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    A Dutch Media Mogul’s Chateau-Style Home in Beverly Hills Is Up for Grabs at $32 Million

    Back in fall 2021, media and entertainment industry veteran Reinout Oerlemans sold his extravagant Bel Air mansion for a whopping $69 million to Abel Tesfaye, the Canadian superstar better known as the Weeknd, in one of California’s priciest home sales that year. The 3 Ball Media Group chairman and chief creative officer and his onetime professional road cyclist wife Danielle then paid Lynda Brasali, widow of Indonesian real estate mogul Aldo Brasali, $19.1 million in an off-market deal for another smaller yet still glitzy house in Beverly Hills.

    Now, after picking up another L.A. residence once owned by the late filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock and a New York City pied-à-terre, the Dutch media celebrities have decided they no longer need their 90210 spread. So, they’ve decided to hoist the neoclassical French chateau-style home resting alongside the Los Angeles Country Club on the market, asking a cool $32 million.

    A flamboyant living room flows across two rooms.

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    Built in the late 1980s but extensively remodeled during the Oerlemans’s tenure, the two-story abode features a total of six bedrooms and eight baths spread across roughly 9,100 square feet. Decked out with warm tones and graceful curves, the elegant interiors “seamlessly blend old-world glamour with modern elegance” per listing agents Branden and Rayni Williams of The Beverly Hills Estates.

    Tucked securely away behind wrought-iron gates and towering hedges, amid a lushly landscaped parcel of land spanning over an acre, the ivy-clad home greets with a motor court. Once inside, a double-height foyer bathed in light steps down to an expansive fireside living room with a separate lounging spot, as well as a formal dining room and a handsome wood-paneled office equipped with a seated bar.

    A formal dining room overlooks the grounds.

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    Other main-level highlights include a gourmet kitchen outfitted with two islands, top-tier appliances, and a breakfast room sporting a built-in hutch, plus a family room that opens out onto an alfresco dining space shaded by mature grapevines. All the bedrooms can be found upstairs, including a spacious primary suite that comes complete with a seating area sidled up next to a fireplace, two sets of French doors spilling out onto a private balcony, and dual walk-in closets and baths.

    In addition to numerous balconies and verandas offering up Southern California’s quintessential indoor-outdoor lifestyle, the picturesque grounds also hold a lighted tennis court and a resort-like pool and spa flanked by a sundeck and a pool house. There’s also a deck peering across the golf course.

    The home borders a fairway of the Los Angeles Country Club golf course.

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    A former Dutch soap opera star, Oerlemans is probably best known as the founder of Eyeworks, which sold to Warner Bros. in 2014 as part of a deal valued at more than $273 million. He currently heads up 3BMG, a content and production enterprise that’s responsible for hit shows such as Bling Empire, My Unorthodox Life, Coming Out Colton, Come Dance with Me, and Bar Rescue. Together with his wife Danielle, the duo has been called “the Netherland’s most famous media couple.”

    Click here for more photos of Reinout Oerlemans’s Beverly Hills home.

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    Designer Reed Krakoff Seeks $25.5 Million for the Connecticut Estate of a Reclusive Late Heiress

    A 52-acre estate in New Canaan, Connecticut, with the tongue-in-cheek name of Le Beau Chateau and previously owned for more than 60 years by the late and reclusive copper-mining heiress Huguette Clark, has been listed for $25.5 million. Rob Johnson and Mary Higgins of Brown Harris Stevens hold the listing.

    Though she was free to leave at any time, for two decades before her 2011 death at the age of 104, Clark lived quietly and simply at a reported cost of more than $800 a day in a Manhattan hospital room overlooking Central Park. During her long life, the doll collector and painter amassed a portfolio of rarely- and never-used homes that included a trio of sprawling co-operative apartments in the same aristocratic building on New York’s Fifth Avenue, a grand Italianate villa overlooking the ocean in Santa Barbara, and Le Beau Chateau, which she bought in 1951 as a potential refuge from a nuclear attack during the Cold War but, curiously enough, never spent a single night in.

    The Manhattan apartments were sold off shortly after she died for a combined $55 million, and the Santa Barbara mansion, known as Bellosguardo, which she had not visited in half a century, was bequeathed to a foundation that now offers limited docent tours.

    Geometric artworks add contemporary flair to the dining room’s period fireplace.

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    Clark’s unoccupied but always maintained Connecticut spread, which she had unsuccessfully attempted to sell a couple of times in the years before her death, was acquired in 2014 for $14 million—a steep discount from the original asking price of $34 million—by veteran fashion designer and tastemaker Reed Krakoff and interior designer Delphine Krakoff. The design- and architecture-savvy couple subsequently oversaw a respectful restoration and careful update that included the seamless integration of modern conveniences and luxuries.

