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    Democratic donor Ed Buck courted controversy, but now may have more than he wants

    by Hailey Branson-Potts, Richard Winton and Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times Jan 18, 2019 7 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - In 2010, then-California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman was holding a political rally at a Hollywood hotel when from the front row a man started heckling her.

    "What are you hiding?" the man shouted at the Republican candidate. "You're looking like Arnold in a dress!" he said, referring to outgoing Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

    Before Whitman could respond, then-New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who was speaking with Whitman, stepped down from the stage and pointed his finger in the man's face, saying it was "people who raise their voices and yell and scream like you that are dividing this country." The man pointed his finger right back in Christie's face.

    For many people watching the episode on television, it was a first glimpse, however brief, of Ed Buck, a former fashion model, self-described retired multimillionaire and onetime West Hollywood City Council candidate.

    Now, Buck is generating notoriety of a different kind after the deaths of two men in his West Hollywood apartment.

    The deaths of Timothy Dean, 55, earlier this month and Gemmel Moore, 26, in 2017 have prompted homicide investigations by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Prosecutors declined to press charges

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