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| Bianca Jagger to be booted from home |
| 2007-10-18 |
| 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. Tenants in rent-stablised apartments are protected from sharp increases in rent. Once a tenant leaves a rent-stabilised apartment, the landlord is free to charge market rate. |
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