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Inside an Herbalife Heir’s Fight for the Billion-Dollar Mountain of Beverly Hills

Inside an Herbalife Heir’s Fight for the Billion-Dollar Mountain of Beverly Hills

High above the lights of Los Angeles stands the Mountain, impervious to the Hollywood power players and business tycoons plotting and scheming below. Many have coveted its 157 acres, but the Mountain has remained tantalizingly out of reach. Spanning a surface area bigger than 100 football fields, this grassy, lush mountaintop has been the prize—once valued at $1 billion—of Middle Eastern royals, A-list stars, and mega-moguls. Rihanna, Salma Hayek, James Cameron, Elon Musk, and others have made pilgrimages to the Mountain, for roving Oscar parties and charity balls. Yet the only creatures to make the Mountain their home are the… Read Full Article