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Inside a $6.4 Million Encino Mansion That’s Been Home to LeBron James, Megan Fox and More
You can’t swing a cat on a tree-lined street in one of the more coveted zip codes across Los Angeles without running into a lavishly appointed home that has been owned or rented by a showbiz mover and shaker. And, in upscale Encino, the semi-suburban San Fernando Valley enclave long popular with celebs, a gated mansion listed at $6.4 million has been home to many.
Now owned by Canadian recording artist and real estate investor Betty Moon, who acquired the property with her late husband almost a decade ago for $3.54 million, according to tax records, the popular-with-famous-folks home has at various times been occupied by Lebron James, Cardi B, Megan Fox, and Machine Gun Kelly. It has also been featured in films and TV shows that include “Lethal Weapon” and “NCIS: Los Angeles.”
The formal dining room.
Wayne Ford
Originally built in 1960 and substantially updated and upgraded since, the Mediterranean-inspired residence sits on more than half an acre of landscaped grounds. Beyond the fancifully curlicued iron gates and driveway that circles up around a three-tiered fountain, the home’s many living and entertaining spaces include a double-height fireside sitting room and a double-height formal dining room.
In the family room, with a built-in media center and a wet bar, glass doors lead to the backyard, and in the eat-in kitchen, there are up-to-date stainless-steel appliances and a huge island with an integrated snack bar. Elsewhere are a card/billiards room, a 12-seat home theater, a library/office, and a gym.
Among the spacious bedrooms are an expansive primary suite replete with a double-sided fireplace between the sitting room and bedroom, a fitted walk-in closet, and an oversized marble bathroom with a built-in armoire for bath linens and toiletries.
The sports court.
Wayne Ford
The ample grounds, which include more than 40 fruit trees of various types, provide all the bells and whistles. In the terraced backyard, alongside the swimming pool and spillover spa, there’s an awning shaded outdoor kitchen and bar. On an upper terrace, an open-air pavilion is enshrouded in lush greenery and flowering plants, and on the uppermost terrace—pickleball aficionados take note—there’s a sports court bordered by a stone balustrade.
Moon’s southern California properties include multimillion-dollar homes in Pacific Palisades, Beverly Hills, and Malibu. According to the New York Post, she owns Cary Grant’s former home in Holmby Hills, which she recently rented out for $35,000 a month, and Isaac Tigrett, the co-founder of the Hard Rock Café and House of Blues franchises, is renting one of her Malibu properties.
The Encino property is listed with Sally Forster Jones and Tomer Fridman at Compass.
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Cher Once Owned This Waterfront Miami Manse. Now It Can Be Yours for $42.5 Million.
Here we go again. Another one of Cher’s trophy homes has splashed onto the market.
The singer-actress has racked up quite the real estate portfolio over the years, and now a Miami mansion that the pop legend owned in the 1990s is up for grabs. The Moorish-meets-Spanish-style estate is located on Florida’s uber-exclusive La Gorce Island, an upscale, guard-gated community with only 29 other waterfront residences.
Per The Wall Street Journal, the sellers are James Eaton, president of a Canadian private holding company, and his wife, Cecily Eaton. The couple coughed up a cool $17 million for the 12,450-square-foot spread back in 2020, a heck of a lot more than the $1.5 million Cher paid in 1993.
Cher’s former mansion on La Gorce Island in Miami newly listed for $42.5 million
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The Eatons spent much of the last three years renovating the place, including raising some of the ceilings and turning a covered terrace into a brand-new dining room and sitting area. Altogether, the sprawling abode comprises six bedrooms, nine bathrooms, and, most importantly, 158 feet of frontage on Biscayne Bay. The views are epic, and boaters will appreciate that they can park their yacht in the backyard.
