Editing Bruce Lee (section)

== Personal life ==

=== Names ===
Lee's [[Cantonese people|Cantonese]] birth name was ''[[Li (surname 李)|Lee]] Jun-fan'' ({{lang|zh|李振藩}}).<ref name="Bio-TBLS">振藩; Mandarin [[Pinyin]]: Zhènfán {{harvnb|Lee|1989}}</ref> The name homophonically means "return again", and was given to Lee by his mother, who felt he would return to the United States once he came of age.<ref name="TheBruceLeeStory20">{{harvnb|Lee|1989|p=20}}</ref> Because of his mother's superstitious nature, she had originally named him ''Sai-fon'' ({{lang|zh|細鳳}}), which is a feminine name meaning "small [[Phoenix (mythology)|phoenix]]".<ref name="Bruce Lee 2002">Bruce Lee: the immortal Dragon, January 29, 2002, A&E Television Networks</ref> The English name "Bruce" is thought to have been given by the hospital's attending physician, Dr. Mary Glover.<ref name="Bio-BLTUS">{{cite book |title=Bruce Lee The Untold Story |last=Lee |first=Grace |publisher=CFW Enterprise |year=1980 |location=United States}}</ref>

Lee had three other Chinese names: Lee Yuen-cham ({{lang|zh|李源鑫}}), a family/clan name; Lee Yuen-kam ({{lang|zh|李元鑒}}), which he used as a student name while he was attending [[La Salle College]], and his Chinese screen name Lee Siu-lung ({{lang|zh|李小龍}}; ''Siu-lung'' means "little dragon").{{citation needed|date=November 2019}} Lee's given name Jun-fan was originally written in Chinese as {{lang|zh|震藩}}; however, the ''Jun'' ({{lang|zh|震}}) [[Chinese character]] was identical to part of his grandfather's name, Lee Jun-biu ({{lang|zh|李震彪}}).{{citation needed|date=November 2019}} Hence, the Chinese character for ''Jun'' in Lee's name was changed to the [[homonym]] {{lang|zh|振}} instead, to avoid [[naming taboo]] in Chinese tradition.{{citation needed|date=November 2019}}

=== Family ===
Lee's father, [[Lee Hoi-chuen]], was one of the leading [[Cantonese opera]] and film actors at the time and was embarking on a year-long opera tour with his family on the eve of the [[Battle of Hong Kong|Japanese invasion of Hong Kong]]. Lee Hoi-chuen had been touring the United States for many years and performing in numerous Chinese communities there.{{citation needed|date=July 2024}}

Although many of his peers decided to stay in the US, Lee Hoi-chuen returned to Hong Kong after Bruce's birth. Within months, Hong Kong was invaded and the Lees lived for three years and eight months under [[Japanese occupation of Hong Kong|Japanese occupation]]. After the war ended, Lee Hoi-chuen resumed his acting career and became a more popular actor during Hong Kong's rebuilding years.{{citation needed|date=July 2024}}

Lee's mother, Grace Ho, was from one of the wealthiest and most powerful clans in Hong Kong, the Ho-tungs. She was the half-niece of [[Robert Hotung|Sir Robert Ho-tung]],<ref name="People's Republic of China">{{cite web |url=http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/ce/Museum/Monument/form/147meeting/AAB-46%20Annex%20B.pdf |title=Kom Tong Hall at 7 Castle Road, Mid-levels, Hong Kong |publisher=People's Republic of China|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612034159/http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/ce/Museum/Monument/form/147meeting/AAB-46%20Annex%20B.pdf|archive-date=June 12, 2011|access-date=September 12, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/Museum/History/en/pspecial_8.php |title=Kom Tong Hall and the Dr Sun Yat-sen Museum |date=January 10, 2005 |publisher=People's Republic of China|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100818100840/http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/Museum/History/en/pspecial_8.php|archive-date=August 18, 2010|access-date=September 12, 2010}}</ref> the Eurasian patriarch of the clan. As such, the young Bruce Lee grew up in an affluent and privileged environment. Despite the advantage of his family's status, the neighborhood in which Lee grew up became overcrowded, dangerous, and full of gang rivalries due to an influx of refugees fleeing [[China|communist China]] for Hong Kong, at that time a British [[Crown Colony]].<ref name="Bruce Lee 2002" />

