Biltmore Plaza

The stately Biltmore hotel and office complex in downtown Los Angeles is being sold for a reported $219 million to Japanese investors, it was revealed Monday. Biltmore Partners, a limited partnership, agreed to sell the Biltmore Plaza to T.A.T. Los Angeles Ltd., a partnership that real estate sources say is composed of two large, low-profile Japanese companies that own more than $1 billion worth of properties in Hawaii and California.

The stately Biltmore hotel and office complex in downtown Los Angeles is being sold for a reported $219 million to Japanese investors, it was revealed Monday. Biltmore Partners, a limited partnership, agreed to sell the Biltmore Plaza to T.A.T. Los Angeles Ltd., a partnership that real estate sources say is composed of two large, low-profile Japanese companies that own more than $1 billion worth of properties in Hawaii and California.

FBI agents arrested two top members of New England's organized crime families this morning as part of a three-state dragnet targeting 21 suspected mobsters on a total of 113 criminal counts.

Claus von Bulow's former mistress, Alexandra Isles, flew back from Europe on Monday, just one day before the prosecution's deadline for producing her to testify at his retrial for attempted murder. Isles, who testified at the first trial that she gave Von Bulow an ultimatum for leaving his wife to marry her, arrived at Boston's Logan International Airport on a flight that had originated in Frankfurt, West Germany, and had stopped in London.