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Ed Hardy CEO Can’t Sell His House, Blames it on “Maps of the Stars” Seller


There are lots of things to blame when you can’t sell your home: bad location, outdated kitchen, that raccoon infestation… you get the idea. But when you’re a mogul, you get to take the blame game to new heights — which is exactly what Ed Hardy CEO Hubert Guez is doing.

Guez, whom you can blame for nearly all of Jon Gosselin’s eyeball-singeing wardrobe, apparently put his Holmby Hills home on the market for $38 million in 2008, according to Curbed. And then things started to get messy.

First, Guez took the home off the market (because no one wanted it). Then, he decided to rent the house to Michael Jackson, because, hey — what could possibly go wrong? Then the King of Pop died in the house under sad, terrible circumstances, which really didn’t do much to help the mansion’s rep. And after another sales effort, this time at the staggeringly lower price of $28.995 million (well, staggeringly lower compared to $38 million), Guez took the house off the market in July and started to look for someone to yell at.

And that person, Curbed reported, was map-of-the-stars-selling entrepreneur Linda Welton. Her sin? Well, presumably, she helped direct people to the site of Jackson’s passing. And this created a traffic problem, which, according Guez, is the whole reason no one is buying his house.

Frankly, we’re glad Guez is finally stepping up to his mighty oppressors — those rich, map-selling fat cats better learn a lesson, am I right?

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  • Mymove1

    HI, I’M THE ONE THEY LASHED OUT AT. GREAT ARTICLE. WHEN MICHAEL WAS MURDERED IN THAT HOUSE WE WERE GIVING AWAY MAPS, FOR THEM TO HAVE THE ENCINO HOME TO PAY THEIR RESPECTS. MICHAEL WAS WAVING TO US, WE HAD A BLAST WITH MICHAEL HERE. MICHAEL BOUGHT 2 MAPS 27 YEARS AGO FROM MY MOMS BOYFRIEND AND THESE WIERDOS ARE GOING CRAZY. GO TO YOU TUBE: “carolwood and all its crziness” & “carolwood 2 years later” . There’s a lot more to come.

  • Mymove1

    MY GRANDFATHER WESLEY G. LAKE INVENTED THE LEGACY “STAR MAPS” IN 1936. MY MOTHER WON IN THE SUPREME COURT ON ALL 3 MUNICIPAL CODES THEY’RE COMPLAINING ABOUT. ARE CREW HAS BEEN AT THE SAME LOCATION WHEN THEY FELL IN LOVE WITH 100 N. CAROLWOOD. WHEN SHE CHOSE TO RENT TO MICHAEL INSTEAD OF A POLITICIAN: IT BECAME TOUR BUS CENTRAL. AND THE BUSIEST TOURIST ATTRACTION IN THE WORLD. MICHAEL LIVING HERE WAS THE MOST EXCITING TIME SELLING MAPS IN OUR LIVES. ALL THE FANS FOLLOWED MJ TO THE RECORDING STUDIO. WE KNEW ALL THE GUARDS BY NAME AND NOW MZ. HELL ON EARTH BECAME SO MISERABLE SHE’S LASHING OUT AT TOUR BUSES BY HAVING SWAT TEAMS OF COPS PERCHED GIVING WEIGHT CAPACITY TICKETS BETWEEN $1500- $2000 FOR WEIGHT CAPACITY, WHILE ON THE RAMPAGE WHILE TRYING TO DESTROY MJ’S BIRTHDAY, ANNIVERARY OF HIS DEATH AND NOW THE TRIAL, WHERE WERE TRYIN TO KEEP HIS LEGACY GOING STRONG. THAT’S WHAT’S REALLY GOIN ON, TMZ DIDN’T REPORT. ROXANNE GUEZ HAS A HENCHMAN AT THE GATE SHOOING AWAY FANS THAT SPENT A LOTTA MONEY ON AIR FARE TO WHERE HE SITS IN THE GATE SAYING”FORGET ABOUT MICHAEL” or “MICHAEL NEVER LIVED HERE” then WHEN I GET A MAP BUYER HE TAKES A PIX OF MY EVERY CUSTOMER.. EVERY ONE ASKS “SO WHY’S THAT WIERDO TAKIN A PIX OF ME”? OBVIOUSLY ITS A BOGUS LAWSUIT. THANKS MOGULITE!

