HOW TO SPEND IT
America’s favorite business leader from the 1960s to the ‘90s, one of the many things Lee Iacocca was known for were his famous quotes including “In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.” Also, “If you can find a better car, buy it.” Iacocca, the…
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Historically connected to America’s first dalliance with opium and and also the home of one of America’s most controversial great actors, Bella Vista mansion is for sale with its perfectly maintained opium den still in place, reached by a hand-carved ladder above the master suite. John Barrymore, who had been expelled from more schools than he later had marriages, seemed…
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He was a student of Frank Lloyd Wright but with the overpowering drive to do things his own way and his way of approaching design was so successful his homes are as sought after today as when they were originally built. Upon leaving Wright’s tutelage, John Lautner told him that he would always be available to help him at any…
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Few things are worth staying in an inconvenient marriage to hold on to, but in the case of a classic Beverly Hills mansion once owned by Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt, the breakup might have deserved a second thought. The A-list couple owned the home from 2001 to 2006 and it is once again on the market priced at $44.5…
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Ex-movie producer turned uber-luxury blockbuster megamansion developer Nile Niami (Skyline Development LA) and ultramodern starchitect Paul McClean have collaborated again. The two are behind The One, a $500 million giga-mansion in Bel-Air; and Opus, an $80 million architectural estate in Trousdale. Offered at $65 Million, the duo’s newest tour-de-force is akin to a private island resort — situated across two…
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Delivering a blend of contemporary sound and theatrics, Adam Lambert’s style has propelled him from an American Idol superstar singer-songwriter into an international celebrity. The house he bought in 2009 that overlooks the Sunset Strip, the same year he appeared on American Idol, reflects his personality along with his penchant for drama. Now traveling the world almost full-time performing in…
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When Megan Markle, now Duchess of Sussex and a princess of the United Kingdom, first got her acting part in Suits in 2011, she was married to Trevor Engelson and they rented a charming Colonial-style home in L.A.’s Hancock Park neighborhood – a stone’s throw from downtown Hollywood. Though it was necessary for her to live nine months of the…
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Hovering above the city like a floating palace is Penthouse 40, the “Mansion in the Sky” that occupies the entire 40th floor of the exclusive Century building. The sprawling interior has been transformed by architect Scott Joyce and noted interior designer LM Pagano into a stunning palette of textures & colors that are both contemporary & classic, comprising a bold…
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Olympic Gold Medal boxing champion for the United States in 1976, named ‘Boxer of the Decade’ in the 1980s and the first professional boxer to win more than $100 million in purses, Sugar Ray Leonard could afford to live any way he wanted. It was in this knockout of a Pacific Palisades estate that he built with wife Bernadette where…
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The One in Bel Air, California is the most expensive home in the world at $500 Million dollars. You read that right: $500,000,000 as in half a billion dollars. What that impressive sum will buy you when the world’s first giga-mansion is completed this summer, is a 100,000-square-foot, 20-bedroom compound perched high above Bel Air on four acres, with spectacular…
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