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
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Probably found Hugh’s stash of Viagra in the house
Necessary to insert the word "there," insofar as it otherwise reads as though Dean kindly didn't execute him.
Regards,
The property may have needed, new flooring, new dry wall, new windows, along with new plumbing. Sometimes, it’s smarter to replace or remove, vs trying to clean all heavily stained surfaces. Oh yes, new ventilation system needed too
I wonder if he’s keeping all the cameras and recorders.
It’s taken that long to get the stains off everything.
wy69
“New plumbing”, you say? That sounds too much like tranny surgery.
I was invited there at 19
Too shy to go
Scouts honor
But I did know some playmates
I had read the place was a pig stye. In addition to the human stains, those women kept little purse dogs and let them crap and pee everywhere.
The bed can now comfortably sleep 21 people.
I’m surprised such a place still exists in the era of woke.
Did he stock it with bunnies?
I hope they hosed it down with bleach before they brought the contractors in.
CC
A lot of displaced spirochetes are looking for a new home.
He appears to have one or an equivalent as his spouse
Most pics I’ve ever seen of Hefner has him dressed in some sort of pajama outfit. I simply have never seen him dressed in a suit or street clothes.
Those two pretty girls, I wonder what would make them want to be with a dirty old man, literally, in a germ infested rat hole of a mansion.
$$$
They have no other skills to make money.
“Elvis Presley reportedly slept with eight Playmates at once at the home”
This is false. Elvis once chartered Hefner’s jet, but he never once visited the Playboy mansion. Hefner himself has said so. And while it is believed and possible that he slept with multiple girls at once, its highly unlikely they were all or any playboy playmates. Not a single playboy playmate has piped up, claiming she slept with Elvis.
One time in the 1950s, before he had moved to Graceland, a reporter said how Elvis mentioned a rumor going around that he slept with 3 girls at once at a hotel somewhere. The reporter asked, “oh, so it’s not true?”
Elvis: “No, sir. It was 6 girls.”
Reportedly, his father who was standing there, beamed.
Is that kamala on the left
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