Coastal-access advocates set foot on the sand at Tinseltown titan David Geffen's sprawling beachfront estate, some for the first time, celebrating the opening of a 9-foot-wide public pathway to the ocean.
Creation of the walkway came after Geffen reluctantly made good on a 22-year-old legal promise to let the public onto part of Carbon Beach, a mile-long stretch of sand east of the Malibu Pier. The public will have access to the path as well as most of the beach in front of the Geffen estate.
Geffen had installed video security cameras that scanned the paved path off Pacific Coast Highway and every inch of beachfront in front of his house. The cameras were watching for "trespassers" stepping out of the public right of way and onto his private sand.
Several times during the Thursday visit, a security guard came out to order visitors off Geffen's property. Once, a guard demanded that a beach umbrella leaning several inches over the imaginary boundary line be moved.
If you get some of Geffen's "private sand" on your bottom, do you have to shake it off by squatting over his property line before you leave?
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