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'Property photos offer an glimpse inside the luxurious interior of a $6million mansion reportedly bought with donations.<br>The 6,785sq ft, seven-bed six-bath property in Studio City, near , was purchased in October 2020 for $5,888,800 by a financial manager for BLM leaders.<br>Pictures inside the grand home, sitting on a three-quarter-acre lot, reveal a pool, tree-lined yard, outdoor fireplace, 'butler's pantry', its own miniature filming studio, 24 parking spaces, and two separate guest houses along with the main house.<br>The property listing says the mansion's guests have included Hollywood royalty such as Marilyn Monroe and Humphrey Bogart.<br>Other luxury features boasted by the mansion's listing are a 'mud room, custom wrought iron staircase, and [https://www.msnbc.com/search/?q=rejuvenation%20light rejuvenation light] fixtures, handles and other details.' <br> Property photos show the luxurious seven-bedroom, 6,500-square foot $6million Los Angeles mansion reportedly purchased with Black Lives Matter donations<br> The mansion comes complete with a sound stage (pictured) and mini filming studio. According to the property listing, the mansion's guests have included Hollywood royalty such as Marilyn Monroe and Humphrey Bogart<br> The Studio City home - which sits on a three-quarter-acre lot - boasts more than half-dozen bedrooms and bathrooms, a 'butler's pantry' in the kitchen (pictured) as well as multiple fireplaces and a 'mud room' <br> The property's patio and outdoor yard features an inground pool and cabana <br>The home is also designed with opulent finishes such as a 'soapstone center island,' Carrara marble and Calacatta gold stone featured in bathrooms, three fireplaces - 'one imported from Italy and one with handmade Arto Cement Tile Hearth.'<br>The home, dubbed 'Campus' by BLM executives, was purchased by Dyane Pascall in October 2020 with cash, according to reports. <br>Pascall is the financial manager for Janaya and Patrisse Consulting LLC, a private consulting firm for disgraced BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors and her spouse Janaya Khan.<br>Soon after the purchase, the home was transferred to a company established in the opaque tax haven state of Delaware by law firm Perkins Coie, leaving its current ownership shrouded in mystery. <br>The purchase came days after BLM's official charity Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF) received an injection of $66.5million in donations that had flooded in from around the globe by people devastated by the murder of G <br>DM.later('bundle', function()<br>DM.molFeCarousel.init('#p-25', 'channelCarousel', <br>"activeClass" : "wocc",<br>"pageCount" : "3.0",<br>"pageSize" : 1,<br>"onPos": 0,<br>"updateStyleOnHover": true<br>);<br>);<br>BLM founders (from left) include Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, Opal Tometi (pictured together left in 2015) and LA faction founder Melina Abdullah (right photo) <br> The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation famously grew into one of the largest international movements against racial injustice in mid-2020 but has now come under intense scrutiny over its finances<br> Emails show the firm wanted to keep the purchase secret, despite filming a video on the home's patio in May<br> BLM attempted to quell speculation of suspected misappropriation in early 2021 by releasing a  that showed it had taken in $90million throughout 2020, distributed grants to its partner organizations, and had $60million remaining in its accounts. <br>Earlier this year,  the group blew $12.7million of those funds on 'professional fees', according to the charity revenue and expenses statements that were included in its application for tax-exempt, nonprofit status in August 2020. <br>However, neither of those reports included records of the $6million property purchase made months earlier. <br>News of the real estate acquisition was first reported by on Monday as the organization allegedly hoped to keep the house's existence a secret - despite three of its former leaders reportedly filming a series of videos dining and drinking champagne outside the estate last spring. <br>Documents and internal communications reportedly reveal the luxury property was handled in ways that 'blur boundaries' between charitable use and those that would benefit some of the organization's leaders - including Cullors, who shared video in June of her enjoying a ritzy brunch outside the estate with fellow officials Alicia Garza and Melina Abdullah, who have both since left the organization.   <br>When contacted by New York Magazine for comment regarding the property's existence, officials seemingly attempted to make the story go away. The magazine said it learned of the estate through a source from within the firm, who had access to the BLM brass' internal emails.<br>After receiving the email asking for comment, BLM officials reportedly circulated an internal memo with possible responses to the outlet's query concerning the alleged purchase, ranging from 'Can we kill the story?' to, 'Our angle - needs to be to deflate ownership of the property,' the magazine reported. <br>The memo reportedly included bullet points that outlined how 'Campus is part of cultural arm of the org - potentially as an 'influencer house,' where abolition+ based content is produced by artists & creatives.' <br>Another bullet point was reportedly titled 'Accounting/990 modifications,' according to the paper, and read in part: 'Need to first make sure it's legally okay to use as we plan to use it.' <br> Patrisse Cullors and Alicia Garza, and Melina Abdullah, allegedly laid out $6million to buy a 6500-square foot Southern California mansion (seen in background) Emails show the firm wanted to keep it secret, despite filming a video on its patio in May (pictured) - an incident officials in emails called a 'hole' in story given to the paper<br> Cullors, 38, came under fire last year for a slew of high-profile property purchases. She resigned after facing backlash from critics and supporters. BLM brass assert the latest purchase is above board, despite internal emails showing members attempting to cover up its existence when confronted with real estate records detailing the purchase<br> The video, posted in June, shows Cullors (not pictured) enjoying a ritzy brunch outside the estate with fellow officials Alicia Garza and Melina Abdullah, who have both since left the organization<br>The memo goes on to designate the property as a 'safehouse,' for leaders whose safety has been threatened. <br>The internal bulletin, however, notes: 'Holes in security story: Use in public YT videos,' seemingly referencing Cullors' public video reportedly outside the supposed secret hideout, in which the three officials casually sipped champagne on the property's patio over an ornate table spread and addressed controversy over Cullors' now notorious property purchases and alleged misuse of foundation funds.