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Audrey Hepburn’s Former Switzerland Home Can Be Yours for $21 Million
While no one can replace Audrey Hepburn, you can now live like the famed Hollywood starlet.
An 18th-century villa in Switzerland once belonging to the late My Fair Lady actress has landed on the market with Knight Frank for 19 million Swiss francs (or about $20.8 million). Hepburn, who died in 1993 at the age of 63, owned the palatial property from 1963 up until her passing, Bloomberg reported. Less than 10 years later, her sons sold the estate to Katharina Beaujolin and her husband, Jean-Marc Beaujolin, the current chairman of ECH Ltd.
“The house is called ‘La Paisible,’ which means ‘peaceful place,’ and it really is a peaceful place,” Katharina told Bloomberg, adding that Hepburn was her favorite actress growing up. “It has quite the amazing atmosphere.”
One of the living rooms in the roughly 10,800-square-foot house.
David Walls/Knight Frank
Located in the scenic town of Tolochenaz, roughly a half-hour outside of Geneva, the Grade II-listed mansion is set on over 40 leafy acres and measures approximately 10,763 square feet. Altogether, there are 12 bedrooms and eight bathrooms spread across the abode’s three levels. Since the Beaujolins moved in in 2001, they put the place through a sensitive renovation. Some of the changes they made included modernizing and repositioning the kitchen, remodeling the bathrooms, updating the electrical systems, and adding extra guest rooms.
The kitchen has been updated with modern cabinets, countertops, and appliances.
David Walls/Knight Frank
Highlights of the digs include its terra-cotta and oak parquet flooring, in addition to its five fireplaces, two stately staircases, library, and elevator. Rest assured, Hepburn’s legacy isn’t lost: A plaque out front bears the name of the Breakfast at Tiffany’s star. In addition, there are white rosebushes planted in the backyard that the actress received as a 60th birthday gift from Givenchy, Bloomberg reported.
Outside, you’ll also find a 50-foot heated swimming pool and parking for up to 15 cars. Katharina told the outlet that her family used to throw parties here in the summer for friends and that one of her six sons actually held his 150-person wedding on the grounds. Now that the couple’s children have moved out, the Beaujolins are comfortable parting ways with the oversized property. “We’ve decided to do some downsizing, because it’s just the two of us in this big house, and it felt like the right moment to make a change.”
Click here to see more photos of La Paisible.
David Walls/Knight Frank
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Abby Montanez
Abigail Montanez is a staff writer at Robb Report. She has worked in both print and digital publishing for over half a decade, covering everything from real estate, entertainment, dining, travel to…
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Lori Loughlin’s SoCal Estate Has Returned to the Market at a Discounted $16.5 Million
Almost a year after it first hit the market with a $17.5 million price tag, Lori Loughlin’s Southern California residence in the guard-gated city of Hidden Hills has lingered on the market with no takers. But now the modern farmhouse-style spread has popped up for sale again after a brief absence, this time with a substantially reduced $16.5 million ask. The listing is held by Tomer Fridman of Christie’s International Real Estate and Marc Shevin of Douglas Elliman.
The actress, who is probably best known for her turn as Aunt Becky on the long-running TV show Full House, and her fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli paid $9.5 million for the property back in summer 2020. Built in 2018 but renovated by the couple during their tenure, the two-story structure rests amid a gated parcel spanning over an acre in the coveted Ashley Ridge Estates enclave and offers six bedrooms and nine baths in nearly 12,000 square feet boasting maple floors, soaring ceilings, and sliding glass doors providing seamless indoor-outdoor environs.
A spacious double-height foyer introduces nearly 12,000 square feet of neutrally hued living space.
Wayne Ford
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Especially standing out on the main level are a fireside living area resting beneath a striking sky-lit ceiling and a formal dining room sitting across from a climate-controlled wine closet. Other highlights include a family room warmed by a fireplace, which connects via a casual dining space to a gourmet kitchen outfitted with custom white oak cabinetry, marble countertops, and high-end appliances.
