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what listing descriptions call a “saloon.”
There are a total of six en suite bedrooms
and eight bathrooms, including dual oceanfront
master suites. A 400-foot property
depth allows for a variety of features rare in
oceanfront homes in Malibu: off-street parking
for 10-plus cars; a full-sized, lighted tennis
court; and an ocean-side swimming pool.
An exterior corkscrew stairway stuck to the
backside of the house makes a convenient
if vertiginous three-story curl from a small
balcony on the top level to a large terrace
and soccer-pitch-sized lawn that gives way
to rolling dunes.
Adele Plunks Down $9.5m
for Don Mischer’s Manse
$9.5m
BEVERLY HILLS
6,600 SQ. FT.
4 BEDROOMS
6 BATHS
Thirteen-time Emmy-winning live-event producer
Don Mischer sold his long-time home
in a discreet if remarkably celeb-steeped
enclave tucked up into the mansion-dotted
mountains above Beverly Hills to 10-time
Grammy-winning British chanteuse Adele for
$9.5 million. Mischer, whose mile-long list
of impressive credits include several Super
Bowl halftime shows and President Obama’s
2009 inaugural celebration, purchased the
property in 1991 for $2 million and first
put the Dutch Colonial-style residence up
for sale in the fall of 2015 at $10.75 million.
Online marketing materials show that the
gated and not-quite-6,600-square-foot home
has four bedrooms and six bathrooms along
with a double-height entry, two formal living
rooms — both with fireplaces — a dining
room, an office with a built-in desk, and
a second-floor library loft with a vaulted
ceiling. The cook’s kitchen opens to a family
room with a bookshelf-flanked fireplace
and French doors that lead to a well-stocked
backyard with stone terraces, a swimming
pool, and a gazebo with a porch swing.
Should Adele invite her new neighbors
to a housewarming party, some of her guests
might include Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis;
Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem; Cameron
Diaz, who bought her compound from
Candice Bergen in 2010 for almost $9.5
million; and Zoe Saldana, the recent buyer
of a freshly rehabbed Colonial Revival
residence sold for $8.7 million and once
owned by Kimora Lee Simmons. Jennifer
Lawrence, one of Adele’s close gal pals,
owns a house just around the corner that
she bought in 2014 from ailing media
tycoon Sumner Redstone’s ludicrously younger
former-lady-friend Sydney Holland for a
bit more than $8.2 million. That house was
previously owned by a laundry list of
famous folk, including Ellen DeGeneres.
Back in the U.K., the rolling-in-dough
singer is said to own side-by-side townhouses
in a natty London neighborhood,
purchased in two transactions for a total
outlay of about $13 million, as well
as a seaside retreat in Hove near Brighton,
reportedly snapped up in 2012 for about
$3.8 million.
$7.5m
MALIBU
7,700 SQ. FT.
4 BEDROOMS
5.5 BATHS
Hoberman Building in
Malibu’s The Who ’Hood
We first heard it from eagle-eyed real estate
yenta Yolanda Yakketyyak, and property
records confirm that veteran film and television
producer David Hoberman shelled out
$7.5 million for a not-yet-completed contemporary
villa in Malibu’s The Who, a tiny
and curiously named gated enclave perched
on a low bluff above the Pacific Coast Highway.
Designed by savvy Malibu-based designer
and architect Scott Gillen, the low-slung,
single-level residence has four en suite bedrooms
and a total of 5.5 bathrooms in just
over 7,700 square feet, with soaring 13-foot
exposed beam ceilings, wide-plank white
oak floorboards, and custom-crafted black
walnut cabinetry.
A courtyard entry lined with glass walls
leads to a prodigiously proportioned, loftlike
main living/dining/entertaining space,
where an open-concept kitchen will feature
ultra-high-end cabinetry imported from Germany.
A vast wall of floor-to-ceiling glass
sliders will open on a 60-foot-long infinity-edged
swimming pool and spa. A basement
will accommodate a media room and
gym, and there’s a three-car garage.
Digs
The Boy Next Door
The Playboy Mansion is about
to be sold to businessman (and
next-door neighbor) Daren
Metropoulos. The famous estate
hit the market earlier this year
with an asking price of $200 million,
and is said to be in escrow
for right around $120 million.
The main residence was
designed by celebrated architect
Arthur Kelly and built in the
mid-1920s for department-store
heir Arthur Letts Jr. It was later
owned by Louis Statham, a
prolific inventor and avid chess
player, who sold it to Hugh
Hefner in 1971 for a then-recordbreaking
$1.05 million. The 5.3-
acre spread, in the hoity-toity
Holmby Hills hood, is one of the
few properties in Los Angeles
with a zoo permit. Young Mister
Metropoulos, the fortunately born
thirtysomething son of billionaire
investor C. Dean Metropoulos
— the man responsible for saving
the Twinkie and owning the
Pabst Blue Ribbon beer empire
— previously popped up in all
the property gossip columns in
2009 when he paid $18 million
cash for the estate next door, the
former Hefner family home that
was sold by Hugh Hefner’s second
ex-wife, former Playboy Playmate
Kimberly Conrad. The sale
of the Playboy Mansion comes
with the stipulation that Hefner,
now 90 years old, remain in residence
until his death — after
which Metropoulos plans to combine
the neighboring estates into a
single 7.3-acre compound.
MARK DAVID
JUNE 14, 2016 VARIETY.COM
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