glossy architectural magazines. For Dulos, it was the showcase home for his company, the Fore Group, that he started with financial help from his father-in-law, Hilliard Farber.

But within five years, the marriage began to crumble. In early 2017, records show, Farber Dulos learned her husband was having an affair with a woman named Michelle Troconis. In June 2017, Jennifer gathered the couple’s five children, fled Farmington and moved to a house in New Canaan. She filed for divorce a day later. The couple’s contentious divorce was still pending at the time she disappeared.

After a lengthy and high-profile investigation, state police charged Dulos, who was 51, with killing Jennifer, who was 50, saying in warrants that he traveled to her New Canaan home and waited for her to return from dropping their children at school. Her body has yet to be found.

Dulos was charged with her murder in January 2020, but not long after posting bail he was facing a likely return to prison after problems surfaced with his bond. On the day he was due in court, Dulos tried to kill himself in the garage at 4 Jefferson Crossing by attaching a vacuum hose to the tailpipe of his Chevrolet Suburban. He died a few days later in a New York hospital.

Screening buyers

The listing, being handled by Marshall + Ostop Associates of William Ravies realty, describes the home as having “a stunning and flexible floor plan that combines utility with elegance.”

“A gourmet Christopher Peacock kitchen is appointed with Viking appliances, marble countertops, and a butler’s pantry,” it continues. “There are six bedrooms in the main home each with an en-suite bath. All bathrooms are appointed with marble. Endless closets and storage.”

Given the high interest in the case, steps are being taken to keep the simply curious away.

Any potential buyers must be pre-approved for a mortgage and agree to allow realtors to check with the Farmington police to make sure no complaints have been filed against them by Dulos. There were several incidents with people showing up at the house. There will be no open houses in a further bid to keep away gawkers.

Another house that featured in the state police narrative of how Dulos killed his estranged wife — down the road from Jefferson Crossing at 80 Mountain Spring Road — is being readied for sale by the bank that has foreclosed on it. State police allege Dulos returned to Jefferson Crossing on the afternoon of May 24, 2019, the day Jennifer Farber Dulos disappeared.

Records also show that two vacant lots, at 84 and 88 Mountain Spring Road, have already been sold for $358,000 to Hinman Builders and Developer, whose owner Dana Hinman was one of Dulos’ water skiing friends. A third house in New Canaan at 61 Sturbridge Hill Road that also is under foreclosure will be ready for sale soon. Hug said there already has been some interest in it.

“It’s an interesting market right now, and the New Canaan house may have some equity,” Hug said.

Dulos had a $2.79 million mortgage on the New Canaan home, records show. Zillow estimates the house could sell for as much as $4 million.

Online auction planned

In addition to the real estate, personal items from the home are being sold. Hug said that the Nadeau Auction Gallery in Windsor has been hired to conduct an online auction of some of Dulos’ furniture. Hug said there at least nine items that will be auctioned off.

Edward Nadeau said Friday that some of Dulos’ belongings will be sold during an online auction on Nov. 21. Nadeau said the items include a bed and bedroom furniture, a large outdoor dining table and chairs, at least one luxury rug and “other high end household items.”

“There’s also lots of snow skis and water skis and a 75-inch TV,” Nadeau said.

The value of the items to auction off has been appraised at about $40,000, records show. But Nadeau acknowledged there’s no way of knowing how the case’s notoriety will impact the sale. Nadeau said since Dulos was such “an infamous person” that could generate interest in his belongings.

Hug told the judge that this week he has already sold two motorcycles and a vehicle that Dulos owned. Hug didn’t elaborate, but probate records show he sold a 2003 BMW M3 that Dulos had shipped here from Greece for $9,000 and a motorcycle and Yamaha dirt bike for $4,000.

Dulos used to ride the dirt bike through the wooded trails behind the Jefferson Crossing house that lead down to West Hartford Reservoir. State police partially searched those trails looking for a possible burial site for Jennifer Farber Dulos. State police also spent several days searching for Farber Dulos in the woods and the septic system behind the Mountain Spring Road properties.

Gold doubloons, a Tiffany ring

Although Farber Dulos’ body was never found, police moved forward and charged Dulos with killing her. In the arrest warrant, state police said they believed Dulos was “lying in wait” for his estranged wife to return from bringing the couple’s five children to school on the morning of May 24, 2019.

The warrant said there is evidence Farber Dulos was violently attacked in the garage of her Welles Place home and that someone tried to clean it up.

Police uncovered surveillance videos that showed a red Toyota Tacoma truck leaving 80 Mountain Spring Road in Farmington early that morning, driving on the Merritt Parkway to New Canaan, parking near Waveny Park — where they later found Faber Dulos’ SUV — and then returning to Mountain Spring Road.

The police later used Dulos’ cellphone to determine that same night, around the same time police were discovering blood in the New Canaan garage, he was disposing of trash bags along Albany Avenue in Hartford with his then-girlfriend Michelle Troconis seated in the passenger’s seat, records show.

Police later recovered some of the bags and found a Vineyard Vines shirt that they believe Farber Dulos was wearing the day she disappeared, along with her underwear and other items that had blood on them. Police have said DNA testing showed Dulos blood on some of the bags — along with that of his estranged wife.

After his arrest in early January for murder, Dulos was free on a $6 million bond and still living at Jefferson Crossing. By then Troconis, who has pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to commit murder charges, had moved out and his new girlfriend, Anna Curry, had moved in.

On the morning he tried to kill himself, Dulos sent Curry to a nearby branch of People’s Bank to empty his account. Records show it had only $92.70 in it. Police later discovered Dulos in the garage with the car running and tried to revive him. He was flown to a hospital in New York where he died a few days later.

In July, Hug discoverd that Dulos had a second safety deposit box at the same branch. Hug obtained a court order to open it and found more than $35,000 worth of gold doubloons, watches, and other jewelry inside.

Hug said that there were also three watches, which the three Dulos boys said were presents for them. There also was a pile of gold coins that were apparently birthday presents for all five children. Those items have been turned over to the children.

“I’m very happy that you found those items for the children,” Daly said during the hearing.

There was also a Tiffany ring inside, which has gone unclaimed. It’s likely, Hug said, the ring was Jennifer’s.

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