BLM defends purchase of $6M California home with donations

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In this June 14, 2020 photo, U.S. flag flutters next to a giant Black Lives Matter banner at the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea. The banner has been removed from the U.S. Embassy building in South Korea's capital three days after it was raised there in solidarity with protesters back home.(AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

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Black Lives Matter defended the group’s secretive purchase of a swanky $5.8 million Southern California home with donated funds, vowing to “increase transparency” – while still providing little detail about the eyebrow-raising acquisition.

BLM purchased this LA mansion for $3.1 million.

“There have been a lot of questions surrounding recent reports about the purchase of Creator’s House in California,” BLM said Monday in its official Twitter account.

 

“Despite past efforts, BLMGNF recognizes that there is more work to do to increase transparency and ensure transitions in leadership are clear,” added the left-wing social justice group, which turned off replies to its tweets.


According to The Daily Mail.com, BLM apologized for the ‘stress’ caused by ‘inflammatory’ reports about its shady use of donations to buy $6m California ‘safe house’ for leaders: Vows more ‘transparency, healing and truth-telling’

  • Black Lives Matter has apologized following an expose that detailed how the organization had used donations to purchase a $6 million home in Los Angeles 
  • In a lengthy Twitter thread, the group vowed to be more transparent in the future
  • But the organization also criticized the original New Yorker article, describing it as ‘inflammatory and speculative’
  • BLM claims the mansion was purchased to encourage ‘Black creativity’ and used as a ‘space for Black folks to share their gifts with the world and hone their crafts’
  • The groups co-founder, Patrisse Cullors, who resigned last year amid scrutiny of her $3.2 million real estate empire, called reports of the mansion ‘despicable’ 
  • Cullors lashed out a day after article was published saying the house purchase hadn’t been announced earlier because ‘it needed repairs and renovation’ 

The sprawling 6,500-square-foot Studio City compound — that boasts seven bedrooms and seven bathrooms, a sound stage, music studio, pool, and parking for more than 20 cars — was secretly bought by a shell company in Oct. 2020 connected to Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, New York magazine reported.

 

 

The embattled organization used part of its $90 million donation windfall to purchase the lavish digs, according to the explosive report.

Property records obtained by The Post confirm that the SoCal mansion was purchased by Dyane Pascall, a local real estate developer with links to BLM, in a deal that closed Oct. 27, 2020.

 

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(Source: NY POST.com, The Daily Mail.com, FOX News, FOX 26 News)