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Bianca Jagger's attempt to get her $4,600/month rent-stabilized Upper East Side apartment back failed at the Court of Appeals today. The court upheld her eviction from 530 Park Avenue, citing her status as a tourist with a B-2 visa and the fact that residents of rent-stabilized apartments must use them as their primary residences.
Judge Robert S. Smith wrote in the decision (PDF), "We conclude that, absent some unusual circumstance, a primary residence in New York and a B-2 visa are logically incompatible." You've come a long way from Studio 54, Bianca.
Jagger's contretemps with her landlord, Katz Park Avenue, began when she sued her landlord for $20 million and withheld rent starting in 2003 (the rent has been put in escrow). Katz retaliated, suing and then evicting her from the apartment using the visa/primary residence argument. In the appeal, Jagger's lawyer tried to argue his client was a "snowbird"--someone who spends winters away but returns--which apparently didn't fly, nor did his opinion that "primary residence is a term of art."
Curbed suggests that Jagger's daughter Jade toss in a home.
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She kept a white horse in the apartment? That probably didn't go over well with the other tenants.
Rent stabilization for jet setter celebrities?
If you can afford 4600 dollars a month for rent, you don't need rent stabilization.
She should have applied for Landmark Status.She's a landmark.
If she's at $4,600, then the landlord could ask for her tax returns, see if she makes 175k or more, then de-stabilize the apt if so. Are we to believe Bianca's income is less than $175k?
Soudn like the landlord is a real idiot for letting go on this long.
b*tch
Rent stabilization was put into place to protect working class tenants from landlords. It was most emphatically NOT designed to provide affluent foreigners with cheap pied-a-terres.