Malibu : Sinatra Loses to Neighbors
The California Coastal Commission has rejected Frank Sinatra’s bid to prevent his next-door neighbor on Malibu’s Broad Beach from building a new sun deck that will provide a view of the entertainer’s swimming pool.
The state panel last week approved the proposal by Sidney and Lorraine Sheinberg, despite objections by a lawyer for Sinatra who contended that the sun deck, to be built atop an expanded garage, would intrude on the entertainer’s privacy.
The Sheinbergs’ lawyer, Sherman Stacey, argued that there is a limit to the privacy Sinatra and his wife, Barbara, should expect, living in a 7,500-square-foot beach house on a lot that is 40 feet wide.
The Sinatras tore down a previous two-story house on the property, for which they paid $3 million in 1990, to build their house there last year.
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