That's funny enough, but as WJBK Fox 2 points out, the cherry on top of this cupcake is an almost 12-foot high statue of a middle finger Markovitz put in his back yard, pointed¹ toward his former love and her new boyfriend.

 

Fox 2 wasn't able to get the ex-wife on the horn, but did speak with Markovitz. He told them that the plan was to get even with the new boyfriend, because two had allegedly had an affair while she was still married to our favorite art patron². He also told them that it wasn't his intention for this to be public and that it only spread after his ex-wife's daughter posted a picture on her Twitter account.

 

A private message, however, would be out of character for Mr. Markovitz. He's quite the deal in Detroit. As this Deadline Detroit article summarizes in its first paragraph, "He's been shot twice, and he once was the target of a murder contract. He wrote an autobiography³ and bought and sold 11 local topless clubs…He once used a chimp⁴ in an act with predictably strange results." And that's not it.

 

Fox 2 asked a very good question: is this legal? Their legal analyst⁵ Charlie Langton says "Unless this city has some ordinance⁶, that prevents these kind of fingers from being illegal of some kind – no! You could have a statue, some people might call it art, I don't know, but there's nothing illegal about it…I know it doesn't look good, but there's nothing illegal about it. Get over it!"

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