Jury Sees Video of CEO's Posh Apartment

N E W  Y O R K, Nov. 25 -- It turns out that $6,000 shower curtain is inthe maid's room.

Jurors in the Tyco International corporate larceny trial learnedtoday during a video tour of the $18 million company-ownedapartment where former Chief Executive Officer Dennis Kozlowskistayed when he was in New York City.

The 15-minute tape, recorded in May 2002 and July 2003, shows asumptuously appointed duplex occupying the 10th and 11th floors of950 Fifth Ave. Besides the purchase price, prosecutors say, some$14 million was spent to renovate and furnish it.

Entry to the lavish flat was through a 20-foot-by-20-foot foyerdecorated with $500,000 worth of hand-painted birds, according toJohn Taylor, Tyco's director of construction for five years untillast June.

The video tour guide was Mariola Tarnachowicz, the Kozlowskis'former housekeeper. As the camera moved through the apartment,Tarnachowicz identified the rooms and several objects pointed outby Assistant District Attorney Consuelo Fernandez.

Art, Fancy Curtain

The videotape shows at least a dozen paintings, including aMonet and a Renoir, a $2,200 wastebasket, as well as thenow-infamous $15,000 umbrella stand. The stand is a sculptedterrier on its hind legs with a brass ring through its paws to holdumbrellas.

Tarnachowicz, who made more than $80,000 the year before Tycofired her last May, pointed out the $6,000 shower curtain. Thecurtain, in a gold-and-burgundy floral pattern, was in the maid'sbathroom.

Tarnachowicz said one had to go through at least two doors tosee the curtain, raising the possibility that Kozlowski never sawit after it was in the apartment.