A Hollywood producer’s vandalized mansions recall a landmark case when graffiti artists won $6.75 million after their work was destroyed

• Two empty Hollywood Hills mansions were taken over by squatters and covered in graffiti.
• Graffiti on the mansions is similar to tags on other empty luxury properties in Los Angeles.
• The incidents recall a landmark case that granted street artists $6.75 million after their art was destroyed.

Spray-painted tags similar to those on Los Angeles’ iconic graffiti towers have appeared in another unlikely place in the City of Angels. Two Hollywood Hills mansions are the latest targets in a growing trend of turning empty luxury properties into works of illegal street art.

The empty pair of properties, purchased in 2012 for $4.7 million and in 2013 for nearly $7 million, respectively, are located just miles away from each other in the exclusive area, The Los Angeles Times reported.

The LA Times, citing neighbors of the estates, reports that the properties have sat abandoned and overrun by squatters and graffiti artists , who have covered the mansions in their tags.

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