Porsche-driving squatters evicted from Long Island home

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No more home sweet home for two luxe-living Long Island squatters.

The couple, Denton Gayle, 29, and Margaret Grover, 19, who share a toddler son and a dog named Daisy, were evicted from a Nassau County home last Friday morning, reported the New York Post.

Sheriff’s deputies changed the locks and removed their belongings, including a Porche and a big screen TV, after the couple had lived there for a year.

The pair, who were arrested in October after a caller told police they were concerned for the child — given the squalid living conditions — were forced to leave the two-story Cape Cod, which had been in foreclosure for a decade and abandoned for two years.

A Town of North Hempstead building inspector said the house, which had no heat, electricity, hot water or working bathrooms, was “unlivable.”

Still, the couple went to Nassau Housing Court to claim they signed a lease for the home with the owner, Edward Iacono, in a rent-to-own agreement in July.

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Judge Christopher Coschignano had ordered they be allowed to stay after Iacono died in 2016 and his son passed away in 2018.

Neighbours went to court, submitting death certificates to Coschignano and asking for an eviction order. He agreed after Gayle and Grover failed to offer proof of their claims.

The couple’s lawyer told the Post earlier this month they aren’t squatters and believe they signed a valid lease in July with a man they thought was the owner.