Salina Journal
July 12, 1981
Because I like my privacy, that’s why,” the divine Bette Midler yelped at a neighbor.
Bette reportedly paid (950,000 for her cottage in the northern tip of Beverly Hills and will sink another half a million into renovations, much of which will be designed to turn the house into a hideaway.
It’s all a far cry from the one-bedroom flat she once had in New York’s Greenwich Village, where the landlord used to turn off the hot water.