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Article: Why I'm sharingwithLara; Top restaurateur Jimmy Lahoud has created an erotic palace - but could you live with it?
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- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 14, 2006
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Byline: MARK HUGHES-MORGAN
If tasteful restraint is what you're after, then Jimmy Lahoud's North London mansion is not for you; the fifty-something business partner of tempestuous super-chef-turned-businessman Marco Pierre White does not do understated decor at his six-bedroom home in Brondesbury.
There are acres of marble, animal skins everywhere and nudes and erotic art on the walls. A cardboard cut-out of a punk rocker stands guard over the conservatory - next to a human-size statue of the pneumatic video game heroine Lara Croft. But Lahoud is nevertheless hoping to attract a tenant who will pay [pounds sterling]6,000 a week.
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