  • Jadzszuster

    Correct me if I ‘m wrong but isn’t he a friend of Michaels and he was going to open the house once a year on Michaels birthday to yhe public so that they can pay their last rspects to the king of pop.

  • Mymove1

    No,  Whenever fans come from all over the world to decorate the gate with cards and flowers on MJ’s birthday,  Anniversary of his passing… My workers and myself have been letting them know they throw them away and don’t bother to leave them up even for the day.  We let the fans know not to leave them there and suggest them all to please bring them to the Encino home where Katherine & MJ’s children will always appreciate them.   It’s gonna be a mad house over there during the trial and well be there to be nice to Michaels fans and keep his legacy goin proud and strong.  He was such a wonderfully talented man and we all had a lot of fun with him there & will miss him dearly.  He had so much more to give though every one took  from him where it was tragic.  The owners were the last financial vultures in his life.  (Going market value to rent at that time was only $32,000 NOT $100,000)  Ah but they knew it was MJ.  A neighbor said that a lotta people don’t know but the Guezes ket him know if he didn’t represent thier Christian Audigier clothing line, thier home rental wouldn’t take place.  Michael autographed a map 2 days before he got murdered in the house.  Tmz was stupid to say we profited from Michaels death.  The street was blocked off for 1 month & everyone knew from the 911 call just where Michael died with that and google.  Any way these people have gone mad inside that house.

  • Mymove1

    Well yes, I guess you could call it a friendly buisness partnership.  Renting the mansion for $100,000 when market value was only $32,000.  Then a neighbor told me that him agreeing to work with them and using his name to relaunch the Christian Audigier was to be agreed upon prior to renting the home for that additional  $68,000.   Now that Michael died there so did the lease and the dream of him expanding their clothing line to a new demension.  Roxie came out whallin with camera in toe telling tour busses “F__ Michael Jackson”then  ”Your all F____ing done”,   “And You Too”! as she directed her camera and venimous personality on me. & sarcastically yelling to another tour driver with hands on hips “So you wanna know if Michael died here”  Yes, she was the talk of Hollywood among all tour buses.     She saw Michael’s money and what he could do for her financially…Obviously had no clue the magnitude of Michael and now it’s the biggest tourist attraction in the world.  He gave a lot and now people realize like Jackson Family they wish they could have appreciated him more like that when he was alive.  Michael did deserve far more than he got in return for all he did for the world and gave without wanting anything in return.    Michaels probobly turning over in his grave on how Roxanne namely is out to absentmindedly or purposfully destroy Michaels legacy…   Michael’s guards came out and told me “Michael  Really REALLY  Appreciates what your doing so please:  Keep doing what were doing” &  Don’t you stop now”  I said I wouldn’t know how to.   The guards were great with all of us and all the great fans there every day that would follow him to the recording studio for rehersal.  Yes It was an honor and the most exciting and magical time weve ever had selling maps.  A very short lived Thrill with fantastic memories we will always treasure.  

  • Mymove1

    We warn the fans from bringing them to the gate cause Roxanne as insisted they are thrown in the trash on site.  So these warm well wishing fans come and if we see they have flowers or cards we direct them to the Jackson Encino home where they will be appreciated.  They just ring the buzzard and a guard is  there that will come take them in to Katherine and the kids. :)

  • Mymove1

    Excellent write up

  • Mymove1

    MORE TO COME

  • Dikds

    There is a restaining order against The Star Map Lady that she must stay at least 300 yards from the property. 

  • Dikds

    Believe me, the rest of us neighbors want Linda Welton to take her star maps to a different locations before someone gets injured or worse.

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