    A long drive passes between a pair of modest cottages—a two-bedroom caretaker’s residence and a 1,300-square-foot exercise pavilion—and weaves across the property before arriving at a large motor court at the front of the 21-room French-style manor house that was originally built in 1937. Across the nearly 15,000-square-foot mansion’s three floors are nine bedrooms and 10 bathrooms, plus four additional powder rooms. Three of the 11 original fireplaces are still functional.

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    The Krakoffs opted for a neutral color palette of creams and beiges, with plush fabrics and art-friendly cotton-white walls that keep things light and bright. Antique chevron-patterned wood floors are underfoot throughout much of the main floor public rooms, as well as in many of the upper-floor bedrooms. Other highlights include a sweeping circular staircase, a vast living room alongside an equally spacious library, and a formal dining room jazzed up with a thoroughly modern, mold-like Cloud sculpture of interchangeable fabric tiles by French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec.

    The spacious primary bath showcases antique statuary, Louis VX-style chairs and a Lucite vanity.

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    To one side of the house is a formal garden, and at the rear, a vast lawn rolls down toward a simple rectangular pool hemmed in by a clipped hedgerow. A reconditioned tennis court is set in a sunny clearing near the estate’s gated entrance, while dense woodlands ensure complete privacy from neighboring estates.

    The Krakoffs, who maintain a Parisian hôtel particulier, have bought and sold a hefty number of other noteworthy homes on the East Coast. They sold a Manhattan townhouse in 2007 to Roger Waters of Pink Floyd, and in 2014 they sold an even more grand Big Apple townhouse for a staggering $51 million. And in the Hamptons, they once owned Lasata, the childhood summer residence of Jackie Kennedy. (It is now owned by fashion designer and filmmaker Tom Ford.) The couple has since custom built a striking new home in the Hamptons, a series of ultra-modern bunker-like glass and concrete pavilions overlooking the sandy dunes in Amagansett.

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    A Hollywood Producer’s Poolside Home in L.A. Hits the Market for $3.6 Million

    For over a decade now, Lati Grobman has owned a Los Angeles residence she purchased for nearly $2.6 million. Now the veteran producer—who as one-half of the female duo behind Campbell-Grobman Films has made numerous horror and action flicks ranging from Texas Chainsaw 3D to Expendables 4—is hoisting her modern home in the Beverly Grove/West Hollywood neighborhood up for sale with a million-dollar jump in price. The ask? Just a smidge under $3.6 million.

    Completed in 2013, the white stucco and flat-roof structure is tucked off a wide, tree-lined avenue amid a compact parcel spanning less than a quarter-acre and features a total of five bedrooms and six baths in roughly 3,700 square feet of two-level living space boasting blonde hardwood floors, high ceilings, and walls of glass throughout. There’s also a driveway and an attached two-car garage out front.

    An open great room rests beneath a 15-foot ceiling with a fireside seating area.

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    A staggered set of steps leads to the wood-slatted entry door, which opens into a voluminous great room sporting two fireside seating areas separated by an eye-catching floating staircase that just so happens to have a large window underneath abutting the pool and spa. Off to the side is a window-lined dining area, plus a gourmet kitchen outfitted with sleek cabinetry, an eat-in island, stainless appliances, and a wine fridge. Floor-to-ceiling pocketing glass doors open onto a covered terrace ideal for alfresco entertaining.

    The fireside primary suite comes complete with access to a private balcony.

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    A powder room and an en-suite bedroom can be found on the lower level, while four additional bedrooms upstairs include a spacious primary suite that has a fireplace, a private balcony and a custom closet with a built-in safe. The luxe bath holds dual vanities, a freestanding soaking tub, and a shower. Bordered by a concrete wall and mature trees, the secluded and grassy backyard hosts the aforementioned saltwater pool and spa flanked by a sundeck and a cozy fire pit, along with a barbecue station.

    Per the listing, which is held by Valerie Fitzgerald of Coldwell Banker Realty, the property also comes with ready-to-issue plans for a 1,200-square-foot accessory dwelling unit.

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    Late Gold’s Gym Owner Rainer Schaller’s Spanish Villa Lists for $78 Million

    Two years after he died in a tragic plane crash at age 53, a sprawling Mallorca estate owned by the late fitness mogul Rainer Schaller has just hit the market for the first time. Nestled amid the foothills of Spain’s Serra de Tramuntana mountains, the entire spread is asking a substantial $78 million.

    The former founder, owner and CEO of RSG Group, which operates fitness brands such as Gold’s Gym, McFit and John Reed in more than 30 countries, began assembling the compound back in 2016, per listing agent Alby Euesden of The Agency. Five structures connected by manicured gardens were completed in 2022, with three more buildings currently under development set to come online next year.

    The estate’s bohemian interiors are furnished with an mix of African and Indonesian accents.