Elsewhere are an office, a movie theater, and a gym, as well as a posh primary suite sporting a marble fireplace, a private balcony, and dual spa-like baths. The amenities continue outdoors, where the picturesque mountain-view grounds are laced with olive trees and hold a pool and spa, a bocce court, a fire pit, and a barbecue area. There’s also an attached four-car garage.
The living room is centered around a bookmatched marble fireplace stretching to the soaring sky-lit ceiling.
Wayne Ford
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The couple—who you might remember for their part in the high-profile college admissions scandal in 2019 involving their daughters Olivia Jade and Isabella Rose Giannulli—also own a $13 million desert vacation retreat at the Madison Club in California’s Coachella Valley, where some of their nearest neighbors include Apple’s Tim Cook, Nike’s Phil Knight, Justin Bieber, and multiple members of the Kardashian clan.
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Wayne Ford
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Wendy Bowman
Wendy Bowman is a real estate writer at Robb Report. Before that, she was a freelancer for Modern Luxury and several other media outlets, where she primarily covered luxury properties for…
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John Goodman’s Longtime Digs in The Big Easy Can Be Yours for $5.5 Million
There’s a famous Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong song called “Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?” Maybe John Goodman is about to find out.
More than 50 years after the veteran film, TV, and stage actor first flipped for the Louisiana city during a Mardi Gras trip with a group of his Missouri State frat brothers, then went on to marry a local girl and ultimately settled down there, he’s decided to hand over the keys to the historic Italianate-Greek Revival residence he and his wife Anna Beth have called home for the past 20 years. The asking price is a smidge under $5.5 million, which is around $3.7 million more than the Roseanne and The Conners star paid Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor for the place in an off-market deal back in 2005.
The chandelier-topped dining room is adorned with hand-painted hardwood floors, crown molding, and a stately fireplace.
Eugenia Gangi
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Built in the mid-1800s and known as the Joseph Merrick Jones House, the two-story white wood-sided and green-trimmed structure is nestled amid a corner parcel of land spanning over a quarter of an acre within the sought-after uptown Garden District neighborhood, near the iconic Commander’s Palace restaurant, St. Charles Avenue, and Magazine Street. A total of four bedrooms and five baths are spread across nearly 5,000 square feet of well-preserved living space, which features colorful interiors accented with 14-foot ceilings, intricate plaster medallions, hand-carved millwork, and six fireplaces.
A gated entry laced with ancient crepe myrtles provides access to the home, which boasts dual wraparound galleries complemented by columns and shuttered floor-to-ceiling windows. A classic entry hallway displaying a traditional staircase and a seating area notched into a bay window flows to a double parlor and a formal dining room with a hand-painted hardwood floor. A living room and an adjacent breakfast nook connect to the cobalt blue kitchen, which is dressed with a hand-stained shiplap ceiling, custom cabinetry, honed quartzite countertops, and Wolf appliances.
An inviting saltwater pool is lined with Mayan lion spray fountains.
Eugenia Gangi
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In addition to an office and a sitting room, the upstairs portion of the house holds a spacious primary suite flaunting a wraparound balcony, two walk-in closets, and a luxe bath equipped with a soaking tub and a separate shower. Three other bedrooms include two with their own baths and another that’s currently being used as a dressing room. And outdoors, the hedged grounds are dotted with gardens and host a covered veranda that can be privatized with drapes and a saltwater pool and spa embellished with Mayan lion spray fountains, as well as an attached two-car garage.
According to listing agent Hyatt Hood of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Preferred, Realtors, the Goodmans are selling because they simply don’t need as much space. “John and Anna Beth have spent the past 20 years raising their family in this beautiful home, and it has been a truly special place for them,” he says. “Now, as empty nesters, they are ready to downsize. Additionally, John’s busy work schedule keeps him traveling between both coasts and beyond. That said, they absolutely love New Orleans and will continue to maintain a home here—the city remains an important part of their lives.”
The 72-year-old Missouri native and his wife lost another home they purchased in 2007 for $4.6 million in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles to the recent wildfires.
