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SYDNEY : Hollywood actress Nicole Kidman is on a roll with offending people lately.
Last week, she was condemned by Aboriginal leaders for playing the didgeridoo - an instrument which woman are forbidden to play - on a German talk show.
This time, Kidman is embroiled in a yacht row with her former neighbours.
The star has reportedly sold her Sydney apartment in the prestigious Pier 6/7 in Walsh Bay but contrary to regulations, her A$4.5 million yacht, Hokulani, still sits outside the building.
Residents have complained that the luxury boat is blocking their view and have accused the committee that runs the complex of favouritism towards the actress.
Strict bylaws regulate life at Pier 6/7 which contains some of the city’s most expensive homes. The rules specify, among other things, where washing may be hung, whether pot plants on balconies are allowed and whether gulls may be fed.
A spokesman for Kidman told the Sydney Morning Herald that Hokulani had been left at the marina because she had considered buying another apartment in the same block, which has yet to happen.
The spokesman added that the boat would be moved next week and denied that Kidman was “trying to take advantage of the situation”.
“The (governing committee) would never do anything just because it’s her,” he said.
An advisor to the owners’ corporation, Wally Paterson agreed that the yacht’s continuing presence was a breach of bylaws but told the paper he was "absolutely adamant everyone gets treated equally no matter who or what they are".
Kidman, 41, now owns a waterside mansion in nearby Elizabeth Bay, but spends most of her time in Nashville where she lives with her husband, country singer Keith Urban and baby daughter Sunday Rose.
- CNA/jk
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