Among the homeless of LA's doomed Venice neighbourhood, the wayward son of a Hollywood legend shuffles aimlessly towards a blacked-out car... how did it all go so wrong?

Once a playground for Hollywood's elite, Venice Beach successful Los Angeles is present a shadiness of its erstwhile self.

The sun-drenched boulevards that erstwhile drew stars similar Leonardo DiCaprio and Julia Roberts are present marked by a stark divide: luxury homes jostling for abstraction with makeshift tents, graffiti-stained walls, and an aerial of decay. The neighbourhood, erstwhile synonymous with glamour, present struggles nether the value of rising homelessness and crime.

Perhaps nary idiosyncratic amended encapsulates Venice's past and contiguous than the young antheral we spotted shuffling astir its backstreets past Thursday. Clad successful a achromatic T-shirt, achromatic pants and socks-and-slides, his soiled blond hairsbreadth clings to his look arsenic helium approaches a blacked-out car for a little exchange.

The antheral is 26-year-old Chance Hogan, the lad of actors Paul Hogan and Linda Kozlowski.

Despite seemingly having each accidental successful life, Chance's seedy beingness is worlds distant from the pampered lifestyles of different Hollywood 'nepo babies'.

Chance is nary alien to ungraded - aft all, his parents' narration was 1 of the biggest tabloid stories of the precocious 1980s.

The 2 fell successful emotion connected acceptable of Hogan's breakout movie Crocodile Dundee portion Hogan - 19 years Kozlowski's elder - was inactive joined to woman Noelene Edwards. The mates wed successful 1990, welcomed Chance 8 years later, and divorced successful 2014 

After his movie vocation took off, Hogan near his location state of Australia down and settled with Kozlowski successful Los Angeles successful the '90s. Chance was raised in Venice Beach and, during his abbreviated life, has witnessed the neighbourhood's shocking decline.

Still, helium got to ticker it hap from down the windows of his father's AU$4.5million (US$3.5 million) mansion. He adjacent seems to person concisely considered pursuing his footsteps into showbusiness, becoming the enigmatic frontman of a punk set named Rowdy P.

But it appears fame was not meant to beryllium for the aspiring musician. Reports abound of his reputation for 'wayward behaviour' amid claims his begetter Paul, now 85, is trying to steer him backmost onto the consecutive and narrow.

In his latest worrying nationalist sighting, on November 14, a dishevelled Chance was seen aimlessly pacing up and down the thoroughfare and approaching a blacked-out conveyance adjacent the location wherever helium is believed to unrecorded with his father.

He looked astir unrecognisable compared to the floppy-fringed lad who would travel his parents to reddish carpet events successful the aboriginal 2010s.

With his long, acheronian locks covering his face, Chance appeared to cod a achromatic bundle from the operator aft a little conversation.

While Daily Mail Australia does not suggest immoderate amerciable enactment occurred, the pictures volition nary uncertainty origin much interest for his dad after a drawstring of troublesome sightings.

Just days earlier, Chance had been spotted buying a bundle of cigarettes from a section convenience store.

During that outing, helium displayed what appeared to beryllium a agleam reddish midriff tattoo of a emotion bosom arsenic helium went shirtless beneath a denim jacket.

It is not the archetypal clip Chance has raised eyebrows. He shared disturbing footage to societal media successful September successful which he cryptically claimed thing was astir to 'begin' arsenic he held a cigaret betwixt his stained teeth, showing disconnected his inflamed gums.

'One hr and 25 minutes, 24 minutes present successful fact. That's erstwhile it commences. Let's see,' helium bizarrely said, though it was unclear what helium was referring to.

Just months earlier, successful March, Paul Hogan had issued an update connected his son's wellbeing aft helium recorded himself being rushed to infirmary successful October 2023 covered successful cuts and bruises.

Hogan told DailyMail.com that Chance was 'doing a batch better' aft the concerning videos but wouldn't beryllium drawn into revealing thing more.

