Oklahoma City-based Feed The Children charity owns Burbank home
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The Oklahoman A charity known for its heart-wrenching appeals for funds to feed starving children spent $1.2 million in donations on a house a few miles from Hollywood, an investigation by The Oklahoman found. Feed The Children, an Oklahoma City-based Christian relief organization, bought the new four-bedroom house in Burbank, Calif., in May 2007, records show. The daughter of the charity’s president then moved in, records show. The daughter, Larri Sue Jones, 43, told police after a December break-in that Feed The Children owns the house but "since her parents founded the organization, she was given the residence to live in,” according to a police report. The home’s existence came to light during the legal fight for control of the charity, which reports raising more than $1 billion in cash and gifts a year. The charity says it supplements more than 760,000 meals a day. Feed The Children President Larry Jones said the house was bought "to start an operation on the West Coast to reach out to celebrities.” He called it a combination residence and office. "I have no regrets,” Larry Jones said in a statement given to The Oklahoman before he left on a trip to Africa. "The relationship forged with several celebrities who embrace our mission at Feed The Children has made it possible to feed more children,” he wrote. "Celebrities open doors for us to raise in-kind and monetary gifts.” Larry Jones said his daughter "lived and worked out of the house as intended.”
‘It’s not necessary’
The daughter is a vice president and an attorney for the charity. She has been at odds with her father during the legal fight.
"It was much more economical and, frankly, a better use of funds to buy a house than try to rent or buy an office as well as a house,” Larry Jones said.
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