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Long Beach's Best Known Cheater Breaks Up Again

This time Jessie James won't take a bath on local real estate, as he did divorcing Sandra Bullock.

Jessie James, formerly Long Beach's favorite bad boy motorcycle reality TV star, is making headlines this week for his break-up with tattoo model Kat Von D.

As AOL News notes, there is a major difference between his latest high-profile breakup with the fiancee with tats and his divorce with former Surfside resident and Oscar-winning actress Sandra Bullock.

Last time he took a beating in the press and in the housing market, but this time it’s just the press he has to contend with.

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Arguably Long Beach's most well-known business owner, Jessie James ran West Coast Choppers, where he grew into a cable TV star as he designed and  built outrageous motorcycles. It was there that he met Bullock when she took her nephew for a visit. In January, 2010, the City of Long Beach renamed a street West Coast Choppers Place, in honor of the native son.

But while his company may own the Choppers property, James announced that he was relocating in Austin, where Bullock owns several homes. 

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According to AOL News, the divorce from Bullock left James with a Surfside home and condo to sell during the peak of the housing crisis. Originally listed at $6,750,000, the house sold for $4.5 million in December. And his three-bedroom condo nearby sold for $865,000 after being listed at $1,290,000.

[On a side note, Jesse James’s sister Juliana James England was recently arrested by the FBI, and faces 60 years in prison if convicted of allegedly stealing about $400,000 from Callan Western Sales, the Los Alamitos business where she worked before it went out of business."]


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