Leonardo Courts Trouble at Home
Leonardo DiCaprio's neighbors won't be challenging him to a pickup game anytime soon.
The couple who live next to the Blood Diamond star in the Hollywood Hills sued him Thursday, claiming that the basketball court he built on his property in 2004 has undermined the land supporting their backyard pool.
Ronald and Joan Linclau are seeking at least $250,000 in damages for trespass, removal of lateral and subjacent support of land and nuisance, according to court documents filed in Los Angeles Superior Court.
The actor's publicist, Ken Sunshine, calls the complaint "totally without merit."
According to the lawsuit, when DiCaprio installed the court several years ago, the construction extended onto the Linclaus' property, destabilizing the slope behind their house and resulting in the removal of some of their plants.
The suit does not mention whether the pool itself was harmed or merely endangered.
DiCaprio, meanwhile, knew that the work was going to affect his neighbors' property, ignored their demands to stop and has refused to pay for any of the damage, according to the Linclaus.
Further down the boulevard, however, everything is right as rain for the Oscar nominee. DiCaprio is currently attached to a handful of films, including the upcoming adaptation of Malcolm Gladwell's bestseller Blink, about the philosophy of making first impressions, and the Ridley Scott-directed thriller Body of Lies, based on David Ignatius' novel, in which DiCaprio plays a former journalist hired by the CIA to hunt down a terrorist in the Middle East.
DiCaprio is also set to reunite with his Titanic costar Kate Winslet in Sam Mendes' Revolutionary Road—another literary adaptation, this one by Richard Yates—as a married couple in 1950s Connecticut who give up the comforts of home to pursue a more bohemian existence in France. Here's hoping things work out better for them there than they did on that boat.
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