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The estranged daughter of the upstate New York nanny accused of squatting in her wealthy clients’ home also gave her mom the boot for allegedly causing “the exact same” problems in her house, The Post has learned. Barbara Molnar’s eldest daughter insisted the portrayal of her parent as a troublemaking nanny in a recent Cut article was “very accurate” — even as she stressed her mom isn’t all bad and has talent that’s been marred by instability. “My mother is somebody with a lot of mental health issues that has refused to get help, and what she did with this family is what she does — and she did the exact same thing to me and my children the summer before she went to that family, so it’s pretty accurate,” the daughter, who asked not to be identified, told The Post Thursday. Molnar, in a combative phone call, initially declined to address her daughter’s claims and even deferred to her friend, George, who was also on the call and lambasted the media and the Cut story. Hours later, she sent a statement over text implying she was ready to go to court over the accusations lodged against her. “The truth about everything, backed by hard evidence, will come out in a court. That is where you and the rest of the world will get my response,” Molnar vowed. “As for my eldest daughter we will see who will be adjudged ‘mentally ill’ and who is not in a court and in a court of public opinion once hard and incontrovertible evidence is presented.” Molnar was forcefully nudged into the spotlight when Jamie Carano Nordenström and her husband, Philip Nordenström, accused her of going from their newborn daughter’s dream nanny to a nightmare who caused damage and sowed chaos inside their Hillsdale home. The nanny didn’t clean up after herself or her pup and allowed her son’s friends to have a pool party while the Nordenströms weren’t home, Jamie alleged to the Cut. As things soured and Molnar was fired, Nordenström’s lawyer demanded the nanny leave via a 10-day notice — which passed with no sign of Molnar vacating, the Cut reported. In an eviction petition against Molnar by the new parents, they accused Molnar of being a “professional con-artist,” according to the Cut. Molnar painted a different picture in the story, and again rejected the accusations while talking to The Post. She insisted she was the real victim — who’s “going to be completely discredited and slandered” — to the Cut. Molnar was married to big-shot restaurateur Fabio Granato, who owns Serafina Restaurant in the Big Apple. The former couple divorced years ago and share three children, including her eldest daughter. Molnar, in a moment of need, moved to her daughter’s home in June 2024 with the teen son she had with a French fling, according to her daughter, a 34-year-old married mother of two. “She was homeless, and she had my younger brother with her, and I just had a moment where … she sounded like she was doing better, and maybe I could have a relationship with her so I chose to open my door to her and to help her, and that’s what I chose to do,” Molnar’s daughter said. But “erratic” behavior led to her ouster in early August, the daughter said. She left without an issue. Her daughter declined to elaborate much on her mother’s behavior because she said she wanted to protect the privacy of her two kids, but said it was similar to what she read in the Cut story. She also claimed Molnar tried to paint her as a bad parent to her kids, now 3 years old and 5 years old. Molnar’s daughter said she’s had an on-and-off relationship with her mother since she was 17 years old, and vowed to never to talk to her mother again. Still, the eldest daughter had some praise for her mother and stressed she didn’t want Molnar to only be viewed harshly. Molnar helped her fuel the creation of Serafina with her then-husband at the very beginning, the daughter recalled, dating back to her childhood. “Who she is now is not who I remember,” her offspring explained. “My mom was a very beautiful, charismatic person that had a lot of incredible ideas and was very talented.” The daughter said she couldn’t pinpoint what led to her ongoing problems, but called her mom’s struggles a “tragedy of life” and stressed she’s been forced to raise her half-brother alone without help. “That she is somebody who had a lot of potential, a lot of talent, somewhere along the way something happened and she just changed and she wasn’t the person she could’ve been, and she had the potential to be,” her daughter explained. “And again, I just think like it’s sad, I don’t think that she does these things intentionally, I don’t think she goes in with the intent to do things like this, that she just is somebody who isn’t really stable.” Jamie Nordenström said she had no comment when asked about Molner’s blanket denial Thursday afternoon.
