Hot Property: It's a Bob Hope double feature
by Jack Flemming, Neal J. Leitereg and Lauren Beale, Los Angeles Times
Jun 22, 2018
4 minutes
LOS ANGELES_Los Angeles businessman Ron Burkle has doubled down on Bob Hope estates, buying the late comic's longtime Toluca Lake compound for $15 million.
Two years ago, the billionaire paid $13 million for a modernist home in Palm Springs that was designed and built by architect John Lautner for Hope and his wife, Dolores, the Los Angeles Times previously reported.
The Toluca Lake home was designed for the Hopes in the English traditional style by architect Robert Finkelhor. In the mid-1950s, the couple wanted a more contemporary style and commissioned John Elgin Woolf to remodel and update the 1939 house.
The property is composed of parcels totaling a little
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