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196 Shore Road, Old Greenwich, a 1919 tear-down in the high flood zone, is back on the market, reduced to $3.1 million from last year’s ask of $3.689. That may be the right price; it’s waterfront, but I was struck by its agent’s choice of what to emphasize:

Full of history; formerly rented by John Phillips of Mama's and Papa's fame and Mick Jagger sunbathed on the seawall.

Phillips is probably best known for raping his own daughter, McKenzie, possibly impregnating her on the eve of her wedding to a Rolling Stone hanger-on (she subsequently aborted her baby, unsure whether it was the child of her father or the groom), and continuing an incestual relationship for another ten years. The image of this man lounging on the sea wall with Mick Jagger and poor McKenzie is, to me, off-putting.

Tear it down and rebuild and who’ll remember? But as a selling point … no, just … no.