Grace Ho is reported as either the adopted or biological daughter of Ho Kom-tong (Ho Gumtong, {{lang|zh|何甘棠}}) and the half-niece of [[Robert Hotung|Sir Robert Ho-tung]], both notable Hong Kong businessmen and philanthropists.<ref name="People's Republic of China" /> Bruce was the fourth of five children: Phoebe Lee ({{lang|zh|李秋源}}), Agnes Lee ({{lang|zh|李秋鳳}}), [[Peter Lee Jung-sum|Peter Lee]], and [[Robert Lee Jun-fai|Robert Lee]].{{citation needed|date=July 2024}}

[[File:Bruce Lee - son.jpg|thumb|upright|Bruce Lee with his son Brandon in 1966|alt=|right]]
Grace's parentage remains unclear. Linda Lee, in her 1989 biography ''The Bruce Lee Story'', suggests that Grace had a German father and was a Catholic.<ref name="harvnb|Lee|1989" /> Bruce Thomas, in his 1994 biography ''Bruce Lee: Fighting Spirit'', suggests that Grace had a Chinese mother and a German father.<ref name="Thomas1994page3">{{cite book |author=Bruce Thomas |url=https://archive.org/details/bruceleefighting0000thom_d0z5 |title=Bruce Lee: Fighting Spirit : a Biography |publisher=Frog Books |year=1994 |isbn=978-1-883319-25-0 |page=3}}</ref> Lee's relative Eric Peter Ho, in his 2010 book ''Tracing My Children's Lineage'', suggests that Grace was born in Shanghai to a Eurasian woman named Cheung King-sin.<ref name="Russo" /> Eric Peter Ho said that Grace Lee was the daughter of a mixed-race Shanghainese woman and her father was Ho Kom Tong. Grace Lee herself reported that her mother was English and her father was Chinese.<ref name="Russo">{{cite news |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/was-bruce-lee-of-english-descent/ |title=Was Bruce Lee of English Descent? |last=Russo |first=Charles |date=May 18, 2016 |work=VICE Fightland|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161025083142/http://fightland.vice.com/blog/was-bruce-lee-of-english-descent|archive-date=October 25, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S0MuDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA50 |title=Striking Distance: Bruce Lee and the Dawn of Martial Arts in America |last=Russo |first=Charles |publisher=U of Nebraska Press |year=2016 |isbn=978-0-8032-9051-8 |edition=reprint |page=50|access-date=May 23, 2018|archive-date=April 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190406011831/https://books.google.com/books?id=S0MuDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA50|url-status=live}}</ref> Fredda Dudley Balling said Grace Lee was three-quarters Chinese and one-quarter British.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o7iHCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA36 |title=Words of the Dragon: Interviews, 1958–1973 |last=Balling |first=Fredda Dudley |date=2017 |publisher=Tuttle Publishing |isbn=978-1-4629-1787-7|editor-last=Little|editor-first=John |page=35|access-date=May 23, 2018|archive-date=April 5, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190405114550/https://books.google.com/books?id=o7iHCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA36|url-status=live}}</ref>

