Posted on 06/07/2022 12:50:16 PM PDT by servo1969
Oh sure, you may think that when you have a cool $7 million in the bank, life is all wine and roses. But that's wrong. Rich people do have problems, and the latest high drama out of Laguna Beach (average household income around $216,000) proves it:
Bond King Bill Gross has finally won the turf war against his neighbor over a million dollar art installation at the billionaire's California beachfront home.
After a lengthy legal battle, the former PIMCO CEO and his wife, Amy Gross, have won approval from Laguna Beach lawmakers to keep their $1 million, 10-foot-tall cobalt glass sculpture installed in his backyard.
"Amy and I are relieved we can finally enjoy our art in peace and in full compliance with the City of Laguna Beach," Gross said in a statement to The Post.
Oh yeah sure, Mr. Gross, you'll enjoy the heck out of this thing for many years:
What is that, exactly? It looks like a particularly chaotic rendition of a song in Apple Music Visualizer, like the final spike of the legendary choral crescendo in Bohemian Rhapsody:
I mean...
That looks less like art and more like some awful torture device. Seriously, I don't blame the man for wanting it out of his line of sight. I'd get stress headaches having to look at that over my morning coffee every day.
Still, though...things got pretty weird during the fight.
The Grosses filed a complaint that Towfiq was a "peeping Tom" and that he had cameras directed at them — a situation that made them feel like they were "in prison."
Towfiq filed his own complaint alleging the couple were "bullies" and that they blared loud music — namely the Gilligan's Island theme song on repeat. ...
Both parties filed restraining orders against each other.
I gotta say, after seeing how rich people settle their beefs, I'm over here in my solidly-middle-class, perfectly pleasant neighborhood like:
You’re right. It does.
Yeah, I don't see the problem either. It is concordant with the local architecture.
True statement. To be rich you have to at least be a multi millionaire. As in tens of millions.
The neighbor should set up a high def camera to keep an eye on the art and thus any people who want to enjoy the pool would be on camera, that would get the guy to rethink this.
I like it; it fits with its location and the neighbor suing over this sculpture is an idiot and deserved to lose the case.
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