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:
It’s beautiful and soothing.
I need to look up that artist!
This is not a bad idea ... be sure to include the address so others can enjoy the “artwork”.
Am i missing something? A million dollars? For THAT???
Jesus’ sacred name is soul-saving and worthy of nothing less than our respect.
It looks like seaweed.
Not what I’d put in my yard, but not offensive.
Suing over that??
It looks like a seafloor-inspired sculpture. It’s hardly hideous, but, of course, that’s subjective. It certainly isn’t worth neighborly discord and lawsuit fees.
Dale Chihuly explains the price. Paying for his name
Who cares what other people do with THEIR OWN property...
Pfft. That’s easy compared to the average Polish surname.
Evidently the Bond King needed a distraction with the way bonds have been doing lately. LOL
It’s beautiful and soothing.
I need to look up that artist!
The guy should just laugh at the thought that the idiot spent a million bucks on that ridiculous atrocity.
They had a lawsuit over that? First world problems. Wow people are morons.
Yes, bamboo makes a good closed tall “hedge row”, when it’s mature, and also it does grow quicker than the tall skinny Italian cypress.
“when you have a cool $7 million in the bank, life is all wine and roses.“
7 million is upper middle class, well to do, not wealthy. 7 million is not security.
Private property rights, if there’s no HellOA. Looks like a Chihuly sculpture to me; likely since it cost $1M. I’ve seen much worse.
If it isn’t a Dale Chihuli (glass artist from Seattle) it is a knock off. I’ve got to admit never being a fan until I went to the exhibit at the space needle. individually, they are simply globs of deformed glass bubbles. But in the exhibit, they are pretty impressive in their extreme garish colors, shapes and assembly.
If that is the place the neighbor to his south has to look past that sculpture to see the ocean. So, I don't blame him for being mad, if he does not like the art.
But, the man has a right to put anything on his property he wants. Money talks and BS walks. The 'Karen' is out of luck. That being the case he does have options.
I was expecting something far worse than that, and much larger. I don’t find it particularly offensive.
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