Nearly all of that money came from a single donor: the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. Meanwhile, the opposition campaign, which is also mainly backed by a single contributor, raised just a bit more.
The scene of a grisly 1959 murder-suicide has sat abandoned since the 1960s, shortly after physician Harold Perelson attacked his wife and daughter, then killed himself. It's a grand 1920s mansion in a great location, but will anyone want it?
The story of how a physician murdered his wife inside the home in the 1950s inspired some local urban legends. It’s sat empty since the 1960s. Now the new owners, who paid just under $2.3 million, plan to restore the Spanish Revival.
LA city council president Herb Wesson is apparently having a lot of trouble paying off his two homes, having received no less than five notices of default since 2011. As recently as July, one of those homes was nearly sold in a trustee's sale.