Back successful 2018, photographs famously emerged showing Chance vomiting extracurricular a venue successful Santa Monica wherever his set Rowdy P had conscionable performed.

Chance was seen crouching down and holding his caput successful his hands successful images that reportedly near his celebrated begetter 'shattered'.

It is not known whether Chance inactive performs with his band, but their past station promoting a gig successful Pasadena was shared backmost successful January, suggesting they person not been booking regular shows of late.

The archetypal motion thing was amiss with Chance came backmost successful 2015 erstwhile helium was reportedly caught drinking brew and smoking what appeared to beryllium a bong connected the balcony of his father's home.

Later, helium was forced to deny helium was a devil worshipper aft posting the satanic 'devil's number' 666 connected Instagram and different representation of a drafting of an inverted Christian crucifix.

Hitting backmost astatine the allegations, Chance told Woman's Day astatine the time: 'It's similar I'm a satanic devil worshipper and my parents hatred each other, nary of that's true.'

'It's like, "Hey, you're that Satanist drug-taking evil guy, right?"' helium added.

Chance's troubles implicit the years person reportedly proved hard for his father, who has expressed a tendency to instrumentality to Australia since Venice Beach's downward turn.

In October 2022, Paul confessed helium was homesick and said the lone happening keeping him from returning Down Under was his son.

Describing Chance arsenic American, not an Australian, helium told Sydney's Daily Telegraph newspaper: 'The lone household [Chance has got] is me.'

He explained that each of Chance's adjacent relatives, including his grandparents, person died, and his lad sees the U.S. arsenic his location due to the fact that that is wherever helium was raised.

'All his friends, his band, instrumentalist mates, girlfriends, everything – they're each American,' Hogan said. 'He lone has me, whereas my people astatine home, they've each got each other.'

Hogan's location is successful the once-elite beachside suburb of Venice, wherever a immense summation successful homelessness has seen hundreds of tents enactment the beach's celebrated boardwalk and a crisp summation successful crime.

Speaking astatine the tallness of the pandemic, Hogan complained: 'I'm surviving successful LA county, which is 10 cardinal radical and fractional of them person got Covid. So americium I homesick? You stake your life.'

When asked however helium was coping with Los Angeles' rising transgression wave, Hogan simply said that helium 'doesn't spell anywhere' and often remains wrong his property.

'[I'm] bored successful lockdown, and the infinitesimal I tin get connected the level without being locked successful a edifice for 2 weeks, I'm back,' helium said successful 2021.

His neighbour Tyler Proctor, a section politician, boldly described Hogan's neighbourhood arsenic 'hell connected earth', adding: 'His location is similar a fortress and it needs to be, I tin spot wherefore [he] wants to determination out.'

Over the past fewer years, residents of Venice Beach person complained astir soaring transgression rates and a emergence successful homelessness, which they assertion has made beingness successful the elite beachside assemblage unbearable.

In 2021, concern owners said they were forced to adjacent their doors and semipermanent residents were acrophobic to permission their homes aft acheronian owed to being subjected to convulsive attacks and intimidation.

Amid the struggles of the Covid, constabulary were seen patrolling the tent-laden Venice Beach boardwalk - erstwhile famed for its unsocial and bohemian civilization which would pull arsenic galore arsenic 10 cardinal visitors per year.

Hogan was calved successful bluish New South Wales and raised successful Sydney. He worked arsenic a rigger connected the Sydney Harbour Bridge earlier helium roseate to fame connected endowment quest New Faces.

After becoming a household sanction successful Australia arsenic a comedian, Paul soared to planetary fame successful 1986 successful the iconic fish-out-of-water drama movie Crocodile Dundee, the relation for which helium remains champion known.

As good arsenic Chance, Hogan besides shares 4 different sons, Brett, Clay, Scott and Todd, and a daughter, Lauren, with his archetypal wife, Noelene.