You could say it’s his obsession.
A Manhattan man trying to harpoon a whale of a fortune claims he’s a descendant of “Moby Dick” author Herman Melville and has filed nearly half a dozen lawsuits trying to recoup his “uncle’s” estate.
“ ‘Moby Dick’ is published all over the world repeatedly — and I am in dire poverty,” Charles Cors says in Manhattan federal-court papers.
Cors claims in his handwritten lawsuits that he was named conservator of the famed 19th-century New York writer’s estate in a 1917 will.
He offers no proof of his relation to the legendary wordsmith, but Cors — who lists his address as a Chelsea homeless shelter — claims the estate is worth $75 million, stretches across 90 countries, and “includes Tiffany jewelors [sic], the Chrysler building, public buildings [and] townhouses of architectural claim.”
Experts at the Melville Society couldn’t confirm Cors’ claim.