Let me guess who the bidders were: Biden, Putin, Xi, Clinton, and Soros.
I saw a house similar in scope and cost on a recent YouTube “tour” video. People posted comments saying the tax on that property was $1.5 million - per month!
Looks like it’s built on a leach field berm.
Probably purchased by Vladimir Putin for his exile home in the USA…
Probably purchased by Vladimir Putin for his exile home in the USA…
They forgot to add the helipad! No self-respecting billionaire or Russian oligarch would be caught dead without one.
Well, I dropped out after learning it had only 42 bathrooms.
Was really looking for 43…
The building looks more like an office complex than a home.
I’ve been watching some videos about abandoned mansions, mostly in Europe, and the main common thread is that the place was built in another time where a very rich landowner could afford such a place and all the servants to go with it. Few can afford now and they require too much repair and would cost an arm & leg to heat & power. So they sit there - these architecturally astonishing and historic buildings. It’s a shame...but they’re part of a different time.
You can build these insane places but seriously, how many would ever need or want such a place? Not many.
Nile Niami is still living the life of luxury, as we unwashed masses would deem his life style.
The nicest thing was the view. The rest was sterile modern.
I told them to put in granite countertops.
the newspaper set it up for me to interview someone in their multi-million-dollar home so I could write about their free-standing barbecue pit. The “pit” was built to resemble a Greek temple and had marble columns, about five per side and a bunch of Greek style statues that were life-sized. It was either marble or faux marble.
The owner greeted me at the front door. The portico was also built along the style of a Greek temple with columns leading to a set of ten-foot-tall doors. The doors opened easily, which surprised me as they were massive. I walked in and noticed the vaulted ceiling was a good twenty feet up. Again, a few columns and then into the living room. Mercifully, the ceilings there were only about ten feet up.
Told you that to tell you this. The family actually lived hunkered down in a few rooms of normal size. You could see there were no lights on in the huge main rooms and we sat and chatted at an island in the kitchen. The house, other than those normal sized rooms, was like living in a public building. Psychologically very unwelcoming. (Oh, there was a library with a ladder on a runner like you see in film noir murder movies. I waited there for the owner to show.
I took a couple of books down to discover the pages had never been separated. Yep, just for show. Every leather-bound classic you could imagine.)
All I could think of was the cost of maintaining a huge building that was too big for comfort. There had to be a staff just to keep the floors clean. I have no idea what the owner did for a living. Sometimes to be successful, you have to live like you’re successful. I’ve known some big-time salesmen and they drive the most expensive car they can afford. I assume if you had a job where you had to entertain, you’d actually profit from having a home that big. But it can’t be good for your children who would always be treated by their “friends” in an “unreal” manner.
42 full baths, 7 half baths. Whoever built it must have been full of _____.
I hope they weren’t going for cozy ...
42 full / 7 half
Looks like an airport terminal. Who built this monstrosity?
It’s a cute shack, personally I think Mr P’s shack was far nicer, plus it was 3 times the acreage and was pretty neat. Stop in sometime and ask Lachlan for a tour, service gate is 750 Bel Air Rd.You’ll see what I mean. He actually got it on the cheap, Mrs P just wanted to get rid of it.
I also know Hankey, he has a cute shack next door to Geoffreys in Malibu(Harvey Baskin’s Restaraunt) (When I met Harvey the first time he was renting Miles Davis house in Malibu by Leo Carillo Beach) and another ranch style house up the road off Bonsall. SoCal is a pretty small town for me