Turns out even celebrity actresses can’t avoid bad landlords and bedbug-infested apartments.

“Saturday Night Live” star Maya Rudolph and her husband, movie director Paul Anderson, have launched a $450,000 lawsuit apartment broker Halstead Property LLC and owner Francis Feeney after being attacked by bedbugs in their new SoHo apartment, which they and their year-old baby moved into last month.

“The plaintiffs were bitten over portions of their bodies by bedbugs,” the court papers say. “Apparently unbeknown to plaintiffs, the premises were infested with bedbugs.”

The papers, filed Wednesday in Manhattan’s state Supreme Court, continue to say that Rudolph and Anderson had been told the apartment was “perfect” and was in a “first-class luxury” building. They were renting the third-floor condominium for $13,500 a month, and had already paid two months rent and a month’s security, plus another month’s rent as broker’s commission.

On top of that, the elevator in the building was out of order for at least six of the family’s first 11 days living there.

The family were advised to leave the apartment by an exterminator on Oct. 17.

The lawsuit seeks $450,500 in compensatory and punitive damages, repayment of rent and broker’s fees and legal fees.






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