Tags similar to those on Los Angeles' iconic graffiti towers have appeared in another unlikely place in the City of Angels: Hollywood Hills mansions.

Property records show the mansions belong to a TV and film producer who city officials say has only recently responded to notices about the problem.

Producer John Powers Middleton, whose father owns the Philadelphia Phillies, apologized to his neighbors for his abandoned mansions.

It took a barrage of news about his graffiti-slathered mansions to compel producer John Powers Middleton to pipe up about their slow demise in the Hollywood Hills . The son of the billionaire owner of the Philadelphia Phillies issued a formal apology to his neighbors and the City of Los Angeles after complaints surfaced about the seemingly abandoned properties,