There goes the neighborhood?
Vin Diesel’s neighbor is in an uproar over the star’s large security team, claiming the security guards’ presence in their private gated community is “insulting” and “absurd,” according to a report.
“For a few weeks now, I have personally witnessed and heard from fellow homeowners the unprecedented and insulting display of your security people around our homes and on the beach,” the neighbor wrote in a letter to Diesel obtained by TMZ. “Interrogate us, block our street with five or six SUVs. Residents stop while walking when you are cycling. “
The 53-year-old rents a block in the Dominican Republic, located in “a community where no one is a threat to you or anyone else visiting us,” the letter said.
“… We are used to [seeing] many celebrities like you, but who have not imposed their own personal and arbitrary rules while violating the peaceful enjoyment of us, homeowners and our guests while we are here, ”wrote the neighbor.
The New York neighbor fired the note after Diesel’s security team allegedly “blocked pedestrians and traffic” so that the actor and his children could cycle over Easter, TMZ said. He has three children, ranging in age from 6 to 13 years old, with his wife Paloma Jiménez.
But a source close to the action star explained that the extra security TMZ of that day was needed because his family was present. He and the children handed out Easter baskets to workers in the community, the source added.
Overall, the ‘Fast & Furious’ star was never meant to ‘bother’ the neighbors and gets along well with the locals during his 20-year visits to the Dominican Republic, the source said.
The source also noted that the guards are Dominicans, a move Diesel made to employ people in the area, the source noted.
Page Six has contacted a Diesel representative.