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    The Beverly Hills Home of the Late CEO of Hasbro Lists for $27 Million

    A little more than three years after he died from cancer at age 58, the Beverly Hills home of longtime Hasbro chairman and CEO Brian Goldner has popped up for sale, asking $27 million. The listing is held by Antonio Bruno of Sotheby’s International Realty-Beverly Hills Brokerage and Tomer Fridman of Christie’s International Real Estate.

    Records show Goldner—best known as a visionary who transformed the Rhode Island-based maker of toys and games into an entertainment company with its own TV and movie studio during his lengthy 16-year tenure—and his wife Barbara paid around $18 million for the 1980s residence in 2020, shortly before he passed away in October 2021. Subsequently reimagined and renovated by noted Obama White House designer Michael S. Smith, the traditional-style home features five bedrooms and eight baths in almost 7,500 square feet of sumptuous living space spanning two levels.

    The fireside living room opens to a pergola-shaded patio via steel-framed French doors.

    Tyler Hogan for Sotheby’s International Realty

    RELATED: Fashion Mogul Julie Wainwright Just Sold Her Modern Beverly Hills Home for $10.7 Million

    Fully walled and gated and fronted by a manicured lawn, the estate is spread across a nearly half-acre parcel of land in the sought-after Flats neighborhood. A sage-hued front door leads into the mansard-roofed white brick and stucco structure, which is introduced by a double-height entry foyer sporting a curving iron-railed staircase topped by a sky-lit ceiling.

    Other highlights include a living room warmed by a veined-marble fireplace and a gourmet kitchen, which is outfitted with a central island, a high-end Caliber range, and an accompanying breakfast nook. There’s also a glamorous formal dining room lined with silver and white scenic wallpaper, plus a wood-paneled office and a massive primary suite that comes with a fireplace, a separate office, and dual baths.

    An open-air guesthouse/cabana next to the pool has been converted into a gym.

    Tyler Hogan for Sotheby’s International Realty

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

    Outdoors, the hedge-lined backyard is showcased by a pool with a spa and Baja shelf, as well as a built-in barbecue nestled alongside a pergola-shaded lounge area with a fireplace. Also on the premises is a guesthouse/cabana that’s currently being used as a gym, plus an attached two-car garage.

    As first reported by Mansion Gobal, the Goldner family is moving out of California. A clinical social worker, Barbara Goldner also owns property in Rhode Island.

    Click here for more photos of the late Hasbro CEO’s Beverly Hills home.

    Tyler Hogan for Sotheby’s International Realty

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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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    Fashion Mogul Julie Wainwright Just Sold Her Modern Beverly Hills Home for $10.7 Million

    Barely three months after Julie Wainwright put her strikingly modern residence in a prime pocket of Beverly Hills up for sale at nearly $12 million, the founder and former CEO of The RealReal has already offloaded the property. Records show the Steve Hermann-designed home traded hands for a discounted $10.7 million, which is still around a million dollars more than she paid Tony & Guy co-founder Bruno Mascolo for the place in 2021. Compass real estate broker and Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles star Josh Flagg repped both sides of the transaction, describing it as “hands down the best deal in Trousdale Estates.”

    Built in 2009 and fully customized to suit Wainwright’s tastes during her tenure, the gated architectural-style structure is touted in the listing as having a “harmonious blend of elevated luxury”—from the alluring courtyard punctuated by terrazzo fountains to the chic interiors offering 4,500 square feet of single-level living space boasting vast expanses of glass providing seamless indoor-outdoor environs and sweeping city views from almost every vantage point.

    A spacious family room is outfitted with a wall of shelves and a sexy linear fireplace.

    Paul Barnaby

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    Highlights include a spacious living room outfitted with a wall of shelves holding sundry eye-catching trinkets and a sexy linear fireplace topped by a TV. A sleek Poliform kitchen boasts high-gloss floating cabinetry, dual ovens and an eat-in peninsula, while the formal dining area opens to the outside on two sides. Five ensuite bedrooms include a massive primary suite, which comes with a stone fireplace, a glass-enclosed dressing room, and a luxe bath sporting an Antonio Lupi soaking tub.

