A woman spent three days stuck in the elevator of a Manhattan mansion

A woman spent three days and three nights stuck in the private elevator of a mansion Manhattan before being rescued, police said Monday.

The 53-year-old woman was saved and on Monday she was dehydrated but in a stable condition at Weill Cornell Medical Center, authorities said. The woman is an employee of the home owner, a billionaire investor from Arkansas.

At around 10 am on Monday morning, authorities responded to a call to emergency number 911 from the mansion on East 65th Street near Central Park. Firefighters forced the elevator doors, blocked between the second and third floors of the five-story property.

The woman, Marits Fortaliza, of Queens, told the authorities that she had been trapped on Friday and that the owners had left home for the weekend.

The distress call at emergency number 911 was coming from the mansion but the authorities did not specify who had done it.

The mansion built in 1920 has a garden and was bought by Warren A. Stephens and his wife Harriet Stephens for $ 8 million in 1999. The banker did not respond to a message asking that Stephens inc. investment bank based in Little Rock, Arkansas.

It is estimated that the wealth of Warren Stephens, 61, chairman of the bank's board of directors and chief executive officer of the bank, is valued at 2,600 million euros on the Forbes list. The company, founded by an uncle of Stephens, subscribed to Wal-Mart's public offering in 1970 and supported the obligations of the Louisiana Superdome.

The incident is being investigated. No violations were found during the last inspection in July, according to the Department of Property records. Authorities did not know if the elevator had an emergency button or if the woman had a cell phone.

Police believe that this was not a deliberate act, but reports of incidents trapped by so many days in elevators in New York are rare.

In 2005, a worker at a Chinese restaurant was stuck in a Bronx elevator for about 80 hours. In 1999, a man spent 40 hours in an elevator of an office building in Manhattan, until he was seen under a security camera.