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Marquis de Maussabre blows up his family mansion to evade taxes. Airvau, Poitiers, France.
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The Hüseyin Avni Paşa Mansion in Istanbul was completely destroyed by flames on the afternoon of June 28. “[During our analysis of the incident] we discovered there were no electrical connections in the abandoned mansion … the exact reason of the fire cannot be determined, as no [concrete] factor as to what could have caused the blaze has been found,” the fire department’s report said.
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A party intended to be a small gathering for friends saw 2,000 young revelers turn up causing over £400,000 in damage. 60 police cars were called in to deal with the shindig which had been promoted on Twitter using the hashtag #MansionParty. Parents of the boy who hosted the party said they had given him permission ‘to have a small number of people over’. However, after posting news of the party to social media, the house in Brampton, Ontario was flooded with young people who fueled by drinking, drugs, and deafening techno music, proceeded to destroy virtually everything in the house. One party goer called Nick, who claimed to be 16, said: ‘There were hundreds of people here. Some people were climbing over ladders, smashing the windows, and trying to drive their cars into the party through the walls’.
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Superstar rapper 50 Cent’s mansion burned to the ground Friday – and his enraged ex-girlfriend, who was living in the house with their son, accused the entertainer of torching the $2.4 million Long Island home. Shaniqua Tompkins and two of her children, including the rapper’s 10-year-old son, Marquise, were among six people who fled the early morning Dix Hills blaze. “He tried to kill me and his own child,” Tompkins claimed, as she stood screaming outside the decimated mansion hours after the inferno. 50 Cent’s reps refused to respond to her allegations.
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Destroy the Mansion!!!! The owners are gone… The house has no one in it… and i have a rocket launcher and bombs… hehehe… BY ZORO GAMING. odd51 Wut!? I’m juste finishing to destroys!!! 4 days * LittleLittleAdelyn Yes, I know. It’s just colored again. 4 weeks * SpazzMan502 Has nobody noticed how it’s ALL free modeled? Completely free modeled. If you look closer, that house is a recolored version of haunted mansion. 1 month * zenny911 I I LOVE IT ME ZOMBE 5 months * amyiou Builders Club fun yayayyayayayayaya 5 months * zenny911BBBBBBBBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAA 5 months * policeofficer295 fun!! 6 months * Artoro Awesome game! But the couch in the attic can’t get destroyed. 😛 1 year * epicdude5843 2 people are haters 1 year * ChefHayden FUN!!!! XDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXD 1 year * SoulEliminator 1 person (Who disliked) was still inside the house while it was destroyed. xD 1 year
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Giant boulders the size of a house have left a trail of destruction during rockfall in rural Italy. The enormous boulders ripped through a 300-year-old mansion – causing millions of pounds worth of damage.
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Fire guts historic mansion once owned by Polaroid founder
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It’s been two weeks since this lavish seaside Mansion was beaten, smashed and burnt by angry mobs. Neighbours around the home say it was occupied by a nephew of former president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali. Every day, several Tunisians can be seen at the home going through debris and taking pieces of the home, Sami Soukah says, “They stole the people’s money. We are not sorry that this happened.” Another angry Tunisian described the home as an “illegal building” built on “illegal land.” Today, the Mansion is just a shell with an infinity pool filled with debris, wide screen TV’s smashed, furniture charred, 30 Foot Floor to Ceiling Windows completely shattered and the smell of fire is strongly present. There is also a large amount of graffiti spread throughout the home including “The Rich got Richer. The Poor got Poorer” which can be seen on a wall in a marble tiled bedroom, which once had a jacuzzi. Another wrote “You killed the people, Ben Ali,” in the hallway overlooking the landscaped gardens which includes tropical plants and fountains. Many of the onlookers had never known how lavishly Ben Ali’s family lived, so when the Mansion was ransacked the people were shocked.
