Article: The Splashiest Shower Curtain; No Silver Lining in Ousted CEO's $6,000 Extravagance

As a symbol of how the other half has been living, especially on other people's money, a $6,000 shower curtain is almost priceless.

Just such an item tops the list of personal extravagances billed to Tyco International by its former chieftain L. Dennis Kozlowski, who was indicted last month on charges of megafraud. Tyco has toted up more than $20 million in bills for art, antiques and furnishings alone and is suing to get its money back.

With or without a plastic liner, the princely shower curtain suggests mildew at the top.

"Vulgar," pronounced Albert Hadley, dean of American interior designers. "The shower curtain is a functional object in a 21st- century situation."

Hadley, who decorated ...

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