… “Mitchell P. Rales, a Maryland billionaire who minted his fortune with a modern-day conglomerate, bought the property in 2007 and promptly bulldozed it.
Now Rales has set the island on edge again with a public demand that Eliot descendants stay off his wharf and beach.
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Rales contends in a lawsuit that easements Eliot and his descendants created when they sold parcels of the original estate do not entitle Eliot’s surviving relatives or others to gain access to his beach for “sunbathing, gathering, picnicking, using the wharf, storing boats, and engaging in other inappropriate activity.”