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Party murder suspect’s ‘dad’ trying to sell UES pad

Jeweler-to-the-stars Jeffrey Rackover is trying to sell his Upper East Side apartment to escape neighbors furious that his surrogate son and a pal allegedly murdered a man inside the building, The Post has learned.

Rackover has been ostracized by fellow residents of the East 59th Street co-op tower since last year’s grisly slaying — and an April visit by NYPD detectives only hardened their hatred, sources said.

“He should sell. He has enough going on,” one neighbor said.

Rackover — who famously helped now-President Trump pick out the engagement ring he gave wife Melania — is offering his 32nd floor, two-bedroom, three-bath apartment for just shy of $2.5 million.

The decor is “very Liberace-esque,” said a source who saw it during a recent open-house viewing inside the Grand Sutton building.

“You walk in and there are these two tall mirrors,” framed in dark wood and Louis Vuitton fabric, the source said.

“He has a Louis Vuitton throw on the bed. He’s got a crystal chandelier over the dining room table. In the living room, there are built-in couches with fur pillows.”

There are framed photos of celebs including Elton John, Matt Lauer and Lorraine Bracco on the walls, and “a framed thank-you note from Oprah Winfrey in the guest bathroom, along with hand towels that say ‘The Rackovers’ on them,” the source added.

The selling price represents a 10 percent discount from what Rackover was asking when he listed the place shortly before Joey Comunale, 26, was killed in a fourth-floor apartment occupied by James Rackover, 25, on Nov. 13.

Jeffrey Rackover — who authorities have said was paying the rent for James — took his apartment off the market the following month, according to online listings.

James Rackover and Larry Dillione, 28, were charged with second-degree murder after Dillione allegedly confessed that he knocked out Comunale and that James strangled and stabbed him after they began arguing after cigarettes while partying together.

The body of Comunale, a Hofstra grad and Delta Sigma Pi fraternity brother, was found three days later, buried in a shallow grave in Oceanport, NJ.

The younger Rackover — an ex-con from Florida — changed his last name from Beaudoin after meeting Jeffrey Rackover at a health club about four years ago, sources have said.

Jeffrey, 56, wanted to serve as the younger man’s mentor, and also helped him land a job at the at the Willis Tower Watson insurance company, sources have said.

“He picked the wrong guy….He should get a fresh start,” a neighbor said. “I called the doorman to complain and then the doorman called him. The doorman called back to say that [Rackover] thinks his dog can bark as much as he wants during the day, and if I don’t like it I should buy his apartment,” she said.

Another neighbor said she would be glad to see Rackover go, due to the incessant barking of a dog inside his apartment that apparently belonged to James.

A doorman said Rackover wasn’t home on Monday, and he didn’t return messages.

Additional reporting by Priscilla DeGregory