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Eugenia Gangi
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Wendy Bowman
Wendy Bowman is a real estate writer at Robb Report. Before that, she was a freelancer for Modern Luxury and several other media outlets, where she primarily covered luxury properties for…
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YouTube Star Jordan Maron Has Traded One Pasadena Home for Another
Jordan Maron spent the tail end of last year unexpectedly shuffling his Pasadena property portfolio. Around three months after the successful YouTuber and Twitch streamer known as CaptainSparklez doled out $4.5 million for a contemporary spread with a showroom-style garage where he could better display his pricey collection of exotic cars, he wound up selling a hilltop midcentury-modern home about eight minutes away for a speck over $4 million, just $8,000 more than he paid less than a year ago.
Designed by noted modernist architect Lyman Ennis and completed in the 1950s, Maron’s recently sold post-and-beam house is perched above the Annandale Golf Club amid a gated 1.75-acre parcel in the North Arroyo neighborhood. Inside, the single-level abode features three bedrooms and two baths in a little more than 3,500 square feet boasting terrazzo floors and soaring wood-paneled ceilings throughout. Vast expanses of glass frame picturesque views of the surrounding San Gabriel Mountains.
A soaring living room in Maron’s recently sold residence steps up to the dining area and kitchen.
Jonathan Paris Bercowsky
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An office sits off the entry foyer, while a fireside living room steps up to a formal dining area, and an adjacent kitchen comes with quartz countertops, dual islands, premium appliances, and a secondary kitchen tucked around the corner. Secluded in its own wing is a primary suite with a raised-hearth fireplace and a spa-inspired bath showcased by a Japanese soaking tub. A seating area leads outdoors, where the grounds are laced with native plantings and hold a curvaceous pool, along with a covered loggia ideal for alfresco lounging and entertaining.
As for Maron’s newly acquired residence in the city’s Linda Vista enclave, the two-story concrete-hued and green-trimmed structure was built in 2002 by Renato Corzo and has three bedrooms and an equal number of baths in roughly 3,500 square feet of updated living space. There’s a living area sporting a fireplace flanked by built-in shelving and floor-to-ceiling walls of glass, as well as a formal dining room and a gourmet kitchen adjoining a family room with a mod-style fireplace.
The 1950s home designed by modernist architect Lyman Ennis is complemented by a curvaceous pool.
Jonathan Paris Bercowsky
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Other highlights include an office, a sizable primary suite containing a wet bar, and densely wooded grounds spanning nearly an acre and hosting a fire pit and a waterfall-enhanced infinity pool. Of course, there’s also the aforementioned detached garage for the avid car enthusiast.
Maron, 32, is a Los Angeles native who first gained online fame primarily via streaming his Minecraft gameplay on YouTube. Through the years, he’s garnered more than 4 billion lifetime views and roughly 14 million subscribers across his numerous channels on the platform.
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Jonathan Paris Bercowsky
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Wendy Bowman
Wendy Bowman is a real estate writer at Robb Report. Before that, she was a freelancer for Modern Luxury and several other media outlets, where she primarily covered luxury properties for…
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A Former Apple Exec’s San Francisco Apartment Just Hit the Market for $25.5 Million
Around 15 years ago, Jon Rubinstein doled out $7 million for a dated San Francisco apartment in a historic residential tower perched atop a hill in San Francisco’s affluent Pacific Heights neighborhood, across from Lafayette Park. Now the former Apple executive has hoisted the revamped residence back on the market, asking a substantially higher $25.5 million. Neal Ward of Compass holds the listing.
Though that’s a whopping $18.5 million more than Rubinstein and his wife Karen Richardson, a former technology and software executive, paid for the place back in late 2010, the couple did spend three years and upwards of $10 million gut-renovating the premises in collaboration with Paul Davis Architects. Gone are the formerly bland 1970s interiors in lieu of an elegant Parisian townhouse-like space boasting custom paneling and moldings, Paul Ferrante lighting, and hand-distressed oak parquet floors in chevron and Versailles patterns. Vast expanses of glass also offer up postcard-worthy views of the San Francisco Bay, Golden Gate Bridge, and beyond.
