You are viewing a read-only archive of the Blogs.Harvard network. Learn more.

Mehran Karimi Nasseri

Finally granted a residency permit in 1999, and now wealthy enough to support himself on the outside, Nasseri has yet to leave Paris National Airport.

As of the summer of 2004, Nasseri is still living in the airport. He does not lack for money — Dreamworks paid him a rumored $250,000 for the rights to his story.

Of course he has no bank accounts, so the checks are being held by Christian Bourguet, the famous lawyer who took on his case a decade ago.

As for the plastic red bench, which has served as his de facto home for the last 15 years and must by now be a collector’s item, he says, “I’ll take it to DreamWorks… and send it by FedEx.” [NYT]

3 Comments

  1. The Other

    August 15, 2004 @ 11:39 pm

    1

    He didn’t stay there because he needed a permit to stay. He stayed there because he hated his Iranian background. Read this:
    http://the-labyrinth.blogspot.com/2004/06/sir-alfred-iranian-zelig.html

  2. Anonymous

    November 3, 2004 @ 7:01 pm

  3. Anonymous

    November 10, 2004 @ 1:46 am

Log in