Markovitz bought the house directly next door to his ex-wife but says he's totally over her  Photo: Courtesy


 

A Michigan man has erected a giant bronze sculture of a hand with its middle finger raised in the direction of his neighbor - who also happens to be his ex-wife.

Alan Markovitz, 59, a Detroit strip-club entrepreneur, erected the 12-foot-high, spot-lit sculpture in the backyard of his lakefront Orchard Lake home.

A person who appears to be the daughter of Markovitz's ex-wife Lea Tuohy tweeted about the sculpture.

'How psychotic do you have to be to buy the house directly next to your ex wife and then put a statue up like that?!?! Real classy alan,' Lenka Tuohy tweeted November 11.

Markovitz is a well-known character around Detroit.

He began opening strip clubs on Detroit's infamous Eight Mile in the 1980s. Since then, he's been shot twice (once in the face), had a Mob contract out on his life, sued by exotic dancers and, once had an ex-girlfriend drive her Pontiac Fiero through the front door of one of his clubs.

Source: Dailymail