Posted on 09/13/2023 6:51:46 PM PDT by algore
The LA home of the late Alex Trebek is set to be demolished this week, TMZ revealed.
The iconic Jeopardy host lived in the Studio City mansion for almost three decades - renovating the home himself over the years.
Alex died in the home on November 8, 2020 at age 80 from pancreatic cancer, with wife Jean Trebek selling the home in January 2022 for $6.45M.
The outlet reported that bulldozers and excavators were seen over the weekend arriving to the house - along with a tarp that went up, per his former neighbors.
The crew was seen taking the home apart using bulldozers and excavators, as seen on TMZ.
One month after Jean sold the home, the new owners applied for a permit for demolition.
The crew was seen taking apart the massive home, with the rest of the demolition set to conclude this week.
Alex fixed everything in the home himself and even bought an hardware store out for DIY renovations, TMZ revealed.
He also drove a pickup truck, the outlet noted, so he could pick up supplies from the hardware store for his various renovations around his home.
Alex, who was the host of Jeopardy for over 35 years, was 80 years old when he passed away on Sunday, November 8, 2020 from pancreatic cancer.
His death was announced by Jeopardy's Twitter account: 'Jeopardy is saddened to share that Alex Trebek passed away peacefully at home early this morning, surrounded by family and friends. Thank you, Alex.'
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You’re buying the location, not the house. If you can afford the location, you can afford to build the house the way you want it.
Exactly.
The nerve of some people! They buy the real estate and act like they own the place.
Michael Jordan can’t sell his Chicago mansion, because it’s not in a good location. Folks with that kind of money won’t pay millions if it isn’t in a good location.
Same happened to Rush’s home.
If I can afford it, I don’t want to live where someone passed away. This guy can obviously afford it. Plus the home is decades old.
I see $10M homes torn down and $15M homes go up all the time. I have no problem with it. Good for the construction business.
When I visit South Florida, I always like to go driving along A1A in Palm Beach, and I always see houses being built along the coast.
We have a gorgeous home down the street from us with the most amazing woodwork interior. It was a lifelong labor of love of the owners. The house is a single story, under 3,000 sq ft, on a wooded acre. The husband died some years ago and his wife meticulously maintained it (and the gardens) in perfect condition. The guy who bought it is a rapacious developer in his 80s who was going to tear it down, split the lot, and build two huge homes, ruining the character of the neighborhood.
The neighbors got it stopped at the city council. Now the jerk who bought it is letting it fall into total disrepair, let the landscaping die, garden fixtures are fallen over, huge piles of pinecones are piling up all over, and weeds are growing everywhere. It is so heartbreaking to see, especially because the spiteful, mean old bastard is just poking a stick in our eyes.
The house I lived in Fort Lauderdale in high school was torn down, and the owners built a huge mansion in it’s place.
When we sold it back in the 80s it was probably about $100K, fairly modest in size.
The mansion that replaced it like about $4 million now.
And Rush’s home was way more modern in appearance. I would have kept it and renovated any insides I didn’t love.
Rush’s estate was sort of a hodgepodge of connected (and not connected) buildings. The Koch estate is just down the street a bit and has 100 times the curb appeal.
Funny thing is that the location of Rush’s house is great for someone that never leaves it (which doesn’t describe him at all). It’s at the very far end of the island and it’s a hike in traffic anywhere you want to go. Just a pain in the ass place to get to and from.
Palm Beachers would love a bridge to Singer Island - for them only of course.
It’s what rich people do all the time, because dey rich.
A fresh coat of paint and updating the kitchen would probably have been enough for me. Each to his own.
Life is for the living..
Really nothing significant about the house... a game show host owned it... how does that make it any more important than the 900 square foot 2 bedroom range owned by John Q Public, that gets torn down to build something better by new owners?
Its not like the magna carta was written inside its walls.
Used to be a house was hand-wrecked by men salvaging everything from doors to windows, chandeliers, banisters, the metals, nice fireplace mantels, tubs and toilets, all kinds of stuff, surely they don’t just bulldoze these mansions do they?
The contractors take a lot of it away and keep it or sell it. Then salvagers come in and take what’s left.
A GC friend of mine in Wellington gave me a Viking beer tapster - all stainless - that he pulled from a residence down there. The thing is perfect. Whisper quiet.
Same thing happened to John Wayne’s and Ozzie and Harriet Nelson’s homes in Orange County, CA.
It is their property and house. Anyone complaining about what they are doing should have purchased it themselves.
End of Story.
It's California. Lumber, masonry, wiring, everything costs a fortune. You can bet the Latino demolition crew and the Latino-owned company they work for will salvage everything that's worth a buck. And I don't blame them one bit.
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