In the 2018 biography ''Bruce Lee: A Life'', [[Matthew Polly]] identifies Lee's maternal grandfather as Ho Kom-tong, who had often been reported as his adoptive grandfather. Ho Kom-tong's father, Charles Maurice Bosman,<ref>[[Geneanet]], [https://gw.geneanet.org/tdowling?lang=en&pz=timothy+michael&nz=dowling&p=charles+henry+maurice&n=bosman Charles Henry Maurice Bosman] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221118064810/https://gw.geneanet.org/tdowling?lang=en&pz=timothy+michael&nz=dowling&p=charles+henry+maurice&n=bosman |date=November 18, 2022 }}, accessed May 1, 2021</ref> was a Dutch Jewish businessman from [[Rotterdam]].{{sfn|Polly|2018|pp=12–15}} He moved to Hong Kong with the [[Dutch East India Company]] and served as the Dutch consul to Hong Kong at one time. He had a Chinese concubine named Sze Tai with whom he had six children, including Ho Kom Tong. Bosman subsequently abandoned his family and immigrated to California.{{sfn|Polly|2018|p=12}} Ho Kom Tong became a wealthy businessman with a wife, 13&nbsp;concubines, and a British mistress who gave birth to Grace Ho.{{sfn|Polly|2018|p=13}}<ref name="LeibovitzJewish">{{cite magazine |last1=Leibovitz |first1=Liel |date=June 1, 2018 |title=Bruce Lee Was Jewish! |url=http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/263301/bruce-lee-was-jewish |magazine=[[Tablet (magazine)|Tablet]]|access-date=June 5, 2018|archive-date=June 15, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180615190559/http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/263301/bruce-lee-was-jewish|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="RogovoyJewiish">{{cite news |url=https://forward.com/culture/402501/wait-bruce-lee-was-jewish/ |title=Wait, Bruce Lee Was Jewish? |last1=Rogovoy |first1=Seth |date=June 5, 2018|access-date=June 6, 2018 |publisher=[[The Forward]]|archive-date=June 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180614140307/https://forward.com/culture/402501/wait-bruce-lee-was-jewish/|url-status=live}}</ref>

His younger brother [[Robert Lee Jun-fai]] is a musician and singer; he performed in the Hong Kong group The Thunderbirds.<ref>Web UK Online, Bruce Lee Articles [http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ray.d8/article2.html In The Shadow Of A Legend – Robert Lee Remembers Bruce Lee by Steve Rubinstein] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090330130557/http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ray.d8/article2.html|date=March 30, 2009}}</ref><ref>Trans World 60's Punk [http://60spunk.m78.com/hongkong.html Hong Kong 60s Re-capture] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070307120021/http://60spunk.m78.com/hongkong.html |date=March 7, 2007 }}</ref><ref>Tofu [https://archive.today/2012.09.14-171316/http://www.tofu-magazine.net/newVersion/pages/gogo.html An introduction to the music scene which flourished in Hong Kong, Macau and Singapore in 1964–1969] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221118064802/https://archive.today/2012.09.14-171316/http://www.tofu-magazine.net/newVersion/pages/gogo.html |date=November 18, 2022 }}</ref> A few singles were sung mostly or all in English. Also released was Lee singing a duet with [[Irene Ryder]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://mypaper.pchome.com.tw/news/chrishui/3/1270821034/20060628223210/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117212928/https://www.pchome.com.tw/?ref=mypaper|url-status=dead|title=Robert Lee – The Thunderbirds|archivedate=November 17, 2020}}</ref> Lee Jun-fai lived with Lee in Los Angeles in the United States and stayed. After Lee's death, Lee Jun-fai released an album and a single by the same name dedicated to Lee called "The Ballad of Bruce Lee".<ref>EAMS Compilation Projekt [http://eamscompilationprojekt.blogspot.com/2008_08_01_archive.html EAMS Compilation Vol. 20 – Rare Raritäten] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180807001711/http://eamscompilationprojekt.blogspot.com/2008_08_01_archive.html |date=August 7, 2018 }}</ref>

