Real Estate Developer Plasters 42-Foot Tall Photo of New Wife on Building After Finalizing Divorce

Harry Macklowe is a top contender for pettiest man of 2019.

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What's the pettiest thing you've ever seen someone do? No matter what it is, it can't top this. A real estate developer in New York just snatched the city's most-petty crown right off of 50 Cent's head by taunting his ex-wife with a 42-foot-tall picture of his new one. 

Harry Macklowe, 81, is a real estate developer who just happens to own one of the tallest residential buildings in the Western Hemisphere. So, when he finalized his 14-week divorce trial against his former wife of 50 years, Linda, he used the face of the building to celebrate. In a particularly nasty twist of the knife, the building was supposed to house Linda's apartment, though she was able to get out of her contract in their divorce.

He plastered a photo of himself and his new wife Patricia Landeau in what he called a "proclamation of love." But it doesn't take much digging to see the spirit underneath. The photos are both massively mean and just plain massive.

What’s 42 Feet Tall and Follows a Messy Divorce? Harry Macklowe’s ‘Proclamation of Love’ - New York Times https://t.co/Z2PuJEjEeo pic.twitter.com/DIKXkpqsRv

— Steven Benke (@stevebenke) March 10, 2019

“Since I wasn’t getting married during the summer in the Hamptons,” Macklowe told the New York Times. “I wasn’t able to hire an airplane with a banner to go up and down the shoreline. I thought: ‘I own a building. Why don’t I just hang a banner from my own building?’”

Macklowe has yet to decide when he will remove the photos. 

“My wife looks gorgeous, and I love the picture of me,” he said.

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