Where does Art Van live now and what did he pay? 2-12-15
The loyal reader will recall that I used to be a bodyguard for a Detroit billionaire. Bodyguard rather glamorizes what I did. I drove Art around when he was drunk, listened to him question his mistresses feelings for him, listened to his mistress question his feelings for her, acted as the ships captain for his Detroit yacht, lied to his family about his whereabouts (Let's take a deep breath here) drove his family on special occasions in limos I procured, drove Art and his business and religious associates, took the mistress to clandestine meetings at Detroit and Birmingham and Dearborn area hotels, (another deep breath) ate dinner with Art or the mistress or Art and the mistress, flew on the corporate jet to Boca Raton, drove them around Boca and Lauderdale, and watched them play a LOT of tennis. Of course there was the occasional secret rendezvous at the Grosse Pointe Mansion when the wife wasn't home. I'm not proud of it but my job entailed sneaking the mistress in. This is the same mansion where one of Art's employees once tried to kill him and the wife. Art also made many bad decisions regarding revisiting some of his old Detroit hangouts (i.e. bars) so I did perform legitimate and frequent bodyguard functions. For this reason I always carried a large handgun and a smaller one as a backup. Did Art sell the mansion because of bad memories? Of course not. He simply did not live there anymore and had not for many years. His wife stayed on but moved out some time ago as well. Art had it built for roughly 11.9 million dollars. He owned it for about 16 years. He sold it for 3.75 million. Some simple math reveals that he lost about a half million a year for every year that he owned it. Ouch. To be continued... To go back to home page click here.