<br>'For me, the hardest moments have been the right-wing-media machine just leveraging literally all its weight against me, against our movement, against BLM the organization,' Cullors says in the 17-minute clip, posted shortly before her resignation following backlash over her reported purchase of four lavish homes for $3.2 million.<br>'I'm some weeks out now from a lot of the noise, so I have more perspective, right? While I was in it, I was in survival mode,' Cullors said, referring to an April 2021 article in the New York Post that detailed the purchases.<br>'I think they've attempted to cancel us, but they have not been successful in canceling us,' Abdullah says at another point in the recorded discussion meant to address the 1-year anniversary of the death of Eric Garner, but quickly became a defense of Cullors' real estate ventures.<br>'They've attempted to say - and I'm just gonna say it - 'She bought some damn houses. We gonna cancel her.'' Garza said, in a pointed comment addressing Cullors' critics. <br> <br> In a letter issued to BLM Monday, the California Department of [https://www.ft.com/search?q=Justice Justice] also accused the charity of failing to submit its annual financial reports and alleged it was in delinquent status<br>She too left the group shortly after the roundtable, saying that neither ‘right-wing attacks' nor criticism from Black organizers angered by disproportionate gaps between the fortunes of the movement's most lauded figures and on-the-ground activists, were reasons for her departure.<br>With that said, the idea the house simultaneously serves as a secret refuge for embattled BLMers and also a place for broadcasting [https://www.content-spinning.fr/ redaction content spinning] online seem to conflict with one another, being fundamentally opposed in nature.<br>In an emailed statement to New York Magazine April 1, Shalomyah Bowers, a BLM board member, asserted that the foundation had bought Campus 'with the intention for it to serve as housing and studio space for recipients of the Black Joy Creators Fellowship.' <br>The fellowship, which 'provides recording resources and dedicated space for Black creatives to launch content online and in real life focused on abolition, healing justice, urban agriculture and food justice, pop culture, activism, and politics,' was announced on April 2, the following morning.<br>Bowers also maintained in the statement that BLMGNF had 'always planned' to disclose the house in legal filings this May.<br>The board member also doubled down on declarations that the estate does not serve as anyone's personal residence, and that purchasing property via private LLCs is customary in real estate for legal reasons. <br>The statement did not address why the supposed creative 'influencer' space, relatively little content - aside from the aforementioned video, in which none of the former BLM officials addressed the property behind them - has been produced there over the course of 17 months. <br>The foundation's decision to keep mum on the house until now, when confronted, is unusual for a supposedly charitable - and tax-exempt - organization such as BLM, and it is one that leaves the organization open to further critique and scrutiny, nonprofit expert Jacob Harold told New York Magazine Monday. <br>'That's a very legitimate critique,' said Harold, a former CEO of GuideStar and the co-founder of Candid, an information service that reports on nonprofits, said of the reported purchase.<br>The revelation could negatively affect further donations to the foundation, Harold added, as it continues to face scrutiny over dodgy finances.<br>In February, foundation leaders were hit with a notice from the Department of Justice asserting that members could be held personally liable if they fail to disclose financial records about the charity's $60million in donations within the next 60 days.  <br> BLMGNF filed IRS documents requesting to become a nonprofit in 2020 when millions of dollars in donations began pouring in after the police killing of George Floyd <br> Under 'professional fees' in the organization's IRS Form 1023, BLMGNF listed $12,706,366 for 2020 and predicted a similar sum, $12.7million, on such costs for 2021 <br> RELATED ARTICLES <br><br><br><br>Share this article<br>Share<br><br><br>The DOJ requested a copy of BLM's annual registration renewal fee report and its 2020 IRS tax forms within two months time. <br>If the organization fails to submit these documents, its charity exemption status will be revoked. It could also face fines for 'each month or partial month for which the report(s) are delinquent.'<br>The letter, which was obtained by the , threatened that 'directors, trustees, officers and return preparers' would be 'personally liable' for 'all penalties, interest and other costs incurred to restore exempt status'. The DOJ noted that 'charitable assets cannot be used to pay these avoidable costs'.<br>Day earlier, it had been revealed that BLM has not had designated anyone as in charge of its finances after co-founder Cullors' resignation.<br>It is not clear who is currently in charge of the activist group after all three of its founding members - Cullors, Garza and Opal Tometi  - left the organization. <br><br>adverts.addToArray({"pos":"inread_player"})Advertisement<br><br><br>data-track-module="am-external-links^external-links"><br>Read more:<br><br><br><br><br><br>DM.later('bundle', function()<br>DM.has('external-source-links', 'externalLinkTracker');<br>);'