    Outdoors, the half-acre-plus grounds include an infinity pool and spa surrounded by a flat grassy yard, along with a teakwood deck and built-in benches ideal for relaxing and entertaining. In addition to a mirror-lined gym and an attached two-car garage, the full-fledged smart home also has automated window treatments, a state-of-the-art Control4 system, and a server room.

    An expansive teakwood deck and infinity-edge pool offer panoramic views that stretch to the ocean.

    Paul Barnaby

    RELATED: Charlie Puth Sold His $11 Million Midcentury House in Beverly Hills to Josh Flagg

    An internet and tech pioneer, Wainwright launched the online video site Reel.com in 1997 and later took the reins as CEO of Pets.com. After the tech bubble burst, the site collapsed under crippling $300 million debt soon after going public in 2000. The Purdue graduate was active in numerous other online startups before 2011, when she founded The RealReal. Though she stepped down as CEO in 2022, the company is still one of the world’s largest online marketplaces for the resale of authenticated luxury goods, with more than 27 million members and 19 retail sites nationwide.

    Besides her just-sold Beverly Hills digs, Wainwright, who has a reported $25 million net worth, also owns a $6.8 million condo on a high floor of a posh tower on the edge of New York City’s Financial District, near City Hall.

    Click here for more photos of the Trousdale Estates home.

    Paul Barnaby

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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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    Lizzo’s Modern Beverly Hills Home Just Hit the Market for $16 Million

    Now that Lizzo has doled out $12.4 million for actor Jeremy Renner’s longtime midcentury digs in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, the Grammy-winning singer, rapper, and classically trained flutist has decided to put her other home that’s tucked away in a celeb-favored enclave in the mountains above Beverly Hills on the market. The ask is an impressive $16 million, which is a whopping million dollars more than she paid for the place a little more than two years ago.

    Records show the Detroit-born musician acquired the modern spread from Warner Brothers CEO and co-chairman Aaron Bay-Schuck in spring 2022 for $15 million. Sited on a third of an acre in an exclusive gated community where nearby neighbors include Lisa Vanderpump, Jessica Alba, and Demi Moore, the property was previously owned by English pop singer Harry Styles from 2014 to 2016. Subsequently demolished and rebuilt by Simo Design and Fischer Construction, the sleek wood and stone structure ultimately sold to Bay-Schuck in late 2019 for $11 million.

    Secluded behind walls and gates, the two-story residence has three bedrooms and five baths in roughly 5,400 square feet of L-shaped living space centered around an open-air atrium. Floor-to-ceiling walls of glass frame sweeping canyon and hillside views, with glitzy amenities encompassing a gym and wellness area, as well as a movie theater and a studio/office.

    Other highlights include a formal dining room topped with fanciful globe lighting, plus an adjacent living room sporting a two-way fireplace that connects on the other side to a gourmet kitchen seamlessly flowing to a covered outdoor lounge area. A massive primary suite hovers atop the backyard’s saltwater infinity pool and comes with a luxe bath spotlighted by a floating soapstone fireplace and a concrete soaking tub. The oak tree-laced grounds also host a kitchen setup and a fire pit. More

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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.

    Marc Angeles

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

    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.

    Marc Angeles

    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.

    Marc Angeles

    RELATED: Floyd Mayweather Just Put His Knockout Beverly Hills Mansion on the Market for $48 Million

    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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    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.

    Cris Nolasco

    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.

    Cris Nolasco

    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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    Red Hot Chili Pepper Anthony Kiedis’s Former Beverly Hills Home Lists for $11.25 Million

    If you want these kinds of digs, it’s Californication!

