In the posh city of Malibu, Barbie and Ken rollerblade, homes sell for up to $210m – and a billionaire is digging up the beach.
In a lawsuit filed last week, the local resident James Kohlberg alleges that his neighbor, the billionaire businessman and baseball team owner Mark Attanasio, has been using construction equipment to excavate Malibu’s Broad Beach and move sand on to his private property.
“This case is about a private property owner using a public beach as their own personal sandbox,” the suit claims.
Kohlberg, the son of the founder of the global investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, and Attanasio, who owns the Milwaukee Brewers baseball team, own homes that occupy a stretch of Malibu beach that has long struggled with…
