Mohamed Hadid to face charges; Vanity Fair scraps article
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The saga of how Hadid was hell-bent on building one of the biggest, baddest palaces in Los Angeles, is one filled with accusations of thievery, bribery and intimidation.
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Palestine-born Hadid was ordered to stop work on the monstrosity as criminal charges were filed by the city alleging construction of the mansion blatantly flouted building rules.
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The billionaire property developer father of supermodels Gigi and Bella Hadid has finally started to tear down parts of his huge 30,000 sq. ft. mega-mansion as he awaits a criminal trial in relation to its controversial construction.
But the work has come too late for Carole Cramer, the one-time big-band singer who had been at the forefront of the protests over Mohamed Hadid’s building he called The Modern House of Hadid but detractors nicknamed Starship Enterprise.
A widow who had no children, Cramer died at aged 89 in April, tormented by the constant construction work just feet from her bedroom window, Daily Mail Online has learned exclusively.
Cramer, who sang with the Tommy Dorsey Big Band, was confined to a wheelchair and spent almost all of her last years in her bedroom overlooking Hadid’s construction work. She claimed Hadid had stolen some of her land to build a retaining wall just feet from her home.
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Last year Cramer told Daily Mail Online Hadid had told her that she didn’t need the land he wanted as she would ‘die soon.’
‘He’s a terrible man,’ said Cramer, who died on April 28. ‘He came into my garden and told my gardener I have so much land and that I don't use and said I was a bitch,' she added.
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He did not return repeated phone calls and emails asking for comment on the latest developments, however Daily Mail Online has seen a lengthy letter he sent to the New York Times, which the paper declined to publish.
In it, the Palestine-born builder blames anti-Muslim sentiment for the furor that has surrounded his estate, which was featured in a front page article in the newspaper last year.
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Vanity Fair magazine is bracing for a second controversy over killing a major article after long-time editor Graydon Carter decided to scrap a story on Mohamed Hadid’s controversial Bel Air home.
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Vanity Fair did not immediately respond to calls asking why Carter made the decision
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Vanity Fair has written several complementary pieces about Hadid’s two daughters. In August last year Derek Blasberg wrote a story called Gigi ‘The supermodel with serious social media chops.’ In November she and Kendall Jenner were featured as ‘the new class’ at Victoria’s Secret’s fashion show and in May, Josh Dubow called her ‘both California Surfer Babe and Sleek Euro Fashion Model.’
This wouldn't be a surprise but given the fact that The Daily Mail is among the lowest of all journalism outlets I'll wait until someone else reports it.
They're trying to insinuate that Vanity Fair is in his pocket as if there aren't hundreds of freelancers working there that would of course write clickbait articles about the Hadid girls. The Daily Mail is just trying to hint at corruption when there's no proof of it.
This happens here all the time, stealing someone else's land, violating building rules, always wanting to have the biggest behemoth of a house to live in. My culture shows itself anywhere.
