BOB HOPE - HOPE'S WIDOW UPSETS L.A. RESIDENTS IN LAND SALE DEAL

HOPE'S WIDOW UPSETS L.A. RESIDENTS IN LAND SALE DEAL

Legendary late comedian BOB HOPE's wife DOLORES has enraged Los Angeles' residents after selling a huge portion of land to a property developer in a sensational $1.4 billion (GBP520 million) deal.
Veteran comic actor Hope was registered as California's largest landowner following his death aged 100 in 2003 - reportedly owning nearly one million acres of land purchased throughout his lucrative career.
And now, singer Dolores, 99, has reportedly infuriated her neighbours by selling 240,000 acres of the Hope estate's land in the Tehachapi Mountains area to a wealthy property developer.
The developer intends to use the land to build low-cost housing, according to Britain's the Daily Mail newspaper.
But the move has upset local property owners, who insist any further properties in the already built-up L.A. area will ruin their views of Hollywood's infamous skyline.