Gargantuan Party House Being Built Above Cielo Drive

The new neighbor isn't well regarded.

I think this is the digital rendering. Pretty sure. Called Villa Capri.

I thought they tore down the original house where the murders took place.

Building a home to use as a business would seem to violate zoning restrictions.

Who cares? It's LA.

That location is near the sites of Sharon Tate murder house and Valentino's Falcon Lair. Hope their ghosts terrorize this tasteless pig.

The Big One is going to make for great TV - all these homes sliding down the hills, like a game of dominos, the first crushing the next, and so on and so forth...

Aren't builders required to submit building plans in LA? I would think, particularly in those canyons, that the restrictions as to size of buildings would be examined closely. Particularly given the seemingly increasing fire concerns.

Not to mention, where would huge numbers of "party goers" park. And leaving such a place under the influence?

Ugly people doing ugly things.

Is this near that Ever-Expanding house that someone's Nana bought on the 60's for like 5 dollars and had a prominent of the three stooges for a neighbor?

Nana, the fucking mobile home retiree, grifter.

R3 The Tate murder house was torn down years ago, only to be replaced with a hideous mega-mansion.

The wealthy get away with EVERYTHING because WE LET THEM!

Blame yourselves!

Reply 3, yes, in 1993 an investor bought and then tore down 10050 Cielo Drive. A gaudy, Godless mansion that overpowers the 3 acre lot was then erected. Now, just above the lot a neighbor is building an even larger, uglier mansion that he'll turn into a mega party house profit center. It's all about $$$

Party at 10066 Cielo Drive house in very poor taste. Shame on Jeff Franklin. Assholes.

Everything I despise about stereotypical LA

Make it witchy..

Bono is also building a space age monstrosity above West Hollywood, not a popular move either.

Since it's LA it'll be torn down in 20 years anyway.

The Hadid fellow tried but he’s been ordered to tear his down.

Eat The Rich.

Perhaps a landslide will take them both out, R13.

10050 Cielo Dr. itself converted into a garish palace some time ago.

R22, nauseating in its hedonism

Disgusting.

The present, trashy Cielo mansion has a parking structure on the lower level that enters to a full liquor bar. Rich, selfish, drunk drivers.

R23, it's just a little over-the-top, isn't it?

'Andalusian style' my ass. The original Melcher/Tate house had the misfortune to sit on a huge 3 acre view lot -- irresistible catnip to a trash LA 'mansion' builder...

I'm confused by the Cielo style . Is it Moroccan or Asian? It doesn't jive for me. It could be smaller, as well. Plus I think it was mediterranean when the Full House-Not Full Deck guy bought it. Mishmash, hodgepodge. Even today, I'd sleep with one eye open and a loaded gun nearby in that place. I would be mentally haunted everyday there. If you weren't bothered, you'd be soulless.

They better call Progressive. Slip, sliding away.

R28 The owner is a creepy Hollywood TV producer: soulless is pretty much a given.

That seems really trashy and awful. Like a harbinger if the apocalypse. What kind of sad loser needs to party on such a grand scale?

Aren’t the other people in the area rich? I’m surprised there’s not more they can do about it.

Gulf Arab "royalty", Persians, and all the East,and West Asians with money to burn will love that party place. That location will be the host to all sorts of ODs, rapes, and covered up scandals.

"It doesn't jive for me"

I speak Jive.

That land will always have bad juju. Doesn't matter if it's a tasteful place or not.

Trash with cash.

I see Franklin floating in his meandering, haunted, blood money pool. Suddenly he feels a rain drop. Rain on a sunny day? No, it's just a neighbor's party customer, upchucking from above. And we thought bird shit was bad.

I'm sure that many of the paying partiers will be looky lous. The real view is not the city. It's the infamous Cielo property.

R31 it could be a modern-day version of Poe's the masque of the Red Death

Knowledgeable Hollywood Lesbyterian sources informed us that the victims had been buying and doing drugs and having sex with the Manson hippies. It is believed the murders were a drug hit for non-payment of bills

It seems like no matter what city you're talking about (and it's moving to the small towns and even the trailer parks now - at least in the US and Canada), capitalism has so many more ways to render the basic necessities of life unreachable to anyone but the rich than Marx himself could have imagined. Housing itself, as a concept and not just a market, is screwed up in ways unique to each location. I'm almost impressed, in a totally depressing way. It's everythingisshitception.

What a hideous home.

Imagine having so much money to erect any home you want, and this is what you come up with.

It’s so true. Money buys you almost anything but it cannot buy you good judgement or good taste.

Franklin's rain gutters will jamb from all the spent condoms and iv needles.

This is the house they had Bob Saget’s memorial

The Olsen twins probably came. Ewww! And the fat faced one that sells tuna packets. And the college scandal bitch with her dumb as fuck, Instagram whore, daughters.

The views and the wraparound pool are incredible.

I have a fear of pools and heights. I would like to throw a Baby Ruth in that pool, though. Just for shits and giggles.

