Mariah Carey’s Lavish Beverly Hills Rental up for Sale Asking $32 Million
The pop icon said she stayed at the over-the-top, 15,000-square-foot mansion for several months with her family last year
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A Beverly Hills mega mansion that singer Mariah Carey once rented hit the market Monday asking $31.99 million.
The 15,000-square-foot residence, inspired by a mashup of European architectural styles from Baroque to Louis XV, is located on a 0.6-acre lot on Laurel Way. The three-story home includes eight bedrooms, and an entryway that features a 30-foot rotunda and not one, but two imposing double stairways, one outdoors and one indoors.
It was built by a Russian couple who immigrated in the 1970s, and set about building their dream home, much to their neighbours’ consternation . “I used all of what Europe has to offer,” Natalie Glosman, whose husband Leonid is a dentist, told Today.com in 2014.
The Glosmans purchased the land for $2.2 million in 1988 and sold the home in 2019 for $30 million. The buyer was a California entity, BHLW LLC, according to property records. The manager for the entity could not immediately be reached for comment.
Last year, Mariah Carey rented the house for three months in the spring, which was asking for $125,000 in monthly rent at the time. The Queen of Christmas then partnered with Booking.com, which offered visitors a special two-night “ritzy summer reprieve” at the house, with a Carey-curated itinerary, including reservations to her favourite restaurants, according to marketing material from the booking platform.
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“One of my Lambs has the opportunity to experience L.A. in true Mimi fashion by staying in the same home and visiting all my favourite places in the area!” Carey said in the Booking.com news release at the time .
The house has some additional Hollywood elan, as it served as filming location on several occasions. Danny DeVito and one of the cast members of the “Real Housewives of Atlanta” have been filmed there, according to Today, and in the second season of “True Detective,” it stood in for the “incredibly gaudy” home of the corrupt and alcoholic mayor Austin Chessani, according to Curbed.
In addition to its grand entryway, the home features arched doorways, French windows, coffered ceilings, wainscotting and Rococo wall mouldings, in a blend of Art Deco and Art Nouveau styles. Outside, there is a broad green lawn with a shaded sitting area, and a back patio with a glamorous pool to match the home’s style.
Alla Furman and David Kramer of Hilton & Hyland/Forbes Global Properties are marketing the property. They were not immediately available for comment.
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A five-bedroom Palo Alto home designed by Steven Ehrlich is listed for $44 million, making it the city’s most expensive listing. Built around a dramatic concrete spine, the home features four courtyards and a pool.
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For years, tech entrepreneur Asher Waldfogel and his wife, Helyn MacLean, dreamed of building a modern house in Palo Alto, Calif.
The couple, however, worried about clashing with the Mediterranean-style architecture typically associated with their neighborhood of Old Palo Alto.
So they tapped architect Steven Ehrlich to create a design that paid homage to its surroundings with stucco, mahogany and titanium zinc cladding. They spent $20 million over several years building the house, completed in 2005.
Now looking to be closer to their adult daughter on the East Coast, they are putting the five-bedroom home on the market for $44 million—the most expensive listing in Palo Alto.
Waldfogel is an angel investor who co-founded Redback Networks, a telecommunications-equipment company. MacLean previously had a career in fundraising.
The couple purchased the roughly 0.4-acre site for $7.1 million in 2000 and demolished a circa-1930s Spanish Colonial home. The house they built pinwheels around a central staircase. It has 7,900 square feet of livable space, with four distinct courtyards and a pool.
A key feature of the home is a cast-in-place concrete wall, or spine, that is two stories high and about 80 feet long. “There’s a little bit of controlled chaos in what comes out of the form,” unlike a perfectly uniform surface, Waldfogel said. “If you want that, you do it in plastic.”
Waldfogel said he and his wife are thinking about the next phase of life now that their daughter is grown, although they have not decided where they will move. They also have a home in Sun Valley, Idaho.
“Right now we’re just trying to emotionally let go and decide what to do next,” he said.
Palo Alto, an epicenter of venture capital and tech startups in Silicon Valley, is home to some of the country’s biggest tech titans. Sales volume and prices are rising, with a median sale price of $3.5 million for the three months ending in August, up 5.8% year-over-year, according to real-estate brokerage Redfin.
Arthur Sharif of Sotheby’s International Realty—San Francisco Brokerage has the listing.
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