The letter on file with the City of Miami carries two names: Stefan Parris Pizzi and Adriana Victoria Ocampo, the couple who own a duplex in Little Haiti. Pizzi says neither of them wrote it or signed it. He also says that letter is the reason a roughly 50-foot oak on the line between his lot and the one next door is now a stump, according to a 7 Investigates report by WSVN 7News that aired Oct. 20.
He has taken the fight to court, where part of his case has already fallen away. In July, a judge permanently dismissed the fraud and forgery count of his lawsuit, a ruling the defendants’ lawyers now point to.
An Oak Beside an Orange Fence
Pizzi and his girlfriend bought the duplex in 2023. The property is ringed with trees, and the big oak stood right on the boundary. Pizzi told 7News the oak contrasted with the home’s orange fence and gave the place its distinctive look.
In 2025, the oak vanished. Pizzi said his front-door tenant called him in a panic to say the tree had been cut down. A crew clearing the neighboring lot had taken out several trees there, and the shared oak was one of them…