Alfredo De La Vega

Alfredo De La Vega (born 1911–1912 in Los Angeles, died September 24, 1987, in West Hollywood, California) was a wealthy businessman, real estate manager and frequent host of Hollywood celebrities.[1]

The La Fontaine Building in West Hollywood

He was born in Hancock Park, the son of a prominent Mexican family which socialized with the families of many motion picture stars. Starting off in business in the insurance industry, where he worked for many years, De La Vega later owned a number of large apartment buildings and ran them through his own company.

Residing in one of them, the La Fontaine building at Crescent Heights and Fountain in West Hollywood, De La Vega was known in social circles for his extravagant dinner parties in his apartment there.

At age 75, De La Vega was killed there while an assistant listened via intercom from the building's basement office of De La Vega Management Company. Police reported that he had been shot at least twice in the abdomen and that a small revolver was found near the body.[2]

Another assistant said the door of De La Vega's large apartment was open, left thus by a houseboy and an overnight guest who left at 9:30 a.m.

According to TV sleuth Dominick Dunne, who knew De La Vega and was familiar with the scene of his death, it must have been a homicide.[3]

  1. ^ Article by G. Luther Whitington UPI 1987-09-25
  2. ^ Article by Jack Jones & Carol McGraw in Los Angeles Times 1987-09-26
  3. ^ Article by Karin Winegar in Tampa Bay Times 2005-10-17