EXCLUSIVE: 'He's finished!' U2 guitarist The Edge's dreams of building $100million family compound on an untouched Malibu mountainside are shattered after he loses a 14-YEAR legal battle
California Supreme Court denied The Edge's (real name David Evans) petition to review his case for his $100million Malibu dream complex, shattering his construction plans for a five-home compound. Evans' five-home project called 'Leaves in the Wind' has been 14 years in the making amid a drawn-out battle with environmental protesters who claim he wants to 'pave over paradise'. A 640,000-member group called Sierra Club sued Evans two years ago over the development and lost but appealed the verdict in March and won. 'He's finished - the California Supreme Court was his last resort,' a lawyer for the Sierra Club tells DailyMailTV. The 57-year-old rocker could re-apply to Los Angeles County planners for new building permits, but it would be another costly years-long battle. Evans bought the 151 acres of untouched land at Sweetwater Mesa in 2005 for $9million, overlooking Malibu's pier a thousand feet below.