    Anthony Kiedis, the frontman for the Los Angeles-based rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, snapped up a Tuscan-esque home in Beverly Hills way back in 2004, around the same time the group recorded their Grammy-winning album, Stadium Arcadium. The lead singer lived at the gated Davis Drive residence until 2007, when he sold it to screenwriter-director Akiva Goldsman, best known for scripting the four-time Oscar-winning 2001 biopic A Beautiful Mind starring Russell Crowe.

    Property records show that Goldsman offloaded the three-and-a-half-acre compound in 2018 for $7.8 million to Seagram heir Eli Bronfman and his then wife Nicole Gertner. In 2022, after they split up, the vine-covered estate was transferred to Gertner, while Bronfman went on to drop $35 million in an off-market deal for a bachelor pad in New York City.

    Heavy wood ceiling beams and a massive fireplace anchor the light-filled living room.

    Todd F. Goodman/LA Light

    All that to say, Gertner is now parting ways with Kiedis’s former abode and has put the place up for sale. This time, the property is priced at a cool $11.25 million. Carl Gambino and Alyson Richards of Compass share the listing with Drew Fenton at Carolwood Real Estate. 

    Originally built in 1951, the 6,000-square-foot spread comprises five bedrooms and five-and-a-half baths. The lavish retreat is oozing with Old World charm and benefits from a bell tower that’s still intact. Accessed via a spiral staircase, the space not only serves as an interesting design element but is equipped to double as an office or a workout studio.

    French doors open to wrought-iron Juliet balconies in the fireside primary suite.

    Todd F. Goodman/LA Light

    Internally, the residence channels a certain European je ne sais quoi with elegant paned windows, glassy French doors, exposed beam ceilings, and stately fireplaces. There are also tons of terracotta tile, natural stone, raw wood, and wrought-iron accents throughout. On the first floor, you’ll find a living area grand in proportions and an open-concept chef’s kitchen. The latter is kitted out with a walk-in pantry with lots of storage and a cozy breakfast nook.  

    Among the more opulent features is the primary suite, which occupies the second level. In true rockstar fashion, the room is complete with private balconies, dual walk-in closets, and a spa-like ensuite bathroom. Outside, the grounds feel akin to a Zen-like sanctuary filled with lush greenery and a trellis-covered patio. An alfresco fireplace, swimming pool, and dining area are certainly perks. 

    Click here to see more photos of Anthony Kiedis’s former home.

    Todd F. Goodman/LA Light

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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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    Late Photographer Melvin Sokolsky’s Beverly Hills Home Hits the Market for $7 Million

    What do Mia Farrow, Natalie Wood, Twiggy and Ricardo Montalbán’s iconic “Corinthian leather” ads for Chrysler in the 1970s have in common? Melvin Sokolsky, the late, great and wildly imaginative surrealist fashion photographer and acclaimed TV commercial director who not only made portraits of some of Hollywood’s biggest stars and created innovative fashion shoots for Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue and The New York Times, but hoovered up 25 Clio Awards for his many advertising gigs along the way.

    Sokolsky was prized for bringing a surrealist approach to his fashion photographs.

    Melvin Sokolsky©

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    In the 1970s, the native New Yorker was based on the West Coast where he acquired a secluded English Country-style cottage in the foothills of Benedict Canyon in Beverly Hills. Now, two years after his death at the age of 88, his beloved private sanctuary is being sold by his son Bing Sokolsky for just under $7 million. The boomerang-shaped hillside home, originally built in 1939 and designed by artist and architect Frederic Barienbrock for a silent screen actress, according to marketing material, is listed with Susan Andrews and Martin Withrow of Compass.

    A quick one-mile hop from The Beverly Hills Hotel and tucked into the southern shadow of Michael Ovitz’s avant garde mansion, the self-taught snapper’s residence is hidden behind iron gates at the end of a sleepy cul-de-sac. Far less theatrical than some of his more memorable fashion shoots, such as those in which models appear suspended above Paris in translucent spheres, the home is imbued with a relaxed traditional style. 

