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Bill Gross harassed neighbor with ‘Gilligan’s Island’ song, judge rules [Los Angeles Times]
Billionaire bond investor Bill Gross and his girlfriend were found Wednesday by a Orange County Superior Court judge to have harassed their neighbors with loud music, including the theme song to the classic TV show “Gilligan’s Island,” in a dispute over a $1-million outdoor lawn sculpture.
Judge Kimberly Knill also ruled that Gross had failed to prove that his Laguna Beach neighbor, Mark Towfiq, had invaded his privacy.
She issued a civil harassment order prohibiting Gross and his partner, Amy Schwartz, from violating the noise provisions of the city’s municipal code and playing music on their outdoor speakers when they were not outside themselves. She denied Gross’ own request for a civil harassment order.
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Billionaire Bill Gross harassed his Laguna Beach neighbors by playing the “Gilligan’s Island” theme song on a loop, an Orange County Superior Court judge held Wednesday. File Photo
An Orange County Superior Court judge held Wednesday that PIMCO founder Bill Gross and his girlfriend harassed their Laguna Beach neighbors earlier this year, playing the “Gilligan’s Island” theme song on a loop until they agreed to drop a code enforcement complaint.
Following a seven-week trial, Judge Kimberly Knill ruled in favor of a restraining order request by Mark Towfiq and Carol Nakahara, who own a home next to the ocean cliffside home Gross and former professional tennis player Amy Schwartz use as their weekend getaway.
Surprisingly, new home sales hit five-month low
Updated December 23, 2020, 6:27 p.m.
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A worker stood inside the garage of a new home under construction by Pardee Construction LLC in the Pacific Highlands Ranch master planned community in San Diego during the summer. New-home sales in the United States dropped to a five-month low in November.Bing Guan/Bloomberg News
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New-home sales nationwide unexpectedly tumble to lowest level since June
New-home sales in the United States dropped to a five-month low, suggesting red-hot demand is cooling amid resurgent COVID-19 cases and other signs of a slowing economy. Purchases of new single-family houses decreased 11 percent to an 841,000 annualized pace in November from a downwardly revised 945,000 rate in the prior month, government data showed Wednesday. The median projection in a Bloomberg survey of economists called for 995,000. The median selling price rose 2.2 percent from a year earlier to $335,300. The d
Judge tells ‘bond king’ Bill Gross to stop blasting ‘Gilligan’s Island’ theme outside his home
PIMCO co-founder Gross and tech entrepreneur Mark Towfiq are neighbors who’ve fought over blocked driveways and netting over a Chihuly sculpture. The sitcom theme songs resulted in dueling harassment complaints and a 9-day trial.
This Oct. 2, 1978, file photo shows the cast of Gilligan s Island. Left to right: Russell Johnson, as the professor; Jim Backus as Thurston Howell III; Natalie Schafer, as Mrs. Howell III; Alan Hale Jr., as the skipper; Bob Denver, as Gilligan; Judith Baldwin replacing original cast member Tina Louise, as Ginger; and Dawn Wells, as Mary Ann, posing during filming of a two-hour reunion show, The Return from Gilligan s Island. (WALLY FONG / AP)