Dive Brief:
- Madonna owns a 24-acre horse farm in Suffolk County, N.Y., on Long Island.
- The singer owns only half of the development rights, however, with the other half being shared by the county and the town of Southampton as part of a preservation program.
- A contractor working on adjacent land that Madonna also owns needed a way to get machinery there, and a construction road through the farm was the easiest solution.
Dive Insight:
The diva of the pop music stage ran afoul of a county law that says there can't be a "driveway, roadway, path or thoroughfare" on conservation land unless it's for agricultural purposes. The lawyer for Madonna's Wild Horses Farms LLC says it was all a mistake and that the crews have replaced sod they put aside and re-seeded the road.
