patrce lapoirie / Maxppp / PA Images The so-called 'Chateau Diter' - the 32,000-square foot Italianate palace built by property tycoon Patrick Diter (and named after him) - is set to be demolished after he lost a 15 year court battle with neighbouring millionaires, Stephen and Caroline Butt. Why? A failure to obtain a building permit for the project, which begun in 2005 and was completed in 2009, on the site of what was once a 2,000-square foot farmhouse in the South of France. Diter had been appealing a court decision in 2015 to destroy all but the original house, but now France's highest court, la Cour de Cassation, has ruled the original decision must be upheld.