Billionaire's $10M Hollywood Hills mansion where Diddy filmed music video is TRASHED by taggers and squatters

An abandoned $10million Hollywood Hills mansion, wherever disgraced rapper Diddy filmed a euphony video, has been trashed by graffiti artists and taken implicit by squatters. 

Filmmaker Nick Sozonov caught immoderate of Los Angeles' top graffiti artists vandalizing a multimillion location successful Hollywood Hills that was abandoned by billionaire and Philadelphia Phillies proprietor John S. Middleton's son, John Powers Middleton. 

The gorgeous achromatic and solid location - that utilized to beryllium to vocalist Mary J. Blige - is present covered successful rainbow creation from words, to a crying dormant heart, to faces. 

'With the graffiti towers and this graffiti mansion close now, it feels similar a large mediate digit to the city,' Sozonov, who was not progressive successful the tagging, told ABC 7.  

On the country of the extortion reads: 'Diddy was here,' arsenic it is the mansion wherever the rapper - who was arrested successful Manhattan this week arsenic portion of a sex-trafficking probe - filmed his 'Last Night' video, which came retired successful 2016. 

'We each recognized the song, and erstwhile we knew that was the house, everyone was excited astir it, similar a personage mansion,' Sozonov told ABC 7. 

The location has seen an influx of taggers aft the transportation to Diddy was made.  

The Los Angeles Police Department has been called to the six-bedroom location astatine slightest six times this period for reports of vandalism and trespassing and has removed astatine slightest 10 radical connected Wednesday, according to the section outlet. 

One idiosyncratic was arrested connected a warrant, ABC 7 said. 

One vandal adjacent boasted astir his enactment to KTLA, calling his artwork 'beautiful' and said the location had a 'lot of imaginable for graffiti art.' 

He said it was casual to get into the spot from respective entree points.  

Private information present patrols the location 24 hours a day. 

Despite the vicinity not liking the vandalism and squatting, 1 told KTLA that the taggers weren't unsafe and didn't consciousness unsafe. 

'It's go a spot larger than it should be, and determination doesn't look to beryllium overmuch interest for the information and well-being of the neighbors,' nonmigratory Magnus Fiennes told ABC 7. 

Resident Mateo Herrerros said the taggers are besides graffitiing 'other houses connected different properties.' 

'I could attraction little astir this house. It's an abandoned house. The proprietor doesn't attraction astir it. I don't truly attraction astir it. It's conscionable the constituent it brings,' helium told NBC Los Angeles.  

LA Councilwomahttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13858269/sean-diddy-combs-arrested-manhattan-indictment.htmln Nithya Raman said successful a connection to ABC 7 that Middleton is successful 'egregious usurpation of the law' and said her bureau would beryllium 'elevating the contented with the abandoned buildings portion astatine the Department of Building and Safety to guarantee that the fullest grade of enforcement is being implemented urgently and swiftly.' 

Raman said Middleton has ignored an abatement order, which was issued by the Department of Buildings. 

A lien has besides been issued connected the mansion and Middleton defaulted connected spot taxes for respective years, ABC 7 reported.

Middleton besides owns different mansion successful the country that helium abandoned that has been overtaken by squatters. 

The mansion, located astatine 7571 Mulholland Drive, utilized person squatters surviving it arsenic good until a obstruction was constructed to support them out, but that didn't past long. 

'They chopped the fence. There were a batch of precise questionable people,' Karin Gideon told ABC 7. 'Some were crazy, immoderate really became threatening,' she said of the squatters. 

Neighbors told NBC Los Angeles that the location has been vacant for astir a decade, but squatters lone started to get astir a twelvemonth ago. 

Middleton bought the spot successful 2012. Ten years later, helium declared it a nuisance and helium was ordered by the Department of Buildings to physique a obstruction astir it, which helium failed to do. The metropolis past built the fence, according to NBC Los Angeles.

As for the aboriginal of the property, 1 vicinity resident, Pat Johnson, heard determination whitethorn beryllium demolition plans coming. 

This week, Diddy was arrested astatine Park Hyatt Hotel successful New York City and was aboriginal charged with enactment trafficking and proscription to prosecute successful prostitution - each of which helium pleaded not blameworthy to successful a Manhattan court.