While studying at the [[University of Washington]] he met his future wife [[Linda Emery]], a fellow student studying to become a teacher. As relations between [[Anti-miscegenation laws|people of different races were still banned]] in many US states, they married in secret in August 1964.{{sfn|Polly|2018|p=140}} Lee had two children with Linda: [[Brandon Lee|Brandon]] (1965–1993) and [[Shannon Lee]] (born 1969). Upon's Lee passing in 1973, she continued to promote Bruce Lee's martial art Jeet Kune Do. She wrote the 1975 book ''[[Bruce Lee: The Man Only I Knew]]'', on which the 1993 feature film ''[[Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story]]'' was based.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-10-25-ca-1095-story.html |title=ON LOCATION : Re-Enter the Dragon : A film biography of kung fu king Bruce Lee, who died almost 20 years ago, weaves martial arts action with an interracial love story |date=October 25, 1992 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US|access-date=November 15, 2019|archive-date=August 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806135438/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-10-25-ca-1095-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1989, she wrote the book ''The Bruce Lee Story.'' She retired in 2001 from the family estate.{{citation needed|date=July 2024}}

Lee died when his son Brandon was eight years old. While alive, Lee taught Brandon martial arts and would invite him to visit sets. This gave Brandon the desire to act and he went on to study the craft. As a young adult, Brandon Lee found some success acting in action-oriented pictures such as ''[[Legacy of Rage]]'' (1986), ''[[Showdown in Little Tokyo]]'' (1991), and [[Rapid Fire (1992 film)|''Rapid Fire'']] (1992). In 1993, at the age of 28, Brandon Lee died after being accidentally shot by a prop gun on the set of [[The Crow (1994 film)|''The Crow'']].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jensen |first=Erin |title=The tragic true story of how Brandon Lee died on 'The Crow' movie set in 1993 |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2024/08/23/the-crow-1994-brandon-lee-death-explained/74858461007/ |access-date=2025-04-04 |website=USA TODAY |language=en-US}}</ref>

Lee died when his daughter Shannon was four. In her youth she studied [[Jeet Kune Do]] under [[Richard Bustillo]], one of her father's students; however, her serious studies did not begin until the late 1990s. To train for parts in action movies, she studied Jeet Kune Do with [[Ted Wong]].<ref name="BB1999">{{cite journal |last=Reid |first=Dr. Craig D. |year=1999 |title=Shannon Lee: Emerging From the Shadows of Bruce Lee, the Butterfly Spreads her Wings |journal=Black Belt |volume=37 |issue=10 |page=33}}</ref>