The fireside living room comes with an intimate seating area that opens to view terraces.
Brian Kitts
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Encompassing the entire fourth floor of the 10-story Beaux-Arts-style cooperative building on Washington Street, which was designed in the early 1920s by renowned Bay Area architect Conrad A. Meussdorffer, the Rubinstein home offers four bedrooms and five baths. More than 5,200 square feet of Mirella Forlani-designed living space features an array of posh perks ranging from a climate-controlled wine cellar that can accommodate up to 3000 bottles to a bedroom that’s been converted into a workout area complete with a sauna and steam shower.
A private elevator opens into the entry vestibule, which flows to a window-lined living room sporting a decorative marble fireplace and a conversation nook with French doors opening on either side to iron-railed terraces. Other highlights include a chandelier-topped dining room tucked behind pocketing doors and a handsome walnut-clad study/media room, as well as a sleekly modernized kitchen outfitted with imported Italian Arclinea cabinetry, a stainless island, Miele and Sub-Zero appliances, and a breakfast room.
The walnut-clad study/media room adjoins an office, both with built-in bookshelves.
Brian Kitts
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Sequestered down a hallway is the primary suite, which hosts a dressing room and fitted walk-in closet, along with a compartmentalized bath equipped with dual vanities, a soaking tub, and a glass-encased shower. Each of the three secondary bedrooms has its own bath, one outfitted with the aforementioned sauna and steam shower. Rounding it all out is a hefty $9,519 monthly HOA fee, which covers the building’s doorman and security services, a communal garden, two assigned parking spaces, and storage rooms.
Rubinstein, who was instrumental in developing Apple’s iMac and iPod products as senior vice president of hardware engineering, went on to become CEO of Palm and co-CEO of the global investment management firm Bridgewater Associates. He currently serves on the boards of Amazon and Robinhood. As first reported by The Wall Street Journal, the couple has decided to sell because they haven’t spent much time in California recently due to work-related travel. “Homes should be used,” said Rubinstein, who also owns a primary Florida residence in the seaside town of Vero Beach.
Click here for more photos of the Pacific Heights residence.
Brian Kitts
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Wendy Bowman
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M. Night Shyamalan’s Former N.Y.C. Penthouse Lists for $14.5 Million
Plot twist: this New York City penthouse used to be the home of an award-winning Hollywood filmmaker. M. Night Shyamalan, the 54-year-old visionary director behind Signs and The Sixth Sense, bought the duplex apartment in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood for $6.3 million in 2003, property records show. He then sold the pad nearly a decade later in 2012 for a profitable $9.5 million. The seller, whose identity is shielded behind an LLC, shelled out $12.75 million for the deluxe spread in 2021, and now, the spacious downtown abode has popped back up for sale asking $14.5 million. Chris Poore and Eyal Dagan of Sotheby’s International Realty hold the listing.
The penthouse crowns a six-unit boutique condo that dates back to 1888, the listing notes, and in the years since Shyamalan lived there, the two-floor condo has undergone a renovation but still maintains the same floating limestone staircase with a custom-sculpted bronze railing and cozy wood-burning fireplace. Today, the stunning loft-style residence measures a commodious 7,185 square feet and has four bedrooms, five bathrooms, a private elevator, and two outdoor terraces.
The home has three different living areas, one with a monumental fireplace.
Yale Wagner for Sotheby’s International Realty
“The celebrity factor can create buzz and make the property more desirable,” Poore told Mansion Global. And, “With three separate living rooms you have ample space for entertaining inside.”
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The place is decked out with soaring 13-foot ceilings, black-painted columns, and floor-to-ceiling windows that let in tons of natural light and offer skyline views. The home is centered around open-concept living and dining areas, including a state-of-the-art chef’s kitchen with custom cabinets and a black waterfall island at the center. Rounding out the lower level is an small office, a huge, 39-foot-long den, and three bedrooms, each with its own bath.
