“We call it Billionaires’ Row, because you almost have to be a billionaire, or close to it, to be able to afford one of these amazing luxury estates,” Choo says of the home, which is on South Mapleton Drive. Living room with Palladian windows and French marble fireplace
The property is located in the most chic part of Holmby Hills, nestled up against Bel Air (where the Playboy mansion just sold for $105 million). The former Spelling mansion, which heiress Petra Ecclestone purchased in 2011 for a reported $150 million, is right up the street. Wait a minute … a $35 million tear-down? What gives? Aerial viewĪs with most things in real estate, it’s all about location, location, location. Reading between the lines, he’s almost dubbing it a tear-down.
PoolĪnd although it’s an architectural classic with a cinematic pedigree, it’s being marketed as an “opportunity to build your own dream estate and design whatever you want, or reconfigure this existing 1930s traditional Colonial-style home,” says listing agent Christophe Choo of Christophe Choo Luxury Real Estate. The six bedrooms and five bathrooms on the 1.66-acre lot have remained pretty much the same. The pool area hasn’t changed much since 1939, when it was built for prominent filmmaker Allan Dwan, who founded one of the first motion picture studios in Los Angeles and directed Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, among many other cinema stars of the era.įor that matter, the entire house-with its Palladian mirrors and windows, french doors, antique marble fireplace, rolling lawns, and full-size tennis court-hasn’t changed much at all.
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