Bruce Lee’s last home to become a museum

HONG KONG (Reuters) - The billionaire owner of Bruce Lee’s final home hopes to build a museum to the martial arts legend, giving in to public calls to prevent the sale of the luxury house in a northern Hong Kong suburb for millions of dollars.

Philanthropist hotel and real estate tycoon Yu Panglin, 86, had put Lee’s two-storey, 5,699 square-foot town house in an upscale, leafy Kowloon suburb up for sale but changed his mind, giving in to fans’ desire for the site to be preserved.

Yu told reporters on Monday he would donate the property to Hong Kong’s government for use as a museum, unveiling a plan to expand the site into a memorial to a global icon. He would also raise capital for the site and all future profits would go to charity.

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