Posted on 10/18/2007 4:33:34 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Jagger to be booted from home
From correspondents in New York
October 19, 2007 08:59am Article from: Reuters
A NEW York appeals court has ruled that a landlord can evict Bianca Jagger from her Park Avenue apartment because of her immigration status.
The former wife of Rolling Stone Mick Jagger has lived in the rent-stabilised apartment for 20 years and argued that it was her primary residence and her landlord should be barred from evicting her.
A British citizen who was born in Nicaragua, Jagger is in the United States on a B-2 tourist visa.
Her lawyer Ryan Goldstein had argued that mould in the apartment had made it unliveable and she had stopped paying the $US4614 ($5148) a month rent in 2003.
The landlord, Katz Park Avenue Corporation, said Jagger was in the US on a tourist visa and was not eligible to maintain permanent residence.
The 3-2 decision by New York State Supreme Court's Appellate Division reversed a lower court's finding.
The decision, which noted that the environmental activist also had a luxury apartment in London's Belgravia, said Jagger would also have to pay back rent and other fees.
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Pity. Could someone check the immigration status of Yoko Ono? She’s one that needs to get thee the hell out.
How can a person not pay rent for 4 years and not be evicted???
Gee, no squatters rights or nothing. Boo Freepin' hoo.
Well, there's your problem right there, mate. We don't have mould in this country, only mold. Perhaps the landlord thought she was complaining about the moulding around the doors and windows or something, and that's hardly a reason not to pay rent.
ping
Buh Bye.
LOL
LMAO!
Not to be a jerk (I guess I’ll come off as one anyway), but the article originated from Australia where I imagine they spell mold mould. Much like the British spell color colour.
Quick math - $247,104. Dang. She can pick up some easy scratch by doing what she does. Other than not paying rent, what does she do again?
Very funny! Actually, I suspect Jagger's claim is bogus. We have very little mold (or mould), not enough to withhold rent over anyway, in the northeast US ... unless you have a basement apartment, or an unvented bath. Which I doubt Ms. Jagger's Park Avenue address had.
Btw, landlord/tenant law requires that rent that is withheld by the tenant must be placed in an escrow account, pending resolution of the dispute. Wonder if Jagger obeyed that law?
Yet she refused to leave?
Eggsactley ... the joke wouldn't work otherwise :)
With a tip of the hat to George Bernard Shaw /obscure.
I love how all these rich scumbags have rent-controlled apartments in Manhattan while the little people get priced out of town. There's liberal compassion in a nutshell.
Bye Bye Binaca, you can’t always get whut you wa-unt.
Nice to know the courts have the final say as to who a private citizen may or may not evict from his own property. When were the black-robes given their feifdoms? Nothing new I suppose...I’ll just go back to buying consumer goods. Sorry I even looked up. baaa... baaa...
Four years to evict someone. Gotta love those liberal states. And, she could argue that she shouldn’t be evicted because it is her permanent home? Is that a real excuse in NY? If that is the case one could never evict a non-paying tenant as most folks only have one home, unlike Bianca.
I will never complain again when a (really long, trial included) eviction takes 6 weeks.
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