Party House Tenant Sues City for Harassment, Defamation : Lawsuit: Jerry Bolduc has been in conflict with officials who want an end to the revelry at sprawling hillside mansion.

Jerry Bolduc, master of the revels at the “Party Palace”--a controversial hillside mansion where annoyed neighbors say the fun never stops--sued the city of Los Angeles for $1 million Wednesday, complaining that city officials are harassing him and ruining his name.

“They are making all these wild accusations about things I haven’t done,” said Bolduc, who also goes by the name “Jerry Bo.”

“Girls that I wanted to date think that I have wild orgies now. . . . After all this, who is ever going to rent to me again?”

Bolduc has been at odds with city officials since August. Councilman Joel Wachs and others sided with neighbors complaining that the sprawling 7,500-square-foot mansion he leases on Wrightwood Drive houses a commercial venture where hundreds of people pay admission to attend all-night parties and buy drinks.

The city attorney’s office brought a lawsuit against the owner of the house and the tenants to put an end to the parties. The mansion’s owner, Paul Campbell, and the mortgage holder on the $2-million house signed a settlement agreement two weeks ago with the city attorney’s office promised that any parties would be limited to 25 guests, wind up by 10 p.m. and serve no alcohol.

Following the settlement, Bolduc said that he, as lessee, was not a part of the agreement and scoffed at the curbs.

His lawsuit against the city asks damages for infliction of emotional distress, libel, slander, defamation, trespassing and invasion of privacy.

The city attorney’s office would not comment on the lawsuit, but spokesman Ted Goldstein said: “It isn’t surprising. He had been threatening to file it for a while.”

Bolduc said that city officials have conspired to end all merry-making at the notorious mansion, and slandered his name in the process.

In addition, Bolduc said, city officials “are harassing the hell out of us.”

Vice officers with the Los Angeles Police Department have hidden in the bushes, invaded his parties and asked female guests if “there were any drugs or prostitution going on,” Bolduc said.

It was an LAPD investigation, brought on by neighbors’ complaints, that culminated in the city’s lawsuit, which alleged that parties at the mansion resulted in public lewdness, parking problems and liquor and safety violations.

City officials say the mansion has been Party Central for the past three years, which they acknowledge predates Bolduc’s arrival. The parties there, sometimes attended by skimpily dressed revelers in accordance with themes like Lingerie Night, have been covered by MTV.

When Bolduc moved in last March, neighbors said, hundreds of wild party-goers continued to flock to gatherings there. Bolduc contends that only a “handful” of parties have been held at the mansion since he has arrived.

“We have had only one big party and that was for charity,” he said. “Besides, we had a city permit.”

Councilman Joel Wachs joined the fray in September, when he proclaimed that no more rowdy parties, loud music or public sex would occur at the mansion.