Crocodile Dundee star Paul Hogan has been spotted out and about for the first time in over a year as he ran errands in his crime and homeless-ridden Los Angeles neighborhood.
The reclusive Australian-born actor wearing jeans and a denim shirt looked gaunt as he pumped gas and washed his windows last month in his Venice neighborhood that has been overrun by vagrants.
The last time Hogan, 82, was photographed in public was last May when he was thought to be pinning up an angry note to vagrants camped outside his $3.5million Venice mansion.
Hogan denied writing the sign that read, ‘THIS IS MY HOUSE NOT YOURS,’ despite being pictured holding a red marker near the note. He claimed he was carrying the red marker near the sign because he was leaving instructions for an electrician.
Crocodile Dundee star Paul Hogan was seen last month running errands in his Venice, Los Angeles, neighborhood
The 82-year-old wore an all-denim outfit as he pumped gas into his black SUV
The last time Hogan, 82, was photographed in public was last year when he was thought to be pinning up an angry note to vagrants camped outside his $3.5million Venice mansion
Hogan denied writing the sign that read, ‘THIS IS MY HOUSE NOT YOURS,’ despite being pictured holding a red marker near the note
Hogan is best know for depicting heartthrob adventurer Mick Dundee in the 1986 romantic adventure classic
Hogan is best known for depicting heartthrob adventurer Mick Dundee in the 1986 romantic adventure classic.
He moved to Los Angeles in 2005 with his then-love interest and former co-star Linda Kozlowski, who he met on the set of Crocodile Dundee.
He left his first wife Noelene to pursue a love affair with much-younger Linda, now 64, and they wed in 1990.
In 2014 she filed for divorce but they are said to still be on good terms and live in the same neighborhood while co-parenting their son Chance, 24.
In an interview with Sunrise last year, Hogan said he was ‘desperate’ to return to Australia and leave his life in America behind.
‘I am desperately homesick,’ he said.
Hogan moved to Los Angeles in 2005 with his then love interest and former co-star Linda Kozlowski
Hogan wore dark black shades and black sneakers while he ran his errands on a Thursday afternoon
Despite yearning to come back to Australia, Paul said he would remain living in Venice to be apart of his son Chance’s life. Pictured in December 2016. Chance is now 24
His home is in the eleven-elite beachside suburb of Venice, where a vast increase in homelessness has been seen hundreds of tents line the beach’s famous boardwalk and a sharp increase in crime.
‘I’m living in LA County, which is 10 million people and half of them have got Covid. So am I homeick? You bet your life,’ Hogan complained.
When asked how he was coping with Los Angeles’ crime wave, Hogan simply said he ‘doesn’t go anywhere.’
‘[I’m] bored in lockdown, and the minute I can get on the plane without being locked in a hotel for two weeks, I’m back,’ he said in 2021.
Despite yearning to go back to Australia, Hogan said he would remain living in Venice to be a part of his son’s life.
‘Where Paul lives is hell on earth,’ Hogan’s neighbor Tyler Proctor, a local politician, said last year. ‘His house from him is like a fortress and it needs to be. I can see why [he] wants to move out.’
The actor lives in the eleven-elite beachside suburb of Venice, where an increase in homelessness has resulted in a terrifying crime wave
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‘Where Paul lives is hell on earth,’ Hogan’s neighbor Tyler Proctor, a local politician, said last year. ‘His house from him is like a fortress and it needs to be. I can see why [he] wants to move out.’ The outside of Hogan’s home is pictured
Hogan isn’t the only Venice resident who is fed up with the homelessness. DailyMail.com revealed last month that Hunter Biden moved out of a $25,000-per-month rented canal-front home in Venice. Hunter’s former home is pictured left
Photos show tents, umbrellas, trash bags, camping chairs, blankets and shopping carts piled up, filling the width of the sidewalk and stretching down the Venice street
Hogan isn’t the only Venice resident who is fed up with the homelessness.
Hunter Biden’s former neighbors in Venice, California, are outraged that their neighborhood has turned into a ‘tent city’ since he left
DailyMail.com revealed last month that Hunter Biden moved out of a $25,000-per-month rented canal-front home in Venice.
The First Son’s trendy digs came with a 24-hour Secret Service protection, and mysteriously coincided with the disappearance of any homeless encampments from the street, neighbors said.
But since Hunter up and moved to Malibu, a ‘tent city’ of homeless people camping out on the sidewalk has sprung up again, prompting outrage among residents.
Tents, umbrellas, trash bags, camping chairs, blankets and shopping carts were seen piled up, filling the width of the sidewalk and stretching down the Venice street where Hunter’s former home sits.
His former neighbors are now incensed that their street has turned into a ‘tent city’ since he left – with no more Secret Service agents to move homeless people along.
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