Beverly Hills

Earlier this year, the longtime Beverly Hills home of the late Jackie Collins hit the market for a whopping $66 million. A neighboring property the British romance novelist also owned and famously leased to Al Pacino simultaneously became available with Bobby Syed of Coldwell Banker Realty for a much more affordable $16 million.

Both places are currently owned by real estate investor Ben Nehmadi and his wife Bita, who purchased Collins’ primary residence and the Pacino-occupied house next door about a year after Collins’s 2015 death for $21 million and $9 million, respectively. The Triple Crown of Acting winner occupied the latter place for nearly 20 years, from 2006 until late 2024, calling the Hollywood Wives writer “the greatest landlord anyone could have.”

A lounge area has been decked out with framed posters from “The Godfather.”

Jack Bremen

Built in the early 1920s and since remodeled, most notably in 1938 by esteemed architect Douglas Honnold, the traditional six-bedroom, six-bath abode is securely tucked away behind a pedestrian entrance and a gated circular driveway, on almost three-quarters of an acre in the sought-after Flats neighborhood. Inside, roughly 5,300 square feet of two-level living space is easily showcased by a sprawling wood-paneled great room containing a fireside family room and an adjacent entertaining area with a seated bar.

Other highlights include a formal living area anchored by a fireplace, as well as a chandelier-topped dining room flaunting a curving picture window and pale blue walls complemented by white wainscoting. The white color palette continues in the kitchen, which boasts stained-glass windows, ceramic tile countertops, Wolf appliances, a separate prep area, and a breakfast nook.

An expansive brick terrace off the rear of the home features a built-in barbecue and fireplace.

Jack Bremen

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Elsewhere is an office sporting a fireplace and built-in shelving, along with an upstairs primary suite holding a walk-in closet and a decidedly dated bath with a glass and brass-accented shower. Outdoors, the private and grassy grounds host an alfresco lounging and dining terrace enhanced with a built-in barbecue and fireplace, a pool and spa, and a full-size tennis court, plus a porte-cochère leading to a detached two-car garage.

As for Pacino, who appeared last year in the Johnny Depp-directed film Modì, Three Days on the Wing of Madness, he is far from homeless. The 84-year-old New York native’s primary home remains a waterfront estate in the Palisades enclave of New York that he’s owned since the 1970s.

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Jack Bremen

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Wendy Bowman

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Former supermodel and Pirelli calendar girl Christina Estrada’s Los Angeles home is officially walking the real estate runway. The ex-wife of the late Saudi billionaire Walid Juffali is asking $26 million for her Italian-style villa in a prime pocket of Beverly Hills, with the listing held by Gary Gold of Forward One. Built in the […] More

Back in early 2007, shortly after she filed for divorce from Kevin Federline after three years of marriage, Britney Spears doled out nearly $6.8 million for a Mediterranean-style villa high in the mountains above Beverly Hills. For the next few weeks or so, the residence served as ground zero for many headline-making moments in the pop superstar’s life, from shaving her head to attacking a paparazzo’s car with an umbrella. Though she owned it for a number of years, she reportedly only lived there a short time before flipping it back on the market and permanently decamping to the San Fernando Valley in 2009.

The 2001-built estate has since changed hands a few times, first in 2012 when Australian venture capitalist Jeff Friedmann picked it up for just under $4.3 million, a nearly $2.5 million loss for Spears, and most recently in spring 2022 for roughly $6.6 million. Now the 90210 spread in the exclusive guard-gated enclave of The Summit has just popped up for sale again, this time for a speck under $8 million. The listing is held by Ben Salem of Compass.

A double-height foyer passes beneath a bridge on its way to the fireside living room.

Simon Berlyn

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Featuring almost 7,500 square feet of recently renovated living space, with six bedrooms and seven baths filtered across two levels, the creamy stucco and terracotta-roof structure is tucked away behind hedges and trees on a cul-de-sac, where a driveway opens to a motor court and an attached three-car garage.

Once inside, a double-height, dance-worthy foyer topped with a chandelier flows via patterned stone floors to a soaring living room boasting an oversized fireplace flanked by bookshelves. A wide archway leads to a formal dining room with French doors spilling out to a patio, while a fireside family room with a wet bar connects to a kitchen outfitted with granite countertops, dual islands, Wolf and Sub-Zero appliances, and a windowed breakfast nook.

The tree-shaded backyard is entertainment-ready with a pool and spa, plus a built-in barbecue.

Simon Berlyn

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In addition to a primary suite flaunting a covered balcony, there’s also a library/office and a soundproof music studio that doubles as a screening room. Topping it all off is the bougainvillea- and palm-laced backyard, which hosts a built-in barbecue, a fire pit, and a saltwater pool with a Baja shelf and a raised spa.

The Toxic crooner, who sold a Calabasas estate in 2023 for around $10 million, still maintains her longtime Italianate-inspired mansion in the unincorporated Hidden Valley region near Thousand Oaks that she bought back in late 2015 for $7.4 million.

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Simon Berlyn

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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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Now that Steve Wynn and his wife Andrea Hissom have scooped up a $12.9 million property in Florida’s tony West Palm Beach enclave near Mar-a-Lago, with plans to raze the existing house to make way for a larger and more modern mansion, the former Las Vegas casino mogul is doubling down on his efforts to sell a particularly lavish Beverly Hills mega-mansion he’s owned for nearly a decade.

Almost five years after the palatial property first splashed onto the market with an ambitious $135 million ask, it’s once again come up for grabs. And in what could only be described as a case of déjà vu, the estate is being offered for the same exact $75 million Wynn was seeking in early 2024 before the price jumped to $85 million later that year .

“To find 2.7 acres within the city of Beverly Hills is very rare, so the seller tested the market at the end of 2020 at $135 million and in fact received a significant offer,” says Leonard Rabinowitz of Christie’s International Real Estate Southern California, who currently holds the listing. “However, they had not found a replacement property and therefore were not particularly motivated. They have since found a new waterfront property and are quite motivated, hence the reduction.”

The decadent blue-and-white living room is warmed by a carved marble fireplace.

Jim Bartsch

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Originally built and crafted by architect William Hablinski in the 1990s for Guess co-founder Maurice Marciano, the 90210 residence was purchased by Wynn in 2015 for around $48 million and subsequently underwent a multimillion-dollar remodel. Nestled behind gates off Benedict Canyon Drive, the home features 11 bedrooms and 13 baths in 27,000-plus square feet of Roger Thomas-designed living space decked out with luxe amenities ranging from a professional-grade movie theater and a spa suite to a gym and a wine room.

Within the multi-level residence is a double-height entry foyer that flows to a crimson-hued reception room with a wet bar, along with an opulent living room overlooking