Bianca Jagger Evicted From Apartment
Dec 17th, 2007 by admin
Clipped From The Welland Tribune
Bianca Jagger has been evicted from her rent-stabilized Park Avenue apartment after several years of quarrelling with her landlord over claims of toxic mould and questions about her residency, her lawyer said.
After a recent appeals court ruling against her, Jagger knew the eviction was coming. She found out from a neighbour that a sheriff had arrived Wednesday to move her possessions to storage, lawyer Daniel Bryson said. “This is an absolute travesty.”
A lawyer for landlord Katz Park Avenue Corp. didn’t immediately return a telephone call.
Lawyers for the 62-year-old Jagger, who was married to rocker Mick Jagger, have maintained that Katz evicted her as payback. She sued the landlord in 2003, claiming mould had made her sick and the apartment unlivable.
But Katz argued that the 18th-floor apartment couldn’t be Jagger’s primary residence - a requirement for occupying a rent-stabilized unit - since she was in the U.S. on a tourist visa that required her to show that she intended to leave after a temporary stay.
The actress-turned-activist has been a tenant in the Upper East Side apartment for 20 years.