After Last Call: A Bartender Trades SoHo for Serbia to Reclaim His Mansion

I know several people whose families have these "scars". These stories are rather common and didn't happen just in Eastern Europe. In my country (Portugal) they happened during decolonization of Africa [1]. Most people lost everything.

As difficult as to get wealth is to keep it.

[1] - Great book about decolonization of Angola written by a foreigner (Polish journalist): http://www.amazon.com/Another-Day-Life-Ryszard-Kapuscinski/d...

I think one of the most notable cases is the Prince of Liechtensteins (former) estates in Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic. Here is an overview of that story: http://www.minorsights.com/2014/09/Czech-Lednice-Valtice.htm...

Looks like this is the house on streetview: https://www.google.com/maps/@44.8038344,20.4722595,3a,75y,37...

My favorite part of the article, and a good intro point, is this 6 question questionnaire of which of his outlandish exploits are true: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/01/22/nyregion/bob-b...