Tasteful friends....the Beverly Hillbillies mansion
After an epic $50 million price cut, the legendary Los Angeles estate of late billionaire Jerry Perenchio, in the tony heart of Bel Air and known as Chartwell, is now listed at $195 million. Astronomically high as it may be, the drastically reduced new asking price pushes up on half of the preposterously optimistic $350 million the property was privately shopped at before it was officially set out for sale on the open market last fall (2018) with an apparently still too titanic $245 million price tag.
The talent agent turned money-minting media mogul, former chairman and CEO of the Spanish TV conglomerate Univision, acquired the roughly 6.3-acre main parcel in 1986 for $13.5 million and over the years added several surrounding properties, including one that had been owned by Ronald and Nancy Reagan. All together, the estate’s handful of parcels total almost 10.5 acres. The more than 20,000 square foot main house, a French Neoclassical limestone chateau built on spec in the early 1930s by architect Sumner Spaulding, used in the 1960s for exterior shots as the Clampett mansion on “The Beverly Hillbillies” and redecorated for Perenchio in the late 1980s by internationally esteemed French decorator Henri Samuel, presides over a private idyll with numerous fountains and scads of sculpture amid of immaculate formal gardens and vast sweeps of generously irrigated lawn bordered by punctiliously trimmed boxwood hedgerows.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | December 12, 2019 2:26 PM
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Some Rich Russian RIFF RAFF will snap it up.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | June 25, 2019 12:02 AM
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It's not worth $195 million, but it is spectacular in the grandeur and scale of the whole property.
It does look more like an embassy or diplomatic residence that does official functions than a purely residential home.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | June 25, 2019 12:04 AM
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"But hillbillies have lived in it and your can never eradicate that boorishness!"
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | June 25, 2019 12:07 AM
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The original homeowner constructed it as a surprise for his wife. When it was ready to move in, he held a party, but told his wife they were visiting the housewarming of a business associate. When she saw the house, she commented to her husband that she couldn't imagine anyone wanting to live in such a pretentious and gaudy place. When he confessed it was their home, it didn't change her mind. They lived in the house briefly and hated it.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | June 25, 2019 12:13 AM
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What about the Cement pond???
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | June 25, 2019 12:29 AM
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I've always heard it referred to as the Kirkaby mansion.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | June 25, 2019 12:33 AM
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Living in a house that huge would probably give me anxiety.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | June 25, 2019 12:34 AM
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[quote]It does look more like an embassy or diplomatic residence that does official functions than a purely residential home.
That explains it: Jerry Perenchio was the business partner of Norman Lear’s who helped him buy out Embassy Pictures.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | June 25, 2019 12:39 AM
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Supposedly one of the owners bought the former Jeanette MacDonald / later John and Michelle Phillps house directly across the street, and had it torn it down in order to improve his view.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | June 25, 2019 2:21 AM
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Does it come with a Granny flat?
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | June 25, 2019 2:26 AM
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Well clutch cousin Pearl!
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | June 25, 2019 2:32 AM
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| by Anonymous | reply 13 | December 12, 2019 1:31 PM
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So, it's still a hillbilly mansion then.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | December 12, 2019 1:42 PM
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Bye. Y'all come back now.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | December 12, 2019 1:46 PM
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So the Beverly Hillbillies' house wasn't even in Beverly Hills?
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | December 12, 2019 1:58 PM
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R13 Of course one of the assholes from that family would buy it.🤬
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | December 12, 2019 2:09 PM
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Why no interior photos? Its a ecological nightmare but quite impressive.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | December 12, 2019 2:21 PM
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Sure, Fox News is inciting the worst of people and destroying our democracy, but....hey...as long as it lets Rupert’s kids live in the most expensive house in CA, it makes it all worth it.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | December 12, 2019 2:26 PM
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