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The future doesn’t look so bright for Facebook creator and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, as he is presently in a bad legal position involving a house he bought two years ago, after this week’s discharge of new court files. Mark Zuckerberg was brought to court by his former neighbor.
The current story begins in 2012 when developer Mircea Voskerician informed Zuckerberg that he wanted to build house behind the residence of Palo Alto’s exec. Considering Zuckerberg’s notoriety for being a private individual, Voskerician proposed to offer Zuckerberg a little piece of the property, in order to guarantee his privacy. The 9,600 square foot building, said Voskerician, would permit residents a perspective into Zuckerberg’s home, including his main room. Zuckerberg’s wife Priscilla Chan did not take it well and said that the move made her “sad and angry.”
Not before long, Zuckerberg consented to purchase Voskerician’s contractual rights to the property, an while a different investor had offered $4.3 million to the designer, he still ran with Zuckerberg’s $1.7 million offer as he had guaranteed to acquaint him with “big names” in the tech business, including those associated with Facebook, Google, and Apple.
The two neighbors closed a deal in December 2012, when they met at the Facebook headquarter to negotiate upon Zuckerberg’s buy of the whole bordering property.
Voskerician’s real estate expert John Forsyth James’ court declarations cited the Facebook big boss’ own agent Terri Kerwin, who allegedly let him know that “Mark always his promises.”
But with that promise purportedly broken, Voskerician sued Zuckerberg in May 2014, claiming that he did not respect his promise to present the develop to Silicon Valley tech hot shots.
In the prepared statements, both parties’ legal representatives have demanded that their clients posess the truth of what happened. Zuckerberg’s legal experts alluded to Voskerician’s practices as “extortionist ” and that they serve as approaches to humiliate Zuckerberg and put pressure on those around him.
On the other side, James’ statements say that Zuckerberg didn’t respect his commitments to present Voskerician to tech officials. The plot is unquestionably thickening, and it remains to be seen how the Facebook’s founder manages this extremely open debate.
Facebook representatives declined to remark on the trial, which is viewed as Zuckerberg’s personal matter.
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