Brewers Owner Settles Bizarre $2 Million Beach Dispute

If you're a Chicago Cubs fan, you probably don't spend much time thinking about the Milwaukee Brewers' owner, but Mark Attanasio has found himself at the center of a pretty unusual controversy far from the baseball diamond.

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Milwaukee Brewers Owner Accused of Stealing Sand

For more than 20 years, Mark Attanasio has been the Chairman and Principal Owner of the Milwaukee Brewers.

Attanasio is a billionaire businessman who has apparently been involved in a very expensive California beach controversy that began in 2024 involving something I never expected to be writing about in connection with baseball: sand.

A Yahoo article says Attanasio's construction operation was accused of using heavy equipment to remove sand, rocks and boulders from Malibu's Broad Beach and move the material onto his oceanfront property while working on a seawall.

A neighbor filed a lawsuit accusing Attanasio's company of essentially treating a public beach like a personal sandbox, and that's when the California Coastal Commission got involved.

The Yahoo article says:

According to the commission, the work was done without permits, damaged environmentally sensitive areas, and partially interfered with public access along the beach.

Now, two years later, a lawsuit settlement has finally been reached, and it's... interesting.

According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

As part of the settlement, Attanasio will donate an undeveloped $2 million beachfront property in Malibu and restore the area the company he hired, JILK Heavy Construction, improperly excavated.

So, apparently, if you're a billionaire who accidentally gets into a fight over beach sand, the solution is to give everybody a beach.

What do you think Cubs fans would get if he accidentally stole some of the Wrigley ivy?

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