=== Friends, students, and contemporaries ===
Lee's brother [[Robert Lee Jun-fai|Robert]] with his friends [[Taky Kimura]], [[Dan Inosanto]], [[Steve McQueen]], [[James Coburn]], and Peter Chin were his pallbearers.<ref name="auto1">{{cite web |title=Lee, Bruce (1940–1973), Martial Arts Master and Film Maker |url=http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3999 |website=www.historylink.org|access-date=July 22, 2016|archive-date=August 25, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160825221754/http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3999|url-status=live}}</ref> Coburn was a martial arts student and a friend of Lee. Coburn worked with Lee and [[Stirling Silliphant]] on developing ''The Silent Flute.'' Upon Lee's early death, at his funeral, Coburn gave a eulogy.<ref name="auto1" /> Regarding McQueen, Lee made no secret that he wanted everything McQueen had and would stop at nothing to get it.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Steve McQueen and Bruce Lee: Inside Their Hollywood Rivalry |url=https://www.closerweekly.com/posts/steve-mcqueen-bruce-lee-163809/ |date=March 5, 2019 |website=Closer Weekly |language=en-US|access-date=November 3, 2019|archive-date=November 3, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191103012337/https://www.closerweekly.com/posts/steve-mcqueen-bruce-lee-163809/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="bruce">{{cite web |title=Lee, Bruce (1940–1973), Martial Arts Master and Film Maker |url=http://www.historylink.org/File/3999// |last=Burrows |first=Alyssa |date=October 21, 2002 |publisher=History Link.org|access-date=April 15, 2017|archive-date=July 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180709222216/http://www.historylink.org/File/3999|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Matthew Polly: 'Bruce Lee Wanted To Be The Next Clint Eastwood' |url=https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2018/06/11/bruce-lee-matthew-polly-clint-eastwood-steve-mcqueen/ |date=June 11, 2018 |language=en-US|access-date=November 3, 2019|archive-date=November 3, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191103012336/https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2018/06/11/bruce-lee-matthew-polly-clint-eastwood-steve-mcqueen/|url-status=live}}</ref> Inosanto and Kimura were friends and disciples of Lee. Inosanto who would go on to train Lee's son [[Brandon Lee|Brandon]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=May 30, 1993 |title=Family Matters |work=The Age}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Tucci |first=Rick |year=1994 |title=Dan Inosanto Returns to Black Belt |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G9IDAAAAMBAJ&q=Bruce+Lee+interview+black+belt+magazine&pg=PA42 |magazine=Black Belt Magazine |volume=33 |issue=8 |pages=42–43–44–45–48–140–141|access-date=November 4, 2020|archive-date=November 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117212857/https://books.google.com/books?id=G9IDAAAAMBAJ&q=Bruce+Lee+interview+black+belt+magazine&pg=PA42|url-status=live}}</ref> Kimura continued to teach Lee's craft in [[Seattle]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lyke |first=M.L. |date=June 4, 1995 |title=Visitors leave objects of devotion on graves of Bruce Lee and son |page=E – 6}}</ref> According to [[Linda Lee Cadwell|Lee's wife]], Chin was a lifelong family friend and a student of Lee.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Lee |first1=Linda |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2NAuMRjSUSIC&q=peter+chin&pg=PA181 |title=The Bruce Lee Story |last2=Lee |first2=Mike |date=1989 |publisher=Black Belt Communications |isbn=978-0-89750-121-7 |page=75 and 181 |language=en|access-date=November 4, 2020|archive-date=November 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117212857/https://books.google.com/books?id=2NAuMRjSUSIC&q=peter+chin&pg=PA181|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[James Yimm Lee]] (no relation) was one of Lee's three personally certified 3rd rank instructors and co-founded the Jun Fan Gung Fu Institute in [[Oakland]] where he taught Jun Fan Gung Fu in Lee's absence. James was responsible for introducing Lee to [[Ed Parker]], the organizer of the [[Long Beach International Karate Championships]], where Lee was first introduced to the martial arts community.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Meet James Yimm Lee: "The Man Who Helped Make Bruce Lee A Success" {{!}} Black Belt Magazine|url=https://blackbeltmag.com/arts/chinese-arts/meet-james-yimm-lee-the-man-who-helped-make-bruce-lee-a-success|date=April 21, 2014|website=blackbeltmag.com|language=en|access-date=November 20, 2019|archive-date=July 29, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190729192243/https://blackbeltmag.com/arts/chinese-arts/meet-james-yimm-lee-the-man-who-helped-make-bruce-lee-a-success|url-status=live}}</ref> Hollywood couple [[Roman Polański]] and [[Sharon Tate]] studied martial arts with Lee. Polański flew Lee to [[Switzerland]] to train him. Tate studied with Lee in preparation for her role in [[The Wrecking Crew (1968 film)|''The Wrecking Crew'']]. After Tate was murdered by the [[Manson Family]], Polański initially suspected Lee.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The True Story Behind Bruce Lee's 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' Character |url=https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a28414367/roman-polanski-bruce-lee-killed-sharon-tate-true-story-once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood/ |date=July 24, 2019|access-date=July 25, 2019|archive-date=July 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727044328/https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a28414367/roman-polanski-bruce-lee-killed-sharon-tate-true-story-once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Screenwriter [[Stirling Silliphant]] was a martial arts student and a friend of Lee.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Haber |first=Joyce |date=March 6, 1970 |title=All in all it proved a bad day for actor Rex Reed |work=Arizona Republic}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=The 'new Yellow Peril': How U.S. film critics reviewed Bruce Lee movies in his day |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/07/31/the-new-yellow-peril-how-u-s-film-critics-reviewed-bruce-lee-movies-in-his-day/ |first1=Herman |last1=Wong |newspaper=Washington Post |language=en|access-date=November 18, 2019|archive-date=November 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117212912/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/07/31/the-new-yellow-peril-how-u-s-film-critics-reviewed-bruce-lee-movies-in-his-day/|url-status=live}}</ref> Silliphant worked with Lee and [[James Coburn]] on developing ''The Silent Flute.''<ref>{{Cite news |date=January 23, 1971 |title=Teen Scene Giving Karate a Chop |work=The Kingston Daily Freeman |volume=C}}</ref> Lee acted and provided his martial arts expertise in several projects penned by Silliphant, the first in [[Marlowe (1969 film)|''Marlowe'']] (1969) where Lee plays Winslow Wong a hoodlum well-versed in martial arts. Lee also did fight choreographies for the film ''[[A Walk in the Spring Rain]]'' (1970) and played Li Tsung, a [[Jeet Kune Do]] instructor who teaches the main character in the television show ''[[Longstreet (TV series)|Longstreet]]'' (1971). Elements of his martial arts philosophy were included in the script for the latter.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4" /><ref name=":2" /><ref name=":5" /><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":6" />

