The tenants of an apartment in the Ian Schrager building on Gramercy Park in Manhattan, which is owned by Icelandic tycoon Jón Ásgeir Jóhannesson and his wife Ingibjörg Pálmadóttir, have filed a lawsuit against the couple for establishing an “ugly” IKEA kitchen in their apartment. Posts Tagged ‘Apartment’
Tenants Sue Icelandic Tycoon Couple
Friday, February 26th, 2010The tenants of an apartment in the Ian Schrager building on Gramercy Park in Manhattan, which is owned by Icelandic tycoon Jón Ásgeir Jóhannesson and his wife Ingibjörg Pálmadóttir, have filed a lawsuit against the couple for establishing an “ugly” IKEA kitchen in their apartment. Jilted Swedish husband uses mice for revenge
Friday, February 12th, 2010
An estranged 59-year-old Swedish man has been arrested following his exploitation of his former wife’s fear of mice to extract a cruel and bizarre revenge which involved inserting some 19 of the rodents through the woman’s letterbox last weekend.
“She was scared out of her wits and is now being cared for in hospital,” said Stockholm police officer Lars Lisberger. The jilted ex-lover has been arrested under suspicion of making unlawful threats to the woman and also under charges relating to animal welfare offences.
Musophobia is defined as ‘an unreasonable and disproportionate fear of rats and mice’ and knowing his former partner’s aversion to the rodents the man travelled to her Marsta apartment in the north of Stockholm in the early hours of the morning accompanied by a mouse-filled paper bag
The rampant murines quickly explored the premises and woke the 37-year-old woman from her slumber; where she was still lucid enough to contact local police at around 7.30am. The man was arrested shortly after and was taken for questioning.
No charges so far have been laid down against the mice though all nineteen were successfully captured at the apartment and remain in police custody awaiting a decision on their future from the county veterinarian. The Local reports that the man has requested his mice are returned to him unharmed.
“He has treated both the mice and his ex-wife badly, so I do not think that he should be given any of them. But we shall have to wait and see what the authorities decide,” said Lisberger.
Investors Needed for Icelandic Health Village
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
A declaration of intent between the company Heilsuthorp and Hrunamannahreppur municipality to establish a 200-apartment health village in Flúdir, south Iceland, was signed almost 12 months ago. However, investors are needed to back the project. Good News
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009The winner of the 35,5 million ISK lottery jackpot from last weekend turned out to be an unemployed, young, single mother who’s just lost her apartment.
Good for her.
It Came To The Point Where I Saw No Sense In Continuing To Pay
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009So what is the bank going to do?
Atli Steinn Gudmundsson, a journalist at visir.is and Bylgjan stopped paying off his mortgage in March. “I would have to be a CEO of a large company to manage all those payments. It came to the point where I saw no sense in continuing to pay” he says to DV.is today.
Atli’s original loan was for 17 million ISK, but taken in foreign currency. Now it is 40 million. Interest payments have gone from 63 thousand ISK up to 130 thousand. He now has tenants in the apartment, and that prevents him from getting the loan frozen.
Gunnar Sigurdsson, director is a generation older than Atli but has taken the same decision. “My next step is to stop paying. I have paid tens and hundreds of thousands a month because of loans for several years. The only thing that happens is that the loans keep rising and rising. When I sat down and started adding things up, I reached the conclusion that I can just as well stop paying”.
No Collateral On Jon Asgeir’s $24 Million Apartment
Saturday, August 1st, 2009Attention all mortgage seekers. Baugur chief Jon Asgeir Johannesson borrowed $24 million from Landsbankinn to buy an apartment at Gramercy Park North in New York without any collateral.
Stunned foreigners must scratch their head when they realize that the owners of each Icelandic bank, didn’t just borrow a whole hell of a lot of money from their own banks but also from the others. Often without collateral or with imaginary collateral.
A great way for a group of 10-30 people to get as much cash out of the whole system as possible.
Partying thief robs a home in Akureyri
Monday, July 6th, 2009
Last night (Sunday) a thief who was partying and possibly drunk broke into an apartment in Akureyri and stole a DVD player and computer printer. The apartment’s residents were not home at the time of the break in. The neighbours spotted the thief leaving the premises and immediately called the police reporting the theft. The theif is now in custody of the police.
(Photo/www.dv.is)
Icelandic First Lady sued in London by neighbour
Friday, July 3rd, 2009
The First Lady of Iceland, Dorrit Moussaieff, has been sued by her neighbour in London, Tiggy Butler. Butler, who is also an interior designer, has been pressing charges against First Lady Moussaieff because of alleged aggressive behaviour and threats made by the First Lady. According to the news source, Daily Mail, the two ladies each own a flat in the same building near the wealthy London neighbourhood of Knightsbridge.
The issue first arose in April when water started leaking from Tiggy’s apartment, who happens to live right above Dorrit’s apartment. Daily Mail says that afterwards, Dorrit is reported to have illegally entered Tiggy’s apartment with two other men and refused to leave Tiggy’s premises. Dorrit did not leave until police arrived at the scene.
Tiggy approached the courts demanding that Dorrit stops harassing her. The case went on in the spring, although recently Tiggy has decided to drop the charges and then was ordered to pay 80% to Dorrit for the water damages caused by the leakage from her apartment.
Dorrit told Daily Mail, “The allegations are baseless. She’s claiming I jumped over a 6ft wall to gain entry, even though the day it is supposed to have happened I was on crutches’. Daily Mail was unable to approach Butler for her response.
(Photo/Icelandic Presidential Website forseti.is)
First Day of Minke Whaling in Iceland
Friday, May 29th, 2009When I arrived in Iceland I found the balcony feature of almost every modern apartment quite bizarre.