Beastie Boy Mike D Snags Venice Architectural (www.dirt.com)

Although the deal actually closed well over a year ago, it’s only now become known that the previously unreported buyer who paid $3.2 million for a towering architectural home along Venice’s coveted walk streets was iconic musician Michael Diamond — better known to scores of ’90s rap aficionados and Beastie Boys fans as Manhattan native Mike D, one of the genre-defining group’s founding members.

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