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Gossipy article about Cynthia Beck’s odd properties: weird stuff
In August 1993 — just four months after he bought the Malibu pad — Gordon Getty paid exactly $4 million for a historic 3-acre estate in prime East Gate Bel Air. Our gurl Ms. Beck then paid him just over $5.5 million in 1999 to acquire title to the baronial compound.
Floraves, as the hilltop mansion was originally christened, was built in 1924 by wealthy author Gene Stratton-Porter. It was the very first mansion ever built in a massive undeveloped plot of land that became modern-day Bel Air, though Mrs. Stratton-Porter never actually lived in the home — she died shortly prior to its completion.
According to our pal Wiki Pedia, the property originally consisted of a English Tudor-style 22-room mansion with 11,000-square-feet of living space. There was also a four car garage and servants’ quarters, a greenhouse, outdoor ponds, pool, and a tennis court. However, recent aerial shots (like the one above) show that the tennis court and ponds are long gone. And the whole place is in a sad state of disrepair. It also appears to Yolanda that there may be two or more old cars (?) rusting away in the driveway.
Although the house is only a two-minute drive to Sunset Boulevard, it is located on one of the most private properties in all of lower Bel Air: secreted away at the end of a tiny lane and hidden from the neighbors via overgrown foliage. The entire place is now surrounded by a hideous barbed-wire fence.