# Most expensive private revenge

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**Created:** [September 14, 2018, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-expensive-private-revenge/821330 "2018-09-14T11:15:21Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 17, 2018, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-expensive-private-revenge/821330/24 "2018-09-17T15:57:31Z")

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> [@friedo](#):
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> In 2006, Dr. Nicholas Bartha [blew up](https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/16/nyregion/16cnd-doctor.html) his multimillion dollar Manhattan townhouse, with him inside, rather than allow his wife to get it in the divorce.

Seems to be a popular pastime among zillionaires.

From [this thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=861864)

> [@Jesus, Mary and Joseph that's bad restoration!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-mary-and-joseph-thats-bad-restoration/820978/23):
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> Anyone remember when Sheik Mohammad Al-Fassi painted the statues in his Beverly Hills mansion flesh tone, with pubic hair? [Link](http://alisonmartino.blog/2017/07/08/the-sheiks-house-in-beverly-hills/).

Al-Fassi’s mansion mysteriously burned down while he was in the middle of a messy divorce.

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