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The Hef saves Hollywood (well, the sign at least)!<\/p>\n
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner is being credited with rescuing the world-famous Hollywood sign after he donated the last $900,000 sought by a conservation group for a land purchase needed to save the land behind the landmark from being turned into a luxury housing development. <\/span><\/p>\n The land trust needed to collect a total of $12.5 million by this Friday under a deal with a group of Chicago investors who bought the 1,820-foot vista and 138-acre adjacent parcel, called Cahuenga Peak, from the estate of billionaire Howard Hughes in 2002.<\/p>\n The trust will now purchase the land and turn it over to the city to be incorporated into the surrounding Griffith Park. The move will prevent any construction that would obscure the timeless view of the Hollywood sign.<\/p>\n Los Angeles city officials, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the San Francisco-based Trust for Public Land thanked Hefner for his sizable contribution during a news conference in the Hollywood Hills on Monday morning.<\/p>\n “My childhood dreams and fantasies came from the movies, and the images created in Hollywood had a major influence on my life and Playboy,” <\/em>Hef said in a statement. “As I’ve said before, the Hollywood sign is Hollywood’s Eiffel Tower and I’m pleased to help preserve such an important cultural landmark.”<\/em><\/p>\n Other private donors who made contributions to the Hollywood sign preservation effort included actor Tom Hanks and director Steven Spielberg.<\/p>\n The Hef saves Hollywood (well, the sign at least)! Playboy founder Hugh Hefner is being credited with rescuing the world-famous Hollywood sign after he donated the last $900,000 sought by a conservation group for a land purchase needed to save the land behind the landmark from being turned into a luxury housing development. The land […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/cdn.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Hollywood-Sign-500x373.jpg\" "\\"Hollywood")
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