She says she didn’t earn her money on her back.
The mistress of a deceased luxury-car dealer — who is suing his boss to honor an employment contract she signed with her late lover — testified yesterday that she was a valuable employee despite the owner’s claims she was a kept woman.
Brunette beauty Emel Dilek insisted that she brought “excitement and enthusiasm” when she went to work for Mercedes-Benz of Greenwich after hooking up with its much older — and married — chief operations officer, Ronald Pecunies.
“Was your role . . . to sleep with the boss?” Dilek’s lawyer, Elissa Fudim, asked her in Manhattan federal court.
“Absolutely not,” Dilek answered icily.
Dilek, 34, took a shot at company owner Arthur “Kitt” Watson when one of his lawyers questioned the relevance of documents Dilek said she created as manager of the dealership’s business-development center.
“Your client said I had a no-show job!” Dilek angrily interjected from the witness stand.
Dilek is suing Watson’s company, Watson Enterprises, over a $120,000-a-year employment contract she inked with Pecunies in late 2009 shortly after he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
Watson testified during a deposition that he canceled the four-year deal following Pecunies’ May 2010 death at the age of 80, noting that the only thing he knew Dilek did for the firm “on a regular basis” was “sleep with Ron.”
Dilek, who yesterday wore a form-fitting black pantsuit with a scoop-necked white patterned blouse, testified that she’s been unable to find another job because of a report in The Post last year that revealed Watson’s startling allegation.
She said “hundreds” of Web sites had picked up the news, including some in her parents’ native Turkey that featured “devastating headlines.”
Dilek said she has since stopped Googling her name, “because the person in the articles is described as a prostitute.”
During cross-examination, Dilek tried to avoid saying when she began sleeping with Pecunies after they met at a 2004 fund-raising event she organized as an intern for Mercedes-Benz USA.
After Judge Paul Oetken told her she had to answer the question, she sheepishly admitted it was during the same year.
And when asked if that was prior to her employment at Mercedes-Benz of Greenwich, Dilek conceded, “That’s mathematically correct.”
But she insisted that she didn’t learn he was married until two years into their relationship, and that he had been separated from his wife “for close to three decades.”
Dilek also said she is still “traumatized” by the death of Pecunies, whom she called “the love of my life.”
“He was my family, so it was devastating, and I do not want to be discriminated against because of the age difference,” she said.
“I have an old soul, and he had a young spirit.”
