Before the Hollywood sign was cordoned off by an elaborate security system in 1994, it was relatively easy to scurry up the hillside and alter those nine letters to send a different sort of message.

By Arlene Washington The year 2017 is already starting on a high note. The famed Hollywood sign was vandalized early Sunday morning to read “Hollyweed.” In an apparent New Year’s prank ...

Shelby Grad, an editor with the Los Angeles Times, tweeted out a brief history of the Hollywood sign being vandalized, noting that this is not the first time the letters have been changed to read ...

HOLLYWOOD — Someone has managed to modify the famed Hollywood sign to read “Hollyweed ... been targeted in a possible prank or act of vandalism. Danny Finegood, who passed away in 2007 ...

The Hollywood sign is an American landmark that’s come to symbolize glamour and the larger-than-life entertainment business. While it was erected in 1923, it’s seen many changes over the years ...

Subsequently, under the governance of the 1978 established Hollywood Sign Trust, the looming letters have been painted, secured, vandalized, fenced in and transformed for local commemorations like ...

The Hollywood sign is LA's monument to the entertainment ... And people could get up to the sign a lot easier back then. So a lot of vandalism and crazy things went on up there, especially in ...

Betsy Isroelit with the Hollywood Sign Trust told CNN that the last time the sign was vandalized to read “Hollyweed” was in 1976. This is not the first time the Hollywood Sign became the ...