The discovery comes just one month after Cullors disavowed ever living at the property, which the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation bought with donor cash in October 2020. She used it for personal gain. Both allegations have since been contradicted by Cullors’s statements.
Cullors said she hosted a party for 15 people at the mansion in January 2021 to celebrate President Joe Biden’s inauguration. Cullors said the party occurred while she lived at the compound for four days as the FBI probed the life threats she received.
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Two months later, in March, Cullors said she hosted a private birthday party for her son.
“I look back at that and think, that probably wasn’t the best idea,” Cullors said of the private parties she hosted at BLM’s mansion.
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BLM said it called Cullors a “rental fee” for using the property for her son’s birthday party, which Cullors said she meant to pay back to the charity.
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It’s unclear when BLM billed Cullors for her private use of the property and how much. Nor is it apparent if BLM has let anyone other than Cullors host private parties at its mansion.
BLM and Cullors did not return requests for comment.
Moreover, it’s unclear if BLM billed Cullors for using the property for at least two videos uploaded to her personal YouTube channel.
In an April 2021 video, Cullors filmed herself baking a peach cobbler in the mansion’s kitchen. Later that May, when Cullors resigned as BLM’s executive director, Cullors uploaded a video of her and two other BLM leaders sipping wine on the mansion’s patio railing against critics of her personal real estate purchases.
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A watchdog group filed an IRS complaint in April seeking civil or criminal penalties for Cullors for her “highly unusual” alleged use of BLM’s mansion for her personal benefit.
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“Enough is enough,” said Paul Kamenar, the lawyer who drafted the complaint for the National Legal and Policy Center. “The IRS owes the public and supporters of Black Lives Matter a full investigation of the group’s finances, management, and cover-up of the use of its $6 million LA mansion by Patrisse Cullors, even if she thinks compliance with IRS disclosure rules is ‘triggering’ and causes her and her associates’ trauma.’” Cullors said on April 5 that BLM hid its purchase of the mansion from the public for 19 months because it “needed repairs and renovation.”
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