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    “The inspiration for building such a property came from the owner’s desire to entertain family, friends and business associates … to build not just a family home, but a dream retreat of wellness and relaxation,” says Euesden. “Taking inspiration from his travels, Mr. Schaller combined the traditional style of Mallorcan rustic fincas with furniture and decor from around the world, including Indonesia and the African continent and Indonesia. As for the layout, the idea was to provide guests with the utmost privacy, whilst encouraging them to gather and meet at beautifully designed common areas.”

    Known as Torre del Sol, the 61-acre spread features two private villas with a combined 16 bedrooms and a matching number of baths, as well as heated floors and high-end sound and TV systems. There’s also a duo of entertaining spaces—one a pool house boasting a spacious dining area, a caterer’s kitchen, a cigar lounge, and two barbecue areas, and the other a sports pavilion with an entertaining space overlooking basketball, tennis, and volleyball courts. Rounding it all out is a decked-out relaxation spa with a sauna and massage rooms.

    An alfresco entertaining area is like something straight out of a movie.

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    Especially standing out are a fireside dining room, a gourmet kitchen, and numerous rooftop terraces with sweeping views of the mountains and Mediterranean Sea. Other highlights include a 65-foot infinity pool and spa surrounded by palm trees, as well as a private chapel, a wine cellar and tasting room, a game room, an indoor-outdoor gym, an alpaca sanctuary, a vineyard, multiple water wells, and a solar power system.

    Schaller, who amassed his RSG fitness empire and $250 million fortune from scratch, opened his first McFit gym in Germany in the late 1990s and later acquired Dallas-based Gold’s Gym for $100 million after the company filed for bankruptcy during the Covid-19 pandemic. He died along with his partner, her daughter, their son, an employee, and the pilot in October 2022 when a plane they were taking to a vacation crashed off the coast of Costa Rica.

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    Charlie Puth Is Selling His $11 Million Midcentury House in Beverly Hills to Josh Flagg

    He already owns a Beverly Hills fixer-upper that you might have seen featured on the latest season of Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles. Now word on the street has it that Josh Flagg has decided to plump up his property portfolio with another residence in the 90210, this one a renovated modernist spread in the posh Trousdale Estates neighborhood.

    As first reported by TMZ, the real estate broker and reality TV celeb is currently under contract to purchase the mid-1960s digs from singer-songwriter Charlie Puth for an undisclosed amount in an off-market deal. After first hitting the market late last year with a nearly $17 million ask, records show the house underwent several substantial price chops before landing at its current $11 million ask. The recently married Grammy-nominated musician originally acquired the home for around $9 million almost seven years ago, back in winter 2017. 

    Towering double doors open into 4,800 square feet of split-level living space.

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    Built and designed by noted architect Rex Lotery, the property is widely known as “The de Cordova House,” for its previous owners Freddie de Cordova, a longtime producer of The Tonight Show when it was hosted by Johnny Carson, and his socialite wife Janet. The split-level abode has four bedrooms and five baths in 4,800 square feet of living space boasting terrazzo-clad rooms flowing out to courtyards providing canyon and city lights views.

    Perched atop a ridge amid a roughly half-acre parcel of land, the stone, glass, and redwood structure is tucked away behind gates and high hedges and fronted by a spacious motorcourt with room for up to nine vehicles. Double front doors open into an entry foyer, which displays a striking floating staircase and steps descending to a soaring living room lined with built-in shelving and walls of glass.

    The garage has been converted into a fitness studio.

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    Other main-level highlights include a cozy sitting area warmed by a fireplace and a dining room topped with a sculptural chandelier, plus a gourmet kitchen outfitted with wood cabinetry, marble countertops, an eat-in island, commercial-grade appliances, and a hidden refrigerator. Upstairs, the primary suite has a spa-inspired bath equipped with dual vanities, a soaking tub, a steam shower, and a sauna, while the landscaped grounds come complete with a pool, a fire pit, and several spots ideal for alfresco lounging and entertaining.

    In addition to his soon-to-be-former Beverly Hills home, Puth also maintains properties in Studio City and Santa Barbara. As for Flagg, he still owns the aforementioned 7,100-square-foot Beverly Hills mansion that he picked up sight unseen in spring 2022 for $9.2 million, as well as a place on Miami Beach’s exclusive North Bay Road.

    Click here for more photos of Josh Flagg’s new Trousdale Estates home.

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    This $13 Million U.K. Country House Was Once Home to a British Movie Star

    Drummers Yard, formerly known as Birchens Spring, is among the U.K.’s most interesting country houses. Designed in 1938 by Arts and Crafts architect John Campbell, who lived in Germany for much of his career, the Grade II-listed property in Buckinghamshire graced the pages of Country Life before the once-glamorous estate fell into disrepair. Following years of neglect, the English manor notched another claim to fame when it was snapped up in 1960 by legendary British actor Dirk Bogarde, best known for his starring roles in Doctor in the House (1954), The Servant (1963), and The Night Porter (1974). 

