• 31 Jul 2009 at 3:42 PM

Richard Perry Will Burn Your Eyes Out With His Bling

By Bess Levin

Picture 1847.pngAt left is the sculpture Richard Perry and his wife, man-purse designer Lisa had installed on their terrace at 1 Sutton Place South in 2007. Nobody had much of a problem with the piece– a Jeff Koons, worth a few million or so– back then but lately the garish display has started to stick in the craw of Perry’s neighbs, for two reasons. First, they think it’s hideous. “I think it’s as ugly as it comes,” said Juergen Thieme, who lives across the street at 2 Sutton Place. And second? It’s freaking blinding them.

Neighbors who live across the street in a penthouse at 14 Sutton Place complained that the light reflecting off it was burning like lasers through their windows, and workmen had to adjust the diamond’s positioning, a source said.

It was one thing when a certain art loving hedge fund manager had a crane dump a diamond encrusted money sign the size of a football field on the roof of his Greenwich-area manse, disrupting gravitational pulls and distracting planes flying overhead. But this? This is quite another.
Diamond In The Roof [NYP via Daily Intel]

Comments (18)

  1. 1
    Posted by guest | July 31, 2009 at 3:45 PM

    that’s some fug shit right there

  2. 2
    Posted by guest | July 31, 2009 at 3:46 PM

    dick, you have hideous taste in art.
    -sc

  3. 3
    Posted by Investorcluzo | July 31, 2009 at 3:48 PM

    Rich, that would look great in the foyer of my office, give me a call.
    -David Einhorn

  4. 4
    Posted by guest | July 31, 2009 at 3:50 PM

    how is perry doing this year?

  5. 5
    Posted by guest | July 31, 2009 at 3:50 PM

    I have a cornhole piercing just like that, but smaller.
    Dennis Kneale

  6. 6
    Posted by guest | July 31, 2009 at 3:51 PM

    fuck yeah lasers!

  7. 7
    Posted by guest | July 31, 2009 at 3:52 PM

    did stevie really do that?

  8. 8
    Posted by guest | July 31, 2009 at 3:57 PM

    @7 yeah, cockbag, I did. what of it?
    -SC

  9. 9
    Posted by guest | July 31, 2009 at 3:59 PM

    Actually that’s dope.

  10. 10
    Posted by guest | July 31, 2009 at 4:01 PM

    Any wealthy murse-bearer would necessarily have a Green Lantern baby-making machine beacon too.

  11. 11
    Posted by guest | July 31, 2009 at 4:04 PM

    @10 green lantern baby making machine for the win.
    http://dealbreaker.com/2009/07/presnted-without-comment-the-g.php

  12. 12
    Posted by Anal_yst | July 31, 2009 at 4:08 PM

    anyone wanna organize a black ops mission?

  13. 13
    Posted by guest | July 31, 2009 at 4:22 PM

    Actually that is a turd that swueezed of Assman during one of his tirades about (insert subject here).

  14. 14
    Posted by guest | July 31, 2009 at 4:23 PM

    Actually that is a turd that squeezed of Assman during one of his tirades about (insert subject here).

  15. 15
    Posted by guest | July 31, 2009 at 4:25 PM

    $11.8M is a lot to spend on a fake green diamond by a still-living artist.
    -2StopShop

  16. 16
    Posted by Anal_yst | July 31, 2009 at 4:35 PM

    @15
    Its an emerald, the diamond one is blue, http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/25697/for-the-price-of-jeff-koonss-blue-diamond/

  17. 17
    Posted by guest | July 31, 2009 at 4:59 PM

    @16
    Right back at ya, http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/27580/the-ring-and-the-bling/
    -2SS

  18. 18
    Posted by guest | September 11, 2009 at 7:05 PM

    As the French say “mauvais gout” for those who have no taste but don’t know it. Buying “name” art doesn’t make it appropriate. Les nouveaux riches!

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