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Another former senior staffer has testified that Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and his top aides were aware of sexual harassment and bullying by political consultant Rick Jacobs.
The new allegations were unveiled Tuesday in a legal deposition, part of a lawsuit by a former member of Garcetti’s LAPD security detail, Matthew Garza. During his years assigned to the mayor, Garza said in his lawsuit that Jacobs gave him unwanted hugs and shoulder massages, and peppered him with inappropriate sexual jokes and comments about his physique all of which were allegedly common knowledge in the mayor’s office.
Billionaire Philanthropist Eli Broad Dies at 87
LOS ANGELES Eli Broad, the billionaire entrepreneur turned philanthropist and art collector, died on Friday at the age of 87.
Broad passed away at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles following a long illness, said Suzi Emmerling, a spokeswoman for the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation.
An accountant by trade who made his fortune in real estate and insurance, Broad helped create The Broad, the Los Angeles museum housing his collection of postwar and contemporary art, which opened in 2015.
Broad contributed heavily to the construction of the nearby Walt Disney Concert Hall as well as an art center at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Eli Broad and wife Edythe Broad in 2009.
Eli Broad, Los Angeles Philanthropist With Art Trove, Dies at 87 Broad built a fortune of more than $7 billion from two companies, Kaufman & Broad, the first homebuilder to trade on the New York Stock Exchange, and SunAmerica, one of the largest U.S. annuity providers.
Christopher Palmeri | May 03, 2021
(Bloomberg) Eli Broad, the billionaire businessman who founded two Fortune 500 companies in different industries before becoming one of America’s most prominent philanthropists and art collectors, has died. He was 87.
Broad died Friday afternoon at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles following a long illness, said Suzi Emmerling, a spokeswoman for the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation.