Ex-Model Ordered to Vacate Condo of Former Boyfriend
A former model who refused to vacate her ex-boyfriend’s $2.5-million condominium in a plush hotel was just a guest of the millionaire and must move out, a jury decided Tuesday.
A Housing Court jury voted, 10 to 2, in finding that Catherine de Castelbajac is a licensee, not a tenant, in the condominium owned by yachtsman William Koch and is not entitled to the usual tenants’ protections.
Housing Court decisions need not be unanimous. Koch has given De Castelbajac 30 days to move out of his condominium at the Four Seasons Hotel.
“The verdict shows the people of Boston have common sense,” Koch said, “that women cannot enrich themselves at someone else’s expense.”
Koch, 55, and De Castelbajac, 43, met through friends at his Cape Cod mansion in 1992. De Castelbajac, a former model, now lives largely on $80,000 a year in alimony from her ex-husband, fashion designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac. In the 1994 divorce settlement, he also gave her $100,000 and a $2-million art collection.
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