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Good fences make good neighbors but big trees are a deal-breaker. The next-door neighbor of celebrity heart surgeon Mehmet Oz is suing the affable TV talk-show doc for planting three 46-foot cedars that ruin the lawyer’s stunning view of Manhattan. Lawsuit: Dr Oz, pictured with his wife Lisa, is being sued by his neighbour. The Post spoke with Dr. Oz’s neighbors in New Jersey , Angelo and Hana Bisceglie, who claim “ego, arrogance and spite” led Oz to take down bamboo trees and replace them with bigger, fuller, 46-foot cedars that now obscure the couple’s Manhattan view. Oz and his wife, Lisa, declined comment. “I’m very angry.” Somehow, we get the feeling Dr. Oz really doesn’t give a shit. “What a joke,” he said. ‘They did not just block our view – they knocked down the value of our house’, complained Mr Bisceglie’s make-up artist wife Hana. “I opened my heart to Dr. Oz,” he said.

“She wanted the windows to New York and the door to New Jersey,” Hana told their realtor. “I walked out and I saw the Empire State Building, and I said, ‘I want this house.’ And now we don’t have it.” The lawsuit also names the borough of Cliffside Park and zoning officials as plaintiffs, saying they failed to enforce zoning ordinances including one that limits fences to 4 feet.

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December 5, 2010 at 3:13 am by jamesdean
Category: Showbiz News
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