Sean “Diddy” Combs filmed a music video contained in the now-deserted Hollywood Hills mansion taken over by squatters and taggers who’ve since spray-painted “Diddy was right here” on the roof after studying in regards to the manufacturing.
Combs used a number of components of the luxurious house together with the good room, the spiral staircase and outdoors close to the pool because the background for his 2007 music “Final Night time” that includes Keyshia Cole.
Mary Ok. Blige has resided contained in the mansion in years previous, as have a number of “high-level enterprise of us,” one neighbor named Jack advised KABC.
“I believe some influencers have lived right here over time. It’s a extremely cool home. It’s massive,” the neighbor added.
“The longer it sits like this, extra individuals are going to come back and preserve doing what they’re doing,” Jack mentioned. “The neighborhood, this home particularly, may use a safety guard. Two guards … not that costly. Let’s preserve the neighborhood protected.”
Combs is being held on the Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Heart after he was arrested by federal brokers on fees of intercourse trafficking, racketeering and transportation to have interaction in prostitution.
The rapper was positioned on suicide watch contained in the jail as a “preventative measure.”
The uncared for mansion at 7571 Mulholland Drive within the posh Hollywood Hills has been owned by John Powers Middleton since 2012.
Middleton, the one son of businessman and Philadelphia Phillies proprietor John S. Middleton, was issued an abatement order by town of Los Angeles two years after buying the property.
Middleton owns a second Los Angeles property that has additionally change into overrun by squatters and taggers, based on KABC.
Squatters and taggers have been getting into the property for over two years.
The undesirable visitors have change into complications and security hazards for the neighbors, who name the house an eyesore with the outside partitions blasted with graffiti artwork and “tags.”
Residents dwelling close to the Hollywood Hills house have fumed that they’re not protected dwelling close to the property.
One house owner was attacked by a vagrant with a “metal rebar and beer bottle,” WPVI reported.
Others declare the taggers are starting to unfold their work to different properties.
The Los Angeles Division of Constructing and Security declared the property a nuisance and issued an abatement order forcing the proprietor to construct a fence and safe the property in Oct. 2022, NBCLA reported.
Middleton did not adjust to the order, main town to erect a fence as a substitute.
A lien has been issued on the house and Middleton has defaulted on property taxes for a number of years.
The squatters and taggers nonetheless accessed the six-bedroom, 9,707-square-foot house. In response to the itemizing, Middleton’s mansion has a pool and is estimated to be value $6.53 million.
A lot of the home windows have been shattered and the outside partitions and the roof of the home have been lined with graffiti.
Non-public safety has been positioned on the house 24/7 in hopes of maintaining the squatters and taggers away.
The Los Angeles Police Division was known as to the property six instances in September and eliminated 10 folks on Wednesday, arresting one on a warrant, KABC reported.
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