Just when you thought things couldn't get douchier, Josh Altman comes along to scream:

Multiple fish tanks!

That fish I have a crush on!

Shark tank!

Richard Landry, starchitect!

Waterfalls everywhere!

Lazy river!

Serious pizza oven!

Koi pond! With fishes!

Photo booth!

Waterslide!

Flaming hot-tub grotto!

And at 3:13, just for R40 and R47, "stools in the pool; if you want to eat."

Realtors are scum. They will tell you they have ethics, but they are scum.

Not all realtors are scum, but Josh Altman is vile. Although, not as bad as Josh Fagg- stealing art and getting fucked in Circus of Books parking lot. He's lucky granny had money.

What an abomination: of architecture, of zoning, of neighborliness, of taste...

The big pile that is there now is ghastly,but compared to this "party house" scheme, it somehow seems almost refined.

How is this even vaguely considered feasible? Legal?

Creep must know the legal loopholes and whose palms to grease. Still, you'd think the surrounding neighbors would have some power. There are no poor people living in Beverly Hills.

It's not Beverly Hills, different building codes.

Still.

Here are pics of the original house, a 1959 ranch style. Looks like it was probably completely remodeled in the 1980's.

The three level basement was supposed to be almost 40,000 sq. ft. The guy originally submitted plans for the entire place to equal 139,000 sq. ft.

[quote] Money buys you almost anything but it cannot buy you good judgement or good taste.

LA has a lot of new money from all over the world, and sadly, it's not a city that appreciates its historical architecture very much. Buildings with actual character are bulldozed to make way for new eyesores. It's not a quality I like about this city.

They sure started the process a long time ago.

You can see that all over SoCal. Beach areas are the worst. If I see another modern farmhouse , I'll throw up.

Who is the hot number in the photo?

He fucks two fish at the same time!

He's the sleazy property owner. He is hot. If you can get around the sleaze. I'll pass unless he signs over his money first. He a major slum lord.

He probably has a trap door for all his unsuspecting lays.

I worked on that house for a *very* short time, years ago. Got out of the situation as quickly as I could. It really is a monstrosity now that you can see it from below taking form. As is Bono’s house that’s also going up as another poster mentioned. Interestingly John Lautners Sheats Goldstein house (one of his best) is right next door on Angelo view drive. And you can’t see it at all from below.

[quote]Nearly completed, the owner is developing it as a "party" house with an approximate annual attendance of 250,000 people.

How can this be?!?! Daily parties with 700 attendees? How much of that land is going to be turned into a parking lot. Are those canyon roads able to accommodate the traffic? It sounds poorly thought through.

The decking alone, holds 500 people.

What exactly is a party house. Do companies rent the house for employee parties or what?

Good way to spread Monkey Pox.

I take Benedict Canyon to Sherman Oaks every day after work. Great...this was the only canyon not a full parking lot at rush hour.

They won't be having parties that early. No worries.

I honestly don't see how these party houses can turn a profit. They cost many tens of million dollars to make, and then they're rented piecemeal, probably not every night or weekend, and the owner has to bear the costs of cleaning up after all these parties and whatever legal liabilities happen on the property.

So what's the real story with these places - drug distribution or sales? Money laundering? Human trafficking?

I'm 56 and still naive. Wow! You're probably right. Maybe that's why the guy got past the neighbors complaints. Dirty.

Drug den and brothel. Secret society, sick shit.

[quote]What exactly is a party house.

Rose Nylund is a live and well.

alive.

This is Rose. Well, I try to channel Rose when I want to feel human. Thanks for the implied insult as it made my lazy ass do a search. And Rose was the wisest, and many times, smartest air head.

Rose, again.

For neighbors, the consequences are real and serious. An “unruly gathering” can result in:

increased vehicle and pedestrian traffic (including Uber and Lyft pickups and deliveries); parking congestion (on public and private property); noise from guests, vehicles, music, fireworks, etc.; public intoxication; trespassing (including unwanted visits from disoriented guests); sanitation problems (trash, bottles and cans, drug paraphernalia, human waste, etc.); and, in some reported cases, indecent exposure.

It's not a party for the poor neighbors.

What's the point of so many fish ponds? Bet the fish won't last beyond the 1st wild party with guests throwing things in the pools. Or getting sick.

He'll probably rent the place out for porn premiere after parties. There won't be enough bleach to ever clean that cement nightmare.

Bel Air Neighborhood Council, Party House Handbook.

According to the party house ordinance, an unlawful party is a "loud or unruly gathering". The conduct that defines such a party can be any of the following: loud noise (audible 150 feet from the property line), obstruction of a street or public right-of-way, including a sidewalk, public intoxication or drinking in public, the service of alcoholic beverages to minors, possession and/or consumption of alcohol by minors, assault, battery, fights, domestic violence or other disturbances of the peace, the sale or service of alcoholic beverages without a required license, vandalism or destruction of property, litter, urinating or defecating in public or trespassing.