Ron Burkle

Four years after buying Bob Hope's longtime home in Toluca Lake for $15 million, billionaire businessman Ron Burkle has listed the newly restored estate for $29 million.

Billionaire investor Ron Burkle has listed the restored Toluca Lake estate of comedian Bob Hope for $29 million. The longtime home of the late Bob and Dolores Hope at 10346 Moorpark St. has been revamped, but still features amenities beloved by the famed comedian, including his wood-paneled office, joke storage vault and a 3-par golf hole replete with bunkers, the Wall Street Journal reported.

A Los Angeles home once owned by Bob Hope is listing for $29 million. Mr. Hope had a golf hole on the property. After a restoration, billionaire supermarket mogul Ron Burkle is listing Bob Hope’s longtime Los Angeles home for $29 million. The famed comedian and his wife, Dolores,...

Billionaire investor Ron Burkle has picked up a nearly century-old beachside cottage in Malibu for $13.5 million. The Montana-based resident from Los Angeles bought the 2,502-square-foot Malibu Colony retreat at 23708 Malibu Colony Rd., Dirt.com reported. The 5 bedroom, 4.5 bath house had been owned by the late artist and...

Spyglass Media Group, the entertainment outfit set up in the wake of the downfall of The Weinstein Co., appears headed to trial to defend itself against Ron Burkle, whose investment firm is still smarting from being cut out of a $289 million acquisition three years ago. On Tuesday, a Los Angeles judge gave a green light in a summary judgment ruling for Burkle’s Yucaipa Cos. to proceed on contract claims, if not fraud. Back in 2017, sexual misconduct accusations against Harvey Weinstein sent his eponymous film and television company into a tailspin. Burkle had heavy interest in acquiring TWC, but he...

Minnesota Wild general manager Bill Guerin and Pittsburgh Penguins owners Mario Lemieux and Ron Burkle will be named as defendants in a sexual assault lawsuit, according to a statement in advance of the filing Tuesday. Erin Skalde has said she was sexually assaulted by then-Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins coach Clark Donatelli:. "The...

Billionaire Ron Burkle — the owner of the Pittsburgh Penguins, the Soho House and Michael Jackson’s Neverland ranch — added the American Stock Exchange Building to his portfolio. Burkle’s private equity firm Yucaipa Companies bought the 14-story Financial District building at 86 Trinity Place from Clarion Partners for $155 million,...

Pittsburgh Penguins co-owner Ron Burkle’s abandoned attempt to bring the 30th MLS franchise to Sacramento has instead brought him legal troubles. Burkle, who owns the Penguins with Mario Lemieux, has been sued by two companies—M.A. Mortenson and CAA Icon—that contend they’re owed millions of dollars for work performed in anticipation of constructing a new stadium. Yet those companies didn’t sign contracts with Burkle or other named defendants, including Burkle’s investment arm, The Yucaipa Companies. Court records indicate that Burkle’s attorneys haven’t yet answered the complaints, which consist of unproven allegations. Answers and motions to dismiss will likely be filed in the...

In the mid-1990s Ron Burkle—the billionaire currently being sued over a botched Major League Soccer deal—was approached by an upstart investor named Bill Browder, who was trying to raise money for a hedge fund based in Russia. Browder, an American living in London, had struggled to find a deep-pocketed partner....

Billionaire Ron Burkle is being sued by a construction company for $1.4 million for unpaid bills. The company hired to develop the stadium also sued him.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KTXL) — Ron Burkle, who was a lead investor in Sacramento Republic FC’s bid to obtain a Major League Soccer franchise, is being sued again. Minnesota construction and engineering corporation, M.A Mortensen Company, filed a lawsuit last Thursday against Burkle and three other defendants accusing them of breach of contract and fraud.

The lawsuits are starting to pile up on Ron Burkle after the billionaire investor bailed out of Sacramento’s Major League Soccer effort. M.A. Mortenson Co., a Minnesota-based construction company that was supposed to build Sacramento’s MLS stadium, sued Burkle and his business partner Matt Alvarez last week, demanding nearly $1.4 million for unpaid bills.

A lawsuit has now been filed over the collapsed major league soccer stadium agreement in the Sacramento Railyards.