Internet mogul is living in grubby apartment convinced he is being watched by the FBI over ‘suspected 9/11 links’
Josh Harris says the FBI is following him because of the mysterious 'B Project' art installation at the World Trade Centre
A WEB mogul once worth £80million is now living in a shabby apartment convinced he is being watched by the FBI over a pre-9/11 art project.
Josh Harris made a fortune in the 1990s with his pioneering webcam firm Pseudo Programs and internet company Jupiter Communications.
But the 56-year-old now thinks the FBI has him under surveillance over an art installation at the World Trade Centre before the 9/11 terror attacks..
The project - produced by Gelatin, a performance-art troupe from Vienna - saw performers remove a window on the 91st floor of the North Tower and stand naked at the opening on a makeshift balcony in 2000.
The stunt was filmed by Harris from a helicopter he had hired and had been due for release in a show on the day of the attacks on September 11, 2001.
But after the devastating Al Qaeda atrocity, the show never took place.
Harris now thinks the FBI has been on to him since because authorities apparently thought ‘B Thing’ could stand for Bin Laden and some of the artists involved were ‘Arab’.
He told authorities may have thought the artists had prior knowledge of the terrorist attacks and believes the FBI followed him across the world.
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Gelatin have denied the group was involved in the World Trade Centre art project - calling his bizarre claims into question.
The mogul now lives in a grubby apartment in Vegas with an army knife next to his bed for protection.
He makes almost £530 a month playing online poker after his Pseudo Programs business went bankrupt in 2000.
Harris resurfaced in 2009 with a successful documentary called ‘We Live in Public’, which saw him and his girlfriend capture their every move on cameras in their Soho apartment.
It was based on a controversial art project in 1999 where 150 volunteers lived in a six-floor warehouse rented by Harris for a month where their every movement was filmed.
They ate, slept, had sex and went to the bathroom on camera but the NYPD stormed the building on New Year's Day, 2000, amid growing concern it was the dwelling of a Millennium cult.
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