Palm Beach billionaire developer Jeff Greene in January sued Gossip Extra after he saw this headline plastered on its front page: "Is Billionaire Jeff Greene Behind Dirty Politics Of Downtown West Palm Beach Development?" Greene has settled his suit with Gossip founder Jose Lambiet.



In the now-deleted article from Dec. 3, Lambiet wrote that Greene may have bankrolled opposition to a controversial West Palm waterfront skyscraper plan by rival real estate developer The Related Companies. West Palm Beach commissioners denied the project by one vote. Part of the opposition's efforts included mailers claiming the project would turn West Palm into a Miamiesque traffic jam. Lambiet's article also implied Green may have been behind phone calls to city officials calling another billionaire developer, Charles Cohen, a racist. Cohen in July offered cash to anyone who'd expose who was behind that.



Greene sued Lambiet for libel in January. Lambiet declined to tell the Palm Beach Post the terms of the settlement. The first few paragraphs of Lambiet's story, along with a picture of an anti-skyscraper mailer, can still be found in a cached web page on SouthFloridaReporter.com.