Even though the “Strong Enough” singer parted ways with the sumptuous spread some 30 years ago, it sports a ton of opulent features that the so-called Goddess of Pop would no doubt approve of. For starters, the double-height foyer makes a lasting first impression with soaring 19-foot ceilings and grand dual staircases. Elsewhere, the chef’s kitchen is kitted out with gold-toned finishes, and the primary suite is complete with a marble-clad en suite bath and a private terrace. In true Queen of Camp fashion, there’s also an Art Deco-style bar area that’s wrapped in abstract patterned custom wallpaper.
The home has been renovated and includes an Art Deco-themed bar with custom wallpaper
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The many deluxe amenities help to explain the hefty price tag, with a few of the most compelling perks including a top-floor fitness studio, a 50-foot-long swimming pool, and a Palm Beach-inspired pool house. If Cher could actually turn back time, she might’ve kept this swanky sanctuary all to herself.
Dina Goldentayer with Douglas Elliman has the listing.
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Collector Chara Shreyer’s $8.2 Million ‘Art House’ in San Francisco Is Like Living in a Gallery
Almost six months after she passed away from cancer at age 75, the longtime Marin County residence of venerable art collector and philanthropist Chara Schreyer has popped up for sale, asking a brush stroke over $8.2 million. Resting in the desirable Belvedere enclave of Tiburon, just across the Golden Gate Bridge, the sleek architectural-style digs come complete with picturesque views overlooking the Tiburon Peninsula, San Francisco Bay and Sausalito.
Originally acquired by Schreyer and her then-husband Gary Schreyer in the late 1970s — and subsequently customized to her tastes by interior designer Gary Hutton — the three-story structure is known as the “Art House,” and has six bedrooms and a matching number of baths in a little more than 8,100 square feet of gallery-like living space boasting high ceilings and a striking spiral staircase holding court in the slate-covered foyer. A freestanding art studio also is whimsically framed by a half-pair of gigantic red eyeglasses, with the other portion on exhibit at her home in Los Angeles.
A freestanding art studio wears a half-pair of eyeglasses.
Jim Nevill
Highlights include a soaring living room with French doors spilling out to the leafy grounds and an adjacent family room warmed by a fireplace. There’s also an office, a lofty game lounge, wood-clad library with built-in banquette seating and window-lined dining room that connects via a butler’s pantry to the gourmet kitchen, which is outfitted with granite countertops, a center island sporting dual sinks, top-tier Bosch, Dacor, Wolf and Sub-Zero appliances, and a cozy fireside breakfast nook.
An upstairs master retreat features a fireplace donning a marble surround, private balcony, walk-in closet and luxe bath spotlighted by a shower equipped with a large pivoting steel door, while a lower level leading to the attached three-car garage is decked out with a recreation/media room, gym, full bath with a steam shower and wine cellar. Outdoors, the sculpture-laced grounds span almost an acre, and host meandering pathways and an expansive terrace ideal for al fresco entertaining with a built-in barbecue setup, as well as a sunny site primed for a pool.
A fireside master retreat overlooks stunning San Francisco Bay vistas.
Jim Nevill
Revered as one of the world’s foremost collectors of modern and contemporary art created by the likes of Marcel Duchamp, Mark Bradford, Georgia O’Keeffe and Andy Warhol, Schreyer served on the boards of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Museum of Contemporary Art and Hammer Museum in L.A. The German-born daughter of Holocaust survivors, she also was an avid supporter of the Contemporary Jewish Museum, where she was instrumental in the Daniel Libeskind-designed expansion in 2008.
In addition to the Tiburon home, which is listed by Shana Rohde-Lynch of Compass, Schreyer’s estate still maintains four additional California properties, including the aforementioned L.A. spread currently on the market with Ginger Glass of Compass for $13.5 million.
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Welcome to Dirt’s New Home
Published on July 31, 2023
Colin Miller
Beginning from August, Dirt has a brand new home here on Robb Report’s real estate pages. The team that brought you Dirt.com and its newsletters will be contributing to Robb Report’s celebrity homes coverage, in addition to expanding its reporting on historic and extraordinary homes from around the world. So you can find all the expert analysis and breaking real-estate news from our sister publication here, from tomorrow. More
