Bruce Lee’s Former Home in Hong Kong Faces an Uncertain Future

Until recently, the home was being used as a seedy love motel, renting out rooms by the hour

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 REUTERS/Bobby Yip (CHINA - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT ANNIVERSARY) - RTX11Q5K
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Until his sudden death in Hong Kong in 1973, at the age of 32, martial-arts icon Bruce Lee lived in Kowloon Tong or “Nine Dragon’s Pond”— a quiet neighborhood on the Kowloon peninsula. He inhabited a property that is modest looking by international standards but in densely populated Hong Kong, where land is at a premium, is considered positively palatial, tucked away in an affluent part of town, inland from the lights of the island’s dazzling skyline.

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