    The wood-paneled study has a contemporary stone fireplace and access to a wraparound terrace.

    Shad Yassini / No22 Media

    There are, however, many elements throughout the five-bedroom and three-and-a-half-bath home’s 3,400 square feet that speak to Sokolsky’s expansive imagination. Among them are a ceiling painted like a lightly cloudy sky in the foyer and a mural-lined powder room inspired by Edgar Degas. 

    The living room has a baronial stone fireplace and built-in bookshelves; the dining room has a stunning view of the Century City skyline poking above the treetops; and the kitchen sports rustic wood counters and commercial-grade appliances. Like the living room, a cozy, wood-paneled study with a fireplace opens to a covered terrace that runs along the back of the house with sunrise to sunset vistas.

    Mullioned windows frame panoramic skyline views from almost every room in the 1930s residence.

    Shad Yassini / No22 Media

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    Bedrooms are tucked down onto the lower level. There are two small bedrooms and a shared bath accessible by their own staircase just off the kitchen, while another staircase leads from the foyer down to an ample pair of en suite bedrooms that flank a library that’s convertible to another bedroom. The larger bedroom suite, the primary, includes a spacious modern bath and a huge walk-in closet, plus a separate dressing room. 

    The two larger bedrooms spill onto a large brick terrace, and the 18,000-square-foot hillside parcel also includes a sunny lower terrace with an elegant, though not currently filled, oval swimming pool.

    Click here for more photos of the Beverly Hills Home.

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    Floyd Mayweather Just Put His Knockout Beverly Hills Mansion on the Market for $48 Million

    After seven years of ownership, Floyd Mayweather Jr. has decided to return his lavish mansion tucked into the heart of Beverly Hills back to the market. The ask is an impressive $48 million, which is a whopping $22.5 million more than the former pro boxer and current exhibition fighter originally paid for the French Modern-style spread.

    Records show Mayweather doled out $25.5 million in cash for the property back in 2017, shortly before he retired. Sited behind high hedges and iron gates on a half-acre parcel that’s next door to the Beverly Hills Hotel, the all-white structure was built on spec by Los Angeles-based real estate developer Nile Niami, who picked up the 1990s home that previously stood on the property in 2014 for $16.5 million from Marianne Metropoulos, wife of billionaire businessman C. Dean Metropoulos. 

    A cocktail bar and glass-encased wine display are just some of the home’s numerous amenities.

    Jim Bartsch

    A snazzy marble-clad foyer boasting a dangling chandelier hanging from a coffered ceiling introduces the residence, which contains a total of six bedrooms and 10 baths spread across more than 15,000 square feet. Glitzy amenities include a handsome wood-paneled library and a cocktail bar flanked by a glass-encased wine display, plus a separate guesthouse that comes with a movie theater, a Miele-equipped concession stand, a gym, staff quarters, and a four-car garage.

    Among the other standout features is a living room sporting a decorative fireplace surrounded by a mirrored accent wall and 10 sets of French doors spilling outside, as well as a formal dining room and a sleekly designed kitchen outfitted with an eat-in island and an accompanying breakfast nook. A plush primary suite flaunts a private terrace and dual walk-in closets and baths, while the resort-like grounds are spotlighted by a pool and spa sitting amid a black-and-white striped sundeck.

    A fireside living room has dark herringbone-patterned wood floors and 10 sets of French doors.

    Jim Bartsch

    In addition to his Beverly Hills home, which is listed by Josh Altman and Matt Altman of Douglas Elliman, the 47-year-old Michigan native—who is estimated to have brought in more than $1 billion in total earnings during his boxing career—still owns a $10 million mansion in Las Vegas and a Miami Beach compound he acquired in 2021 for $18 million.

    Click here for more photos of Floyd Mayweather’s Beverly Hills mansion.

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