for more than four years, filingappeals while defying court orders to demolish the house andleave, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its April issue. Resende is among scores of millionaires who spend weekendsand vacation time in homes built in violation of state andfederal environmental rules on some of the most beautiful realestate in Brazil, Rios state environmental institute, INEA,found in an August 2011 report. The squatters include movie director Bruno Barreto, whodestroyed preserved land on Pico Island in Paraty Bay,prosecutors say. Beachfront Compounds Others, such as the family that controls multinationalconstruction giant Camargo Correa SA, received governmentpermission to build small houses in a nature preserve -- andinstead constructed beachfront compounds. Heirs to Roberto Marinho, who created Organizacoes Globo,South Americas biggest media group, built a 1,300-square-meter(14,000-square-foot) home, helipad and swimming pool in part ofthe Atlantic coastal forest that by law is supposed to beuntouched because of its ecology. Hollywood producers chose a Polynesian-style mansion on theMamangua Inlet as the romantic setting for a sex scene in TheTwilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1, the fourth movie in theteen vampire series. The house was built by millionaire squatterIcaro Fernandes, an executive in the food distribution industry. All Brazilian beaches are public by law. Wealthy Braziliansdo whatever they want on land that often doesnt belong to them,says Eduardo Godoy of the Paraty office of the Chico MendesInstitute for Biodiversity Conservation, or ICMBio, whichmanages federally protected areas. Not What the Law Says They think they are the only ones who deserve to enjoy apiece of paradise because they are rich, Godoy says. Theysay they are the owners of the island or the beach, andeverybody believes them. But thats not what the law says. Fernandes declined to comment. Rogerio Zouein, his lawyer,admitted that Fernandes had built a house without a license.Zouein told prosecutors in April 2011 that Fernandes wouldrestore 95 percent of his property to its original condition ifhe could stay in the home. Prosecutors were evaluating therequest as of early March. That court response is a common way that many of thewealthy squatters use to handle judges orders. They typicallydont deny theyve harmed the environment and instead pledge toundo the damage. After that, they take no action. Broken Promise Film director Barreto promised in court in January 2008that he would demolish his house and put the area back to itsoriginal state within two years. Four years later, Barretoremains on the property, having left it intact, prosecutors say.Barreto, who is appealing government complaints again him,declined to comment. As the wealthy in Brazil get richer from the fastesteconomic growth there in more than two decades, the unlawful useof public land is increasing in nature preserves, says Godoy,whose federal environmental agency in Paraty, a 17th-centurycolonial town about 250 kilometers (155 miles) south of Rio deJaneiro, faces a bay filled with illegally occupied islands. Squatters have chosen to reside in the Cairucu, Juatingaand Tamoios conservation areas, in forests and on islands, withrivers, waterfalls and beaches where sea turtles nest. The richuse attorneys to dodge laws, lie to authorities on constructionpermit requests, illegally destroy preserved land and rivers andprivatize beaches by hiring armed