The squatter situation, particularly in blue states and deep blue cities, continues to raise eyebrows and garner headlines, with the latest wild incident happening in an extremely wealthy, ritzy area of Los Angeles. There, a group of squatters have taken advantage of California’s squatter rights laws to take over a mansion just a block away from the new home of LeBron James.
The neighborhood in which this incident occurred is Beverly Grove Place, an ultra-wealthy neighborhood that is adjacent to the more famous and similarly affluent Beverly Hills neighborhood. Beverly Grove Place is notable outside of the extreme wealth present in it because a) it is the soon-to-be-home of LeBron James, the NBA player, and is now the scene of another squatting scandal.
According to the New York Post, in this situation, the group of squatters took over a 5,900-square-foot mansion worth $4.6 million. That group of squatters was led by an aspiring actor named Morgan Gargiulo, who fabricated a fake lease to establish a claim to the mansion and frame himself as a legal resident of the somewhat neglected mansion.
Once Gargiulo took over the mansion, he turned it into a party zone, demanding massive admission fees from $500 to $1,500 for the parties that raged in the mansion five evenings every week, parties that filled the neighborhood with unwelcome visitors and clogged up the streets with cars and traffic, infuriating many of the squatters’ neighbors.
The situation was so bad that LeBron, a far-left personality, was reportedly “concerned” about the squatters.
What’s more, according to the New York Post, law enforcement proved impotent to deal with the situation when residents of the expensive neighborhood complained about the disruptive parties. That is because, though they knew Gargiulo was lying, he was able to use his fake lease to assert tenancy rights and claim the property.
Further, the New York Post, reporting on the situation and how Gargiulo, who eventually moved out after staying in the residence for months, was able to lay claim to the property, said, “Despite California law deeming squatting illegal, “adverse possession” statutes allow squatters to stake a claim over a property after five years of uninterrupted occupancy.” It added, “While Gargiulo hadn’t met this threshold, his gambit highlighted the flaws in California’s legal framework.”
Commenting on X about the issue, people said things like “The law of Reaping and sowing. Flawless victory” and “Enjoy the consequences of your own actions.” Another added, “If they can do this, we might as well just go out there and find an abandoned mansion to squat in 🤣” Still another joked, “🤣 If I had known it was this easy, I’d be watching the sunset from a beach house right now. I better go pick one before all the good ones are taken.”
Yet another commenter joked, “Rich liberals should have voluntarily opened their homes to the “needy”, they helped create them. Now we have illegal aliens catching on to “squatters rights”, I can hardly wait until they find Oprah’s mansion.“
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