Basketball player [[Kareem Abdul-Jabbar]] studied martial arts and developed a friendship with Lee.<ref name=":2" />

Actor and karate champion [[Chuck Norris]] was a friend and training partner of Lee's.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Blank |first=Ed |date=April 3, 1983 |title=King Of The Good Guys |work=The Pittsburgh Press |volume=99}}</ref> After Lee's death, Norris said he kept in touch with Lee's family.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Murray |first=Steve |date=May 3, 1993 |title=Actor's new kick: family values |work=The Atlanta Constitution}}</ref>

Judoka and [[professional wrestler]] [[Gene LeBell]] became a friend of Lee on the set of ''The Green Hornet''. They trained together and exchanged their knowledge of martial arts.{{sfn|Polly|2018|pp=187}}{{sfn|Thomas|1994|pp=77}}

=== Drug use ===
In July 2021 a private collection of over 40 handwritten letters Lee made to fellow ''Fist of Fury'' actor Robert "Bob" Baker was sold for $462,500 at Heritage Auctions. These letters were written from 1967 to 1973 and included requests by Lee for Baker to mail him cocaine, pain killers, psilocybin and other drugs for his personal use.<ref>{{cite web |title=Bruce Lee's Handwritten Letters, Chronicling His Rise to Superstardom Amidst the Drug Culture Bring $462,500 at Heritage Auctions |url=https://entertainment.ha.com/heritage-auctions-press-releases-and-news/bruce-lee-s-handwritten-letters-chronicling-his-rise-to-superstardom-amidst-the-drug-culture-bring-462-500-at-heritage-auctions.s?releaseId=4248 |website=Heritage Auctions |date=July 17, 2021 | access-date = April 18, 2024 | archive-date = April 18, 2024 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20240418093552/https://entertainment.ha.com/heritage-auctions-press-releases-and-news/bruce-lee-s-handwritten-letters-chronicling-his-rise-to-superstardom-amidst-the-drug-culture-bring-462-500-at-heritage-auctions.s?releaseId=4248 | url-status = live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/society/article/enemy-bruce-lee-couldnt-kick-his-drug-habit-fhjsps3pw |title=Enemy Bruce Lee couldn't kick: His drug habit |last1=Humphries |first1=Will | access-date=April 20, 2024 | archive-date=May 23, 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240523004550/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/enemy-bruce-lee-couldnt-kick-his-drug-habit-fhjsps3pw | url-status=live}}</ref>