    Modeled after the hillside villas of Italy combined with the stateliness of a Scottish castle, Bogarde remodeled Drummers Yard from top to bottom before offloading the place two years later to Peter Rogers, the producer of the wildly popular Carry On comedy film franchise, and his wife, Betty Box, who worked on the Doctor series that Bogarde appeared in. The sought-after spread traded hands once more in 1997 to the current owners, who, after nearly three decades in residence, have hoisted the property on the market for £10 million (or about $13 million). 

    A spacious reception room spills onto a large stone terrace.

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    “Campbell intended for each room to have at least two garden elevations, ensuring the house is light, bright, and airy with exceptional views of the gardens,” notes the listing, which is being represented by Knight Frank. “Whilst appealing to architectural purists, the house will equally suit families looking for a comfortable, well-laid-out home.” 

    Set on a whopping 12 wooded acres near Beaconsfield, the house itself has been adapted to contemporary living by award-winning interior and architectural studio, Tollgard Design. There are seven bedrooms and eight bathrooms across the main house’s 10,000 square feet. On the ground floor, potential buyers are welcomed by a grand entrance hall topped with a dramatic brick and stone arched ceiling. A corridor brings you to a sunroom that overlooks the garden, a circular-shaped formal dining area, a drawing room with a fireplace, and a thoroughly modern Scandinavian-inspired kitchen by Sola. The bedrooms are located on the home’s upper levels. 

    The updated minimalist kitchen is by Swedish design brand Sola.

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    Despite the many modern updates, rest assured you’ll find plenty of period details reminiscent of the Arts and Crafts movement, including its whitened brick arches and Cornish slate roof. In addition, the digs contain a private gym, complete with a sauna and a steam room, while the grounds are decked out with a two-car garage, a tennis court, and a separate two-bedroom cottage with its own entrance. 

    Click here to see more photos of Drummers Yard.

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    Jenn Tran of ‘The Bachelorette’ Gave Away Her Final Rose at This Exotic Hawaiian Estate

    Always wanted to live out your fantasy of being on one of TV’s top reality dating shows? Now’s your chance, because the picturesque estate where Jenn Tran’s final rose ceremony took place in early September on the Season 21 finale of The Bachelorette has just popped up for sale on the Big Island of Hawaii, asking $3.75 million.

    And though things didn’t quite work out for Tran—her proposal to Devin Strader fell apart shortly after the pair left paradise—this magical locale certainly serves as a prime backdrop for conjuring up some romance. Currently operating as a family-owned wedding and special events venue known as Pa’ina Place, the listing is held by Carrie Nicholson and Coco Scherer of Hawai’i Life. 

    The three-acre site currently serves as a wedding and special events venue.

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    Sited in the Kaloko area amid a lush parcel of land spanning just over three acres, along the slopes of the Hualalai Mountains within “the only tropical cloud forest in the U.S.,” the property features two main structures and a guest cottage, all overlooking the Pacific.

    The first main structure includes a full kitchen, one bedroom and a bath, while the second main structure also has its own kitchen and living area, plus two bedrooms and one-and-a-half baths. There’s also the guest cottage, which comes with a kitchenette, a cozy studio setup with a bath, a tropical-inspired outdoor shower, and an ocean-view barbecue deck. 

    A modern bridal suite comes complete with its own dressing room.

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    Outdoors, the grounds are laced with landscaped gardens and citrus trees and host meandering pathways leading to a great lawn flanked by a gazebo. There’s also an event pavilion equipped with a cooking station and lighting and sound systems, as well as a detached bridal suite sporting a dressing room and a bath with an al fresco shower, an entire building devoted to restrooms, two fire pits, an upper viewing platform, and plenty of parking.

    A 26-year-old physician assistant student who lives in Miami, Tran began her journey on The Bachelorette back in July as the show’s first Asian-American female lead in the franchise. Out of 25 suitors, she wound up proposing to Strader at the end, only to have him become distant after they left Hawaii and eventually break off the engagement over a phone call. Most recently, she’s been competing with pro partner Sasha Farber on Dancing With the Stars.

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    Billionaire Heir to the Hyatt Hotel Fortune Lists Bel Air Home For $195 Million

    Exterior Listed with KURT RAPPAPORT (310) 995-3214 of westside estate agency inc. LOCATION: 1261 Angelo Drive, Beverly Hills, California SQUARE FOOTAGE: 50,000 BEDROOMS & BATHROOMS: 16 bedrooms & 27 bathrooms PRICE: $195,000,000 This modern mega home is owned by Anthony Pritzker, a member of the Pritzker family and an heir to the Hyatt Hotel fortune. He […] More