{"id":629,"date":"2004-07-07T16:54:11","date_gmt":"2004-07-07T20:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2004\/07\/07\/mehran-karimi-nasseri\/"},"modified":"2004-07-07T16:54:11","modified_gmt":"2004-07-07T20:54:11","slug":"mehran-karimi-nasseri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2004\/07\/07\/mehran-karimi-nasseri\/","title":{"rendered":"Mehran Karimi Nasseri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a479'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<i>As of the summer of 2004, Nasseri is <b>still living in the airport<\/b>. He does not lack for money &#x2014; Dreamworks paid him a rumored $250,000 for the rights to his story.<\/i>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of course he has no bank accounts, so the checks are being held by <b>Christian Bourguet<\/b>, the famous lawyer who took on his case a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s item, he says, <i>&#8220;I&#8217;ll take it to DreamWorks&#8230; and send it by FedEx.&#8221;<\/i> [NYT]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. &#8220;As of the summer of 2004, Nasseri is still living in the airport. He does not lack for money &#x2014; Dreamworks paid him a rumored $250,000 for the rights to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[211],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}