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   It’s not like West Hollywood hasn’t had its scandals. As Bob   
   Bishop, a regular contributor to WEHOville, has reported, there   
   was the murder of Sal Mineo in 1976 in the alley behind his   
   apartment at 8569 Holloway Drive, the still unsolved stabbing   
   death on Lloyd Place in 1977 of young actress Christa Helm, who   
   had a number of high-profile lovers, including the Shah of Iran,   
   and the 1982 strangling of another young actress, Dominique   
   Dunn, daughter of crime writer Dominick Dunne, in the driveway   
   of her home at 8723 Rangely Ave. by her estranged boyfriend.   
      
   Jump ahead and there was the May 2016 murder at 8530 Holloway   
   Drive of Iana Kasian by her boyfriend, the wealthy young Blake   
   Leibel, which Dr. James Ribe of the L.A. County Coroner’s Office   
   said may have been the most gruesome murder in the history of   
   Los Angeles. And then there was the March 2014 murder at 939   
   Palm Ave. of Kurtland Ma, a 34-year-old physician, by his   
   boyfriend, Andre Davids, who “disemboweled” Ma and stuffed some   
   of his organs, including his penis, into his mouth. That was   
   followed weeks later by the shooting death at the same apartment   
   building of one innocent young man and the severe wounding of   
   another by a Sheriff’s deputy who remains on duty at the West   
   Hollywood Station and whose discipline, if any, L.A. County   
   Sheriff Alex Villanueva has refused for eight months to disclose   
   to WEHOville despite that being required by law.   
      
   Then there have been the allegations of sexual misbehavior by   
   City Councilmember John Duran, ranging from a claim of sexual   
   harassment by his former City Hall deputy Ian Owens in 2015,   
   which the city settled with a $500,000 payout, to more recent   
   claims by four young members of the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los   
   Angeles, whose board Duran once chaired. The City Council   
   censured Duran after he made public statements bragging that he   
   had a more active sex life than his fellow Council members and   
   after a number of LGBT organizations, including Stonewall   
   Democrats and Christopher Street West, condemned him for his   
   behavior.   
      
   But the arrest on Tuesday (and the federal indictment on   
   Thursday) of Ed Buck looks likely to have a bigger impact on the   
   City of West Hollywood. Like the Duran scandal, that arrest has   
   been in the news across the nation, with newspapers such as The   
   New York Times and the Washington Post reporting it as well as   
   all of the major television networks, but it also has elements   
   of alleged racism and political favoritism.   
      
   Before the death from a drug overdose of 26-year-old Gemmel   
   Moore in his apartment in 2017, Buck was best known for his   
   successful campaign to have controversial Arizona Gov. Evan   
   Meacham impeached in 1988, for his advocacy for animal rights,   
   for his financial support of Democratic Party candidates, for   
   his own failed run in 2007 for a seat on the West Hollywood City   
   Council, and for his successful campaign to get John D’Amico   
   elected to the Council in 2011 on a promise to push for a ban on   
   the sale of fur items in West Hollywood.   
      
   The charges filed against Buck, who is a white gay man, describe   
   crimes involving black gay men, most of them young, who Buck   
   allegedly paid to come to his apartment to engage in sex and use   
   drugs. (Allegations denied by his lawyer, Seymour Amster.) In   
   addition to Moore, “investigators have identified 10 additional   
   victims — nine of whom [Buck] administered drugs or strongly   
   encouraged them to ingest narcotics as part of agreements to be   
   compensated for sexual services,” U.S. Attorney Nick Hanna told   
   reporters Thursday. The federal complaint against Buck said   
   those men have said Buck paid them to use drugs and dress up in   
   white underwear for his sexual pleasure, something documented by   
   statements and shown in photographs published last year by   
   WEHOville.   
      
   Black men are a distinct minority in West Hollywood, with the   
   largest gathering of them in the past few years being at   
   protests outside Buck’s apartment building at 1234 N. Laurel   
   Ave. At several of those protests, black activists have claimed   
   that West Hollywood is racist because its leaders haven’t pushed   
   harder for Buck’s arrest and have taken campaign donations from   
   Buck. However, in January, shortly after the death by drug   
      
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