Airbnb ‘serial squatter’ seen inside landlord’s Brentwood mansion

Grim-faced and filming on her iPhone, that is ‘serial squatter’ Elizabeth Hirschhorn pictured contained in the Brentwood Airbnb the place she has been dwelling for 18 months rent-free for the primary time. Footage of the nightmare tenant, which was solely obtained by DailyMail.com, was taken shortly after her authentic six-month tenancy ended – and earlier than she and landlord Sascha Jovanovic turned embroiled in a prolonged authorized struggle wherein she is demanding $100,000 to go away.

Jovanovic claims Harvard graduate Hirschhorn, 55, owes him $60,000 in unpaid hire for the 552 days she has lived in his $3.5million dwelling with out paying. She says she isn’t required to cough up the cash as a result of he had did not get the proper allow for the bathe contained in the guesthouse. She has additionally defied three eviction notices and has turned down repeated gives from Jovanovic, 61, to place her up in a lodge till she finds one other place to stay. DailyMail.com beforehand revealed she had been embroiled in an identical scenario with a rental in Oakland, California.

She finally moved out with a money settlement in hand, weeks earlier than transferring into Jovanovic’s dwelling. Now DailyMail.com can reveal her historical past of litigation goes again greater than 20 years and contains one other battle with a landlord that led to a settlement and an unsuccessful try to sue a literary agent over an unpublished manuscript in 2010. In the meantime, Jovanovic has spoken solely to DailyMail.com concerning the ordeal and revealed he has felt obliged to maneuver his teenage youngsters out of his Brentwood mansion in worry of retaliation by Hirschhorn.

He mentioned: ‘I do not know what this [high profile] goes to do to an individual who’s type of locked up in my home and never wanting to come back out, who has been extraordinarily secretive for the final two years. ‘What’s her transfer going to be? I moved the youngsters out already as a result of I do not need the younger youngsters to be probably uncovered to any type of adversity like this.’ DailyMail.com’s makes an attempt to achieve Hirschhorn have proved unsuccessful. Final week, Jovanovic and his lawyer Sebastian Rucci filed a movement asking for a decide to take a contemporary have a look at the case in gentle of our revelations – arguing that the Oakland case confirmed she is a ‘serial squatter’.

However Hirschhorn’s legal professional, Amanda Seward, hit again Thursday in her personal written response, saying Rucci’s movement, ‘goes towards all the pieces the American justice system stands for.’ And Seward lashed out at Hirschhorn being dubbed a ‘skilled squatter’ – saying it is ‘abhorrent and inadmissible rumour, designed to prejudice the courtroom towards the defendant.’ Seward requested Decide George Chook to disclaim Rucci’s movement, including: ‘Nobody argues that (Jovanovic) can not evict the defendant. It’s simply that he has not finished it in the suitable approach. ‘(Jovanovic) rented an unlawful unit and refused to observe the principles for Los Angeles.’ The 2 sides are as a consequence of return to courtroom in Santa Monica on Monday for a contemporary listening to within the case and probably a call on whether or not Jovanovic can evict his undesirable tenant after practically two years.

If Hirschhorn loses, it should quantity to a uncommon authorized reverse for the failed screenwriter whose earlier authorized wins in tenancy disputes embody the Oakland case and, DailyMail.com can now reveal, a special case in Venice, California, that noticed her sue over what she claimed was a defective range. Cinematographer Jim Denault, whose resume contains work on the smash hit sequence Yellowstone, and who has a number of Emmy nominations, instructed DailyMail.com he had sublet his studio in Venice Seaside to Hirschhorn in 2002. Regardless of being advisable to him by a pal of a pal for a brief keep whereas he was out of city for work, Hirschhorn turned what ought to have been a easy rental association right into a nightmare by suing his landlord Peter Trias over what she claimed was ‘chemical publicity’ from the fuel range.

He mentioned: ‘It was a type of issues the place it appeared like a good suggestion on the time. All dangerous issues find yourself seeming like a good suggestion on the time. ‘I did not have any downside serving to her out and she or he stayed there for a month or two, however whereas I used to be in New York she sued my landlord over some form of poisonous publicity she mentioned was coming from the fuel range – there had by no means been any downside with it earlier than.’ Denault mentioned Trias, who he described because the ‘nicest man ever’, has since died however endured a traumatic scenario as a consequence of Hirschhorn’s lawsuit and he finally paid her off utilizing money from an insurance coverage supplier. Denault added: ‘I sympathize with Sascha as a result of it was a type of issues the place I talked to her about it afterwards and she or he mentioned, ‘oh, it was horrible. I am very delicate to all the pieces’. ‘And I used to be like, I have been dwelling in that place. There’s nothing unsuitable with it. I assume my level is that is one thing she’s been doing for a minimum of 20 years.’

Together with a historical past of tenancy disputes, Hirschhorn has additionally left a path of authorized circumstances in her wake, together with a struggle with AMEX over a $19,000 bank card invoice that was settled final yr and a 2019 case the place she tried to sue an LA couple over a automotive accident that occurred two years earlier. DailyMail.com has subsequently discovered yet one more case, filed in Could 2010, that noticed her try to sue a movement image literary agent named Joanne Freeman after exhibiting her ‘a 76-page excerpt’ from a novel she was writing on the time. In line with the grievance, Freeman then used the manuscript as the idea for a TV pilot later bought to ABC and described her conduct as ‘malicious, fraudulent and oppressive’. The case was dismissed 4 months after Hirschhorn filed it. Hirschhorn is at present nonetheless holed up inside Jovanovic’s guesthouse and has fought his makes an attempt to evict her by submitting cross-complaints towards him – together with an allegation that he requested her to remain in his home with him. Jovanovic says the supply was made so he may entry the property to wash a moldy bathe and got here after she had turned down the supply of a lodge.

She behaved equally in her courtroom battle over the Oakland dwelling, submitting a cross grievance that accused landlords Brian and Gordon Bishop of releasing an unspecified substance into the property, refusing to wash it regardless of her allergy symptoms, and of trying to power her out whereas Alameda County was beneath a Covid-19 lockdown. For Jovanovic, the top of the authorized struggle and Hirschhorn’s removing from his dwelling can not come quickly sufficient. He instructed DailyMail.com: ‘Proper now I really feel like that I am not capable of stay in my home. I wish to however it would not really feel like my dwelling anymore.’ Jovanovic added: ‘It is insane that she has been capable of manipulate the system a number of instances, and that clever folks, like a decide in Santa Monica and her attorneys, are falling for this crap.’ Learn the complete story: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/information/article-12628579/Airbnb-serial-squatter-Elizabeth-Hirschhorn-seen-inside.html?ito=msngallery

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