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Westgate Timeshare Mogul Sues Sundance Film Festival

Posted by The Timeshare Broker on Sunday, 15 January 2012 in Timeshare Resorts

What do major timeshare mogul, David Siegel, and independent film festival Sundance have in common? One massive lawsuit, that's what.

Reuters reports that David Siegel, owner of Westgate Resorts, has filed a $75,000 lawsuit against filmmaker Lauren Greenfield and against Sundance Film Festival for defamation of character over a film (enttiled the "Queen of Versailles") depicting Siegel's timeshare business as faltering.

Promoted as a "rags-to-riches-to-rags" story that centers on the "innate virtues and flaws of the American Dream," the film depicts a filmmaker's proposal (in 2007) to document his construction of Siegel's opulent 90,000-square-foot mansion (what was to be the nation's largest family home) that today remains unfinished and up for sale (going for a clean $75 million) in 2010.

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