A telescopic wall slides opens to expose the office to the main-floor living room.
Yale Wagner for Sotheby’s International Realty
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The primary suite occupies its own dedicated wing on the second floor with exclusive access to one of the two planted terraces that together measure more than 2,000 square feet. The second terrace is at the opposite end of the penthouse and stretches a whopping 42 feet long.
Shyamalan, who most recently wrote and directed the 2024 psychological thriller Trap starring Josh Hartnett, owns multiple properties throughout the tri-state area. In 2023, he reportedly picked up a 218-acre estate in Pennsylvania’s Chester County with ties to the Rockefeller family. His portfolio also includes a Georgian Revival house outside of Philadelphia, which is not far from the filmmaker’s childhood home in Wynnewood that changed hands back in 2022 for $1.5 million.
Click here to see more photos of the Tribeca duplex.
Yale Wagner for Sotheby’s International Realty
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Abby Montanez
Abigail Montanez is a staff writer at Robb Report. She has worked in both print and digital publishing for over half a decade, covering everything from real estate, entertainment, dining, travel to…
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A Landmarked Hollywood Hills Bungalow by Architect John Elgin Woolf Lists for $4.6 Million
Crafted by out-of-the-box architect John Elgin Woolf in the late 1930s for Golden Age actor and TV editor Robert Seiter, this Hollywood Regency-style jewel box in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles was last sold in October 2017 for $2.7 million to director Francesco Carrozzini and his producer wife Bee. On and off the rental market since 2022, once for as much as $19,000 per month, it’s now resurfaced for sale at a dash under $4.6 million.
Whoever happens to buy the place will own a stunning example of Hollywood Regency design, at least according to Carl Gambino of Compass, who holds the listing. “It’s more than just a home, it’s a true work of art,” he says. “With so few of John Woolf’s creations remaining in pristine condition, they are incredibly rare and highly sought after.”
A light-filled living room features a curvilinear wall of glass flanked by tall French doors leading outside.
Tim Street-Porter
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Tucked away behind walls and gates amid a hillside parcel spanning just over half an acre in the Cahuenga Pass area, the home was acquired in the 1960s by local neurosurgeon Henry Dodge Jr., who collaborated with Woolf himself on an extensive remodel that included the addition of a two-story pool house.
Occupied in the 2000s by hotelier/restaurateur Sean MacPherson—who described it in a New York Times article as a “residential palace for Hollywood royalty”—and also leased at one time by designer Nate Berkus and his then-fiancé Jeremiah Brent, the finely cut gem was most recently restored by the current owners during their tenure and featured in Architectural Digest. It was listed as a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 2021.
The retro black-and-green kitchen features a restored antique stove and access to a walled courtyard.
Tim Street-Porter
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Hollywood Regency-style homes are an elegant and sometimes theatrical assemblage of various architectural styles. Distinguished on the exterior by a low-pitched hip roof and ornamental Neoclassic elements in the form of cartouche emblems and slim fluted columns, the two-bedroom, two-bath home boasts roughly 2,150 square feet of single-level living space decked out with inlaid parquet floors and high, chevron-patterned wood-clad ceilings. A pair of tall, slender Pullman-style doors, hallmarks of the Regency style, open into the white stucco structure, which is highlighted by a double-crescent living room sporting matching built-in bookcases and a delicately carved marble fireplace notched into a curvilinear 12-foot wall of glass overlooking the U-shaped pool area.
Other highlights include a fireside dining room and an eat-in kitchen with green-and-black checkered floors, a vintage 1950s stove, and access to a bricked courtyard patio, as well as a primary suite flaunting a bay window, a walk-in closet, and a bath equipped with a freestanding oval soaking tub. Rounding it all out is the inviting backyard, which is spotlighted by a heated pool and the aforementioned pool house with a deck up top and a partially subterranean garage down below.
Click here for more photos of the Hollywood Hills home.
Tim Street-Porter
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Wendy Bowman
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