Boris brings the house down

Daily Mail13 April 2012

Boris Becker has agreed to tear down half his luxury villa in Majorca after a two-year wrangle with local planning chiefs.

The three-times Wimbledon champion has also been hit with a £145,000 fine for flouting the island's tough building regulations after constructing a £500,000 extension to his home in Arta without approval.

Becker, 37, was originally fined £285,000 last year but the penalty was halved on appeal after he said he would comply with an order for demolition workers to move in.

The multi-millionaire German sports star bought the main building - a 200-yearold stone farmhouse - in 1997 for £250,000.

A local property developer said yesterday: 'The Majorcans are very touchy about what's done to their old houses and they've made an example of Boris.'

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