Zuckerberg Gumshoe’s Goal Was Intimidation, Developer Says

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Bloomberg:

Mark Zuckerberg’s backyard privacy showdown has grown more tangled with competing claims about a mysterious African prince and a private eye accused of bullying a witness.

 

The Facebook Inc. founder is accused in a real estate developer’s lawsuit of reneging on a promise to introduce him to Silicon Valley’s elite as part of a $1.7 million deal that ended plans for a mansion with a view into the 31-year-old billionaire’s bedroom.

 

Zuckerberg’s lawyers claim that after digging into developer Mircea Voskerician’s version of events, they aren’t convinced a prince who purportedly offered 2 1/2 times that for the property rights really exists.

 

Voskerician contends the true objective of Zuckerberg’s detective was to intimidate a witness.

 

The current squabble comes in a dispute that has already exposed internal Facebook e-mails and spurred a $39 million real estate shopping spree to protect the tranquility of Zuckerberg’s two-story home in Palo Alto, California. As the two sides cast aspersions aimed at undermining the other’s credibility, the case moves closer to a trial scheduled for November that may air even more unseemly details.

 

Whether the developer conjured up a competing offer to make his lawsuit more compelling may prove to be one of those details.

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