Posted on 05/19/2025 9:58:11 PM PDT by algore
The late Hugh Hefner's legendary home, which served as the backdrop to his Playboy magazine, was sold in January 2016 to Greek-American business mogul Daren Metropoulos for $100 million.
Daren, 42, is the son of billionaire businessman Dean Metropoulos, 79.
Dean is a fan of Hefner's fantasy home, as he was photographed partying it up at the 29-room Holmby Hills property in 2012 alongside rapper Snoop Dogg and an entourage of bunnies.
He entrusted the makeover to architect Richard Landry, who has renovated multiple star's houses such as Tom Brady, Kylie Jenner, Rod Stewart, Mark Wahlberg and Sylvester Stallone.
Dean has spent the last 18 years buying up iconic properties, has splashed out around $326million so far.
Outside of the Playboy Mansion, his purchases include $148million on a Mediterranean Revival-style home in Florida.
'My general approach is very measured and tactical and I am particularly interested in hidden jewel properties that rarely come to market,'
In addition to owning the $100million Playboy Mansion, Dean also owns a 'miniature' mansion next door worth around $60million.
He has hinted in the past that he plans to combine the two estates.
Building permits filed with the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety at the start of renovations five years ago, showed his intention of remodeling the kitchen, family room bathrooms and powder room in the main house.
When Dean originally bought the mansion in 2016, he allowed Hefner to live out his last days. He died at age 91 from sepsis he had developed after he contracted E. coli
Elvis Presley reportedly slept with eight Playmates at once at the home, while John Lennon burned a Matisse original with a cigarette.
Donald Trump even filmed an episode of The Apprentice at the mansion where contestants got to meet Hefner and his girlfriends
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Bunch of gold diggers. They weren’t attracted to him. Only to his monthly social security check.
Reportedly, the house had been in need of major renovations for a lot of years when Hefner still owned the mansion. Some guests remarked on their first time stepping into the house, expecting a truly fancy place only to find it was raggedy and run down, some of the carpets and furnishings probably dating back to the 1970s.
I bet that before the renovation, if they lit up the place with a black light, it would have looked like a Jackson Pollock painting.
h/t to The Guardians of the Galaxy.
That’s why they couldn’t tear it down.
It was too hard....................
Hefner reportedly had multiple paid girlfriends.
It was a paid girlfriend situation. The girls were paid for being there. The girls were paid to live with him in the mansion. The girls were paid for public appearances with him, pretending that they had some sort of actual relationship.
In all seriousness, a friend of mine who worked in “The Girls Next Door” said Hefner allowed them to keep their dogs in the house and, well, the dogs weren’t well trained.
Hopefully, part of the money paid in refurbishing the place also included a room-by-room disinfection of every nook and cranny. Lord knows what kind of diseases might’ve been lurking there.
FTA: (Hefner) died at age 91 from sepsis he had developed after he contracted E. coli.
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Can’t say I have ever read of someone “contracting” Escherichia coli. One can become infected by it, and it is carried in feces. Appropriate ending for that pervert.
The entire house lit up like a full moon under UV Light!
First paragraph says property was sold to Daren, the son. The remaining paragraphs say it was bought by Dean, the father.
See, I read the Playboy articles.
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