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A gorgeous French Chateau located in the hills above the French Riviera has been ordered to be demolished after a 15-year court battle over the property finally came to an end. Patrick Diter bought a rundown 2,000-square-foot home on a huge parcel of land and started to expand on it. Chateau Diter, as he calls it, had been abandoned for years and regularly squatted in before he bought it. When Diter bought the property, a permit was obtained to put a small expansion onto the house. The problem ...

Advertisement A £48million mansion nestled in the hills above the French Riviera must be demolished after a court ruling brought a 15-year legal standoff to an end.  Property tycoon Patrick Diter built a 32,000 sq ft Italianate palace, dubbed Chateau Diter, on the site of what was once a modest 2,000 sq ft farmhouse without first obtaining planning permission.  The building work started in 2005 and in 2009 a group of disgruntled neighbours, led by British millionaires Stephen and Caroline B...