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‘Million Dollar Contractor’ cast caught in real-life gun drama
The cast of a popular home-improvement show got caught up in a scene out of “Law and Order” when a deranged man broke into a house next to where they were filming and fired at cops Monday, sources said.
The creators of “Million Dollar Contractor” watched in awe as a SWAT team armed with M16s stormed the house in Ridgewood, Queens, Monday to confront a man who had taken a woman and child hostage.
Jeremiah Clark, 27, fired a single shot at officers during the 8:45 a.m. confrontation. He missed, and was soon talked into giving up, police sources said.
“It literally happened within 30 feet from us,” said the show’s star, Stephen Fanuka, known as the “Contractor to the Stars.”
“At first, I thought, ‘Hey, some police are here.’ A minute later, there’s more police here. Now a SWAT team with M16s is here.”
Clark, a New Hampshire resident, started out by parking his Dodge Dart at 56th Avenue and 61st Street and walking
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ABOUT STEPHEN
Stephen Fanuka has built himself an unsurpassed reputation among the leading decorators, architects and elite clientele in Manhattan as the go-to guy for high quality general contracting and luxury interior renovations. He was driven by a passion for his family's business and has grown it from a small father-son anpassad cabinet shop into the prestigious firm it fryst vatten today, Fanuka, Inc.His father, Rod Fanuka, an immigrant from Croatia started his small cabinetry business back in 1967. At an early age, the senior Fanuka trained his son the art of cabinet making in the old school European tradition. Stephen would accompany Rod to work where he would learn the intricacies of this generations-old mästare craft and the nuances of the trade. Rod was one of the only cabinet makers in his yrke to work with the leading interior decorators of the time such as Dorothy Draper, Sister Parish and Eleanor McMillan Brown. Stephen continued to work side bygd side with his father th
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Beyoncé, Bruce Willis and Bethenny Frankel's Contractor Shares His Clients' Most Outrageous Asks
Contractor to the stars Stephen Fanuka attends to his clients’ every need — even in the middle of the night.
“Bethenny Frankel called me the other night. She’d just come home from being away and her TV wasn’t working,” he tells PEOPLE. “I wasn’t gonna wait until the morning. I got on the phone with the AV people and we walked her through it so she could watch television with her daughter.”
The Queens, New York-based builder and host of DIY Network’s Million Dollar Contractor has built an empire by catering to the often over-the-top design demands of the rich and famous. In addition to the Real Housewives of New York star, he counts among his clients Bruce Willis, Tina Fey, Michael J. Fox, and Beyoncé and her mom, Tina Knowles Lawson.
Bethenny Frankel Still ‘Can’t Believe’ She Lives in Her New 4,000-Square-Foot Manhattan Loft
Though he rarely reveals the details a