John Paulson trying to use girlfriend’s DUI arrest to reduce paying wife Jenny

Billionaire John Paulson is determined to reduce paying out his estranged wife, Jenny, and is using ’s story of his girlfriend Alina de Almeida’s DUI arrest as the means of doing so.

Court documents filed in a New Jersey Court exclusively obtained by show the hedge fund manager and his attorneys are attempting to subpoena a private investigator he believes Jenny hired to gain information on de Almeida.

The filing includes a letter from John’s attorneys that states if Jenny was responsible for leaking the police report and “generating negative publicity” about the financier, it would be relevant to the “equitable distribution” of assets in their ongoing bitter divorce battle.

The letter further states that it would vacate any idea of an equal payout and instead would remand “for further proceedings to determine the effect of [Jenny’s] conduct.”

Subsequently filed court documents show the PI’s attorney arguing the subpoena should be quashed because John, 68, cannot prove the information his team is seeking is “relevant” to the pair’s divorce.

“Simply put, there is no connection between Mrs. Paulson and the [open records] request submitted by
Apple Consulting,” the document states.

The documents, obtained by , also state that Jenny did not retain Apple Consulting, the PI group in question.

PI James Nanos also confirmed in a letter submitted to the court that Jenny did not retain his services and he’s had neither “direct or indirect communications” with Jenny.

There is yet to be a decision regarding the subpoena.

Jenny’s legal advisor, former White House special counsel Lanny Davis, declined to comment on the details of the motion “except to confirm that neither I nor Bob Cohen nor Mrs. Paulson had knowledge of this story before or ahead of time and nothing to do, directly or indirectly, with disclosure of this information to anyone — despite…