Gross’s Noise Expert Detours From ‘Gilligan’ to Music in Warfare

  • Seaside neighbor says billionaire played loud music to harass
  • Scientist said speakers at Gross home unlike U.S. military’s

Bill Gross

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Bill Gross called on a noise expert to convince a judge he wasn’t trying to annoy his neighbor by playing the “Gilligan’s Island” theme song repeatedly, but the witness wound up having to downplay a comparison to the U.S. military’s use of loud music as psychological warfare.

NASA scientist Durand Begault finished his testimony in a Southern California court Thursday where a judge is hearing dueling harassment claims from Gross and his Laguna Beach neighbor Mark Towfiq.