Ozzy Osbourne puts his Hancock Park mansion in Los Angeles up for sale for $ 18 million and leaves the United States .
The 73-year-old rocker, British by birth but Californian by adoption, has decided to bring home because he is "disgusted" by the escalation of gun violence that plagues the United States.
"I am English. I want to go back home. I don't want to die here and be buried in the fucking Forest Lawn, ”said the former heavy metal king referring to the Los Angeles star cemetery. Determined to start a new chapter with his wife Sharon after spending two decades in the Golden State, the former Black Sabbath frontman later confided to the Observer that he is sick of seeing people killed every day.
“ God knows how many people died in school shootings . And then there was the mass shooting at the concert in Las Vegas. It's crazy, ”he said. "America has changed drastically, it is no longer the United States, there is no longer anything that unites ".
There were 440 mass shootings in the US in 2022 according to the latest statistics from the Gun Violence Archive. The one in Las Vegas to which Osbourne refers dates back to 2017, 58 people were killed.
Once back in Britain, the couple will settle down on the gigantic estate they already own in Buckinghamshire. Once considered indestructible after surviving years of alcohol and drug abuse, Osblourne recently had serious health problems: in 2019 he was diagnosed with Parkinson 's making him unsteady on his legs and this was possibly the cause of a ruinous fall in the bathroom in January of that year. And then two staph infections in one hand, depression, emboli, surgery due to falls.
(Unioneonline / L)