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The film’s crew and designers spent months building the replica building in the middle of the English countryside to create the perfect mansion worthy of a secret agent. But in true action film style, nothing ever stays standing or intact for too long. And last night, James Bond’s countryside lodge in Skyfall was destroyed in a huge explosion as more scenes were filmed for the upcoming 007 film. The purpose-built mansion, made from plywood and plaster. Even though the house and the set were razed to the ground last night, Javier Bardem, who plays the movie’s villain, was asked not to light up in case he accidentally started a fire too early. ‘Javier loves his cigarettes and is always smoking on set to pass the time. The Skyfall lodge has been built in a field with some pretty dry grass, though. It wouldn’t take much for one of his butts to catch alight. They’ve had word with him and he keeps well away now when on a smoke break.’
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$125M mega-mansion from Succession destroyed in LA fires: ‘The owner is 29 years old in 2025, bought the property in 2021. He used it to film shoots, and it was vacant and up for rent at $450,000/month when it burned. He never lived there! Plus, he bought it for $83 million and it never sold. Not sure why outlets are valuing it at $125 million just because he listed it. This was not a home. It was a real estate investment vehicle. Insurers and potential renters may be devastated; I just can’t be.’
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These pictures are pictures of Steve Jobs’ mansion, which is now demolished. Jackling House was designed by the famed architect George Washington Smith, who was, among other things, credited with the Spanish-Colonial Revival style in the United States. Smith designed the home for Jackling, a metallurgist who went on to become an executive at the Utah Copper Company. Jobs lived in the mansion for ten years, and then rented it out until 2000, when he stopped maintaining the building. Despite a bitter battle with Uphold Our Heritage, who held the property out as a historic landmark, Jobs was eventually granted permission to bulldoze Jackling House, which he did last February.
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The Batcave is history: A fire gutted the California mansion that served as the home of Bruce Wayne, aka Batman, in the 1960s TV series. “It was a fully engulfed inferno, for lack of a better term,” Lisa Derderian, a spokeswoman for the Pasadena Fire Department. said of the fire last night. The Tudor-style home on South San Rafael Avenue was 1440 sq m and sat on 2ha of land. It was being remodelled by the owners, Derderian said. The home also was used for filming other TV shows and films, including 1991’s Dead Again, which starred Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh.
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How Kanye West Ruined an Architectural Treasure
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Most people would be beside themselves if their home and prized possessions were destroyed in a natural disaster. But despite being ‘numb’ and ‘in shock’, former Skid Row singer Sebastian Bach tried to look on the bright side after his New Jersey mansion was destroyed by flooding caused by Hurricane Irene. Writing on Facebook , the metal singer said: ‘I have been holding on to my house. I just could not let go of the only home I had ever known. Well, God has other plans for me it seems. He has made His decision for me. My home has been taken away by an “Act Of God”. I just think He is giving me a much needed push, is all. New Jersey, thank you all so much for 25 years of rock n’ roll.’
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Official cause of $10 million Middlebury Mansion fire remains a mystery, but officials believe spontaneous combustion is the likely reason.
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Ever wonder what it be like to skate inside a multi-million dollar mansion on the beach?! Well OC riders Dave Bachinsky, Jordan Hoffart, Greg Lutzka and friend Shuriken Shannon did! Watch them turn this house into their personal skatepark.
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The Luthor Mansion was the main estate of the Luthor family. It was Lex Luthor’s primary residence after he moved to Smallville in October 2001. A locked room on the third story in the east wing of the mansion housed Lex’s “obsession”: computer screens with a rotating CGI image of the octagonal key, wall paintings and murals from the Kawatche caves, Roger Nixon’s computer simulation of Lex’s porsche hitting Clark Kent on Loeb Bridge, an enlarged photograph of Clark’s face, a family photograph of the Kent family, an enlarged copy of Clark’s family tree that he transliterated with Kryptonian symbols, a large meteor fragment containing green and red kryptonite and a glass-encased carcass of a Kryptonian parasite extracted from the Katwatche caves. After Lex went missing in mid 2008, he selected Tess Mercer as his caretaker CEO to watch over his estate until he returned, but when she found out his true intentions, she declared him dead. After Lex died, Tess Mercer controlled the Luthor Mansion. She was temporarily held captive in the mansion by Major Zod and his army. Later, Lionel came from Earth-2 using a mirror box, and took over the mansion. The mansion was destroyed by a fire caused by Alexander.
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‘I just learned yesterday that the home in Toronto known as “Toronto’s Weirdest House” was demolished within the last few days. The home, which was located at 110 Maybourne Ave. in Toronto was a 1970s bungalow that was reimagined over the years by its longtime owner, Max Heiduczek, and included interiors as eccentric as its eye-catching exterior, with split levels, bright red and green carpeting, and an indoor pool, as well as archways, wallpaper and murals galore.’
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How to destroy Luigi’s Mansion
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In its Gilded Age heyday, it was the scene of lavish parties attended by the likes of Winston Churchill, the Marx Brothers and F. Scott Fitzgerald. But now Lands End, the grand colonial mansion said to be the inspiration for Daisy Buchanan’s house in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, is set to be torn down – because no one will buy it. The 1902 property, set in 13 acres on the tip of Sands Point, Long Island, is slowly crumbling and costs $4,500 each day to maintain. David Brodsky, who bought the estate with his father Bert in 2004, has had the dilapidated mansion on and off the market for several years, but has never found a buyer for it. Now he plans to demolish the house, valued at $30million, to make way for Sands Point Village, a community of five custom-made homes which will cost $10million each.
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The grim search has begun of the country mansion where the bodies of a Conservative MP and his wife are believed to be after fire swept their home. Michael Colvin, 67, and his wife Nichola, 62, are believed to lie somewhere in the gutted remains of the west wing of Tangley House, near Andover in Hampshire. Conservative party leader William Hague paid tribute to both Mr Colvin and his 62-year-old wife, praising the countryside-loving MP as a “true Tory”.
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The National Trust Clandon Park has been destroyed by a devastating explosion whose origin remains a mystery despite having been studied by several international teams of investigators. Including the Marble Hall with its original stucco ceilings and marble fireplaces. “If I wasn’t a betting man,” United States special disaster investigator Henry Vaxen, “I would almost venture to guess that the building committed suicide rather violently. It seems to have exploded with immense force for no reason whatsoever.” Built in 1720 for Lord Onslow by a Venetian designer. It was the most complete example of a Palladian mansion and it’s loss is a loss for us all.
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Just how powerful were the tornadoes that tore through Nebraska last week? Based on a newly released video, powerful enough to pull a 2 million dollar mansion from the ground and toss it in the air.
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At just £4, it was a cheap and easy way of keeping her paperwork in order. But the three-inch glass weight proved an expensive investment after it caused a freak fire which left Martin and Ruth Ball’s £1million home in ruins. Fire investigators believe the paperweight concentrated the sun’s rays on to a pile of books and set them alight when it was left in the first floor conservatory during last month’s mini-heatwave. The resulting blaze caused an estimated £300,000 of damage, destroying the roof of the house which collapsed through to a swimming pool on the ground floor.
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‘Actor Chris Pratt has drawn ire from architecture aficionados after news broke that the actor and his wife, Katherine Schwarzenegger, had razed a historic, mid-century modern home to make way for a sprawling 15,000-sq-ft mansion. Last year, the couple purchased the 1950 Zimmerman house, designed by the architect Craig Ellwood, in Los Angeles’s Brentwood neighborhood for $12.5m. The residence, with landscaping by Garrett Eckbo – who has been described as the pioneer of modern landscaping – had previously been featured in Progressive Architecture magazine. The single-story home and its grounds have since been cleared and in its place will be a massive home in the modern farmhouse style that has come to dominate US suburbs.’
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Tony Stark’s Malibu Mansion was a place where Tony Stark lived in California. The whole house was wired through J.A.R.V.I.S.. It was destroyed during a helicopter attack initiated by the Mandarin. Sometime after the Chitauri invasion of New York, a haunted Tony Stark became a recluse in his mansion workshop and obsessively began building several Iron Man suits. When Tony made a statement on television to The Mandarin issuing a challenge to confront him in person at his home, The Mandarin’s forces responded with lethal action by attacking Stark in his home, destroying the mansion and submerging it into the ocean below.
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Aerial shots show luxury of Beijing roof-top mountain villa as demolition of the mansion begins The elaborate rooftop mountain mansion in Beijing has been filmed from above, showing the big villa, the pool and impressive rock garden as it is announced it must be destroyed. The 8,610-square foot structure, built illegally, has been ordered to be demolished and must be removed within 15 days. As the video of the impressive villa went viral, the owner, a professor Zhang Biqing, began to take his home apart.
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Ellaville was a boom town of the 1800’s where approximately 1000 people lived at one time. The location was at the merging of the Withlacoochee and Suwannee rivers. George Drew and Louis Bucki had a number of business’s here including logging, sawmill, turpentine, and railroad car building. On May 19, 1895 two negro men, John Brooks and Samuel Echols were lynched in Ellaville. George Drew became the first Governor of Florida after the Reconstruction. His mansion was 1/2 mile northwest of the Ellaville site. Built in the 1860’s the two story mansion was surrounded by formal gardens. The mansion was destroyed by fire in 1970. The ruins are still there.
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“They took the idols and smashed them, the Fairbankses, the Gilberts, the Valentinos”! Well they smashed houses too! This was Norma Desmond’s mansion in Sunset Boulevard. Its address was 641 S. Irving Blvd. and was looking towards the NW corner of Wilshire/Irving Blvd. It was demolished in 1957.
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p.s. Hey. ** jay, Hi. If only someone had filmed when I had my head cleaved open with an axe when I was 11, I’d share it with you. I was in a daze at the time, but I suspect the blood spurts were pretty wild. When I first found the Kresnik play there was a video of it, but someone took it down, alas. It is a bit of a war at the top between ‘Benny’s Video’ and ‘White Ribbon’, it’s true. It wouldn’t have been too hard for your weekend to win the contest, and I hope it did. ** Carsten, Amen to that. I have very burnable skin. I was twice hospitalised with very bad sunburn when I was a teen, so I’m pretty cautious. And hats look weird on me. My head’s too big. I like Marseille. It’s the least French French city, visually. It’s pretty rough and worn down. Buildings spontaneously collapse there rather frequently. I wouldn’t want to live there, but it’s an interesting visit for sure. ** tomk, My pleasure, yay. I’ve only seen Banyan trees in Hawaii where they’re reasonably common, and, yes, they’re wild. Good, you’ll have company for the readings. That should help with the nerves. Is the DC site still down? Grr. The person who does it told me it would be back online months ago. I’ll go badger him. I guess jay found the interview for you if you didn’t see the reply comment. ** Bill, Cool, thanks! No, I don’t know Kresnik’s work at all. I’ll ask Gisele. My ideas are still pretty vague, but, yeah, it’d be interesting to confer about that. The meaning killing is kind of the big problem for me. I’m old fashioned or something enough to want meaning. Or, well, only in things I make myself. I hope the extension acquiesces to you in time. But, if not, you’ll know what to do. ** Tyler Ookami, Very true, I think, re: prog rock vs. math rock. I could get into math rock recordings, but whenever I saw Tortoise, etc. live it always just seemed uptight wanky. Amazing about that Warhol/Morrissey dump. I just peeked, and there are things I thought I would never get to see. Thank you! Everyone, Via Tyler Ookami: ‘Someone has put a ton of Warhol/Morrissey material in a big folder on Archive: here, including Lonesome Cowboys, though the image quality is not great (it seems to be ripped from video), though also I suppose it is better than not having it at all. It’s very scattershot in terms of what looks optimal, though Soap Opera and Chelsea Girls look far better than I have seen elsewhere! Very interesting that a majorly influential filmography is inching towards being available after, in some cases, not being seen for half a century.’ Incredible score! Thanks again!!! ** Misanthrope, David, David, David. Once we finally get a gig for ‘Room Temperature’ in NYC, I’ll go for that. I supposedly am going to do a reading there at the beginning of December, so maybe then if nothing else. ** julian, Blood lives too briefly once plucked, like avocados. I think the far right conspiracy theories flying all over the place are without pleasure or interest whatsoever personally. Give me ‘Paul is Dead’ over that any day. Okay, the rich NYC folks is a drawback in theory, yeah, but still. ** horatio, What kind of theater did you used to do, and why did you stop? Thanks. And for reading ‘Guide’. Yes, that title was a disguise of the actual title. I can’t remember why I did that though. There’s a lot of disguising in the novel, as you saw, so I guess it was just part and parcel of that. Yeah, of course, about after the event or whenever. Thank you! It’ll be really nice to meet you. I’ve been fine, just the usual work and stuff. You? ** Steve, Hi. Yes, that’s an actual body (the artist’s) in FINISH’IT. I hope your doctor gives you what you need today. New show! Everyone, Here’s Steve: ‘My latest “Radio Not Radio” show is now up on Mixcloud: here. This one features several artists I learned about from your Gig Day, among many others: Ensemble Nist-Nah, Gnaw, Gila, Pharaoh Overload, Major Stars, Vesta SA, Halima, Deekpaz, Nadeem Din-Gabisi, Amaarae, Asa Bantan, Purity Ring, Tropical Fuck Storm, Black Eyes, Guerrilla Toss, Eye Ball, Witch Club Satan, Ritual Mass, Abhorrent Expanse, Nina Nicolaiwesky, Ethel Cain, Whitney Johnson/Lia Kohl/Macie Stewart, Nina Garcia, Harlem River Drive, Chicago Underground Duo and DJ Narciso.’ ** _Black_Acrylic, Nice: the Simons/Ruby collab. ** Dominik, Hi!!! Cool. The film is pretty much the Sword of Damocles right now, but in a mostly good way. Strange about the death of the smell. But dogs know things we don’t, so that’s spooky. I think My Chemical Romance is on tour, no? Coming near you, I hope? Love being gifted with a universal mansion fire damage insurance policy, G. ** HaRpEr //, It’s a little joy, that Sean DeLear book. Yes, that book series that David’s and Nayland’s/my books were part of was a fantastic series. Lots of excellent things. The books were gorgeous. I wish they’d reprint them. The Warhol/Morrissey dump is amazing, yeah. To be able to see ‘Batman Dracula’ even in shitty shape is remarkable. Really good luck with the move. I hate moving so much, but then it’s over, and then you forget. ** Steeqhen, Yeah, that definitely qualifies as a tough weekend. So sorry, man. Concerts can work miracles if you want them to. Thanks a lot about ‘PGL’. And the things you saw in it. Much appreciated. I hope the week erases the weekend. ** Darbzzzzz, Howdy. Kind of intense about the cutting and the timing with the post. That might have made me ‘see’ it more than I normally would have or something. Old Navy, okay. I wasn’t sure if that place still exists ‘cos I’m here where it never existed. Or maybe it did at some point, I don’t know. That’s good. Islands: Yes, the Hawaiian islands, and … Iceland, Catalina (off the coast of LA), a few in Japan, … that might be all. I’m sort of over real sex. Too much trouble. I did see that Reznor thing. It’s hilariously dreadful, haha. Have a good to great week, okay? ** Nicholas., Oh, I was overly judgey about vaping. Whatever works. It just doesn’t look very … suave. You’re going to Fire Island. I always stayed at friends’ little houses there. Fire Island and I were like oil and water, so I don’t have any tips. All my tips would be to avoid the things that you’re going to do there and find exciting. So I’m useless. I haven’t had a treat lately. I’ll try to find one today though. ** Corey, That could make you a friend or two. Excellent about the event success, etc.! I haven’t read Hart Crane since I was assigned to read his stuff in high school. I have no memory of his work at all. It could be great. I feel like nobody in the States at least read him anymore. Except maybe in high school? But I don’t know. ** ellie, Hi, ellie! How good to see you. I’m good enough, how are you? Jeanne Dunning, yay! Thank you! Everyone, ellie made a fine add to the Bloody weekend, a work by the excellent artist Jeanne Dunning, and it’s here. Take care, pal. ** Okay. And today you get the sequel to ‘Ex-Mansions’ whether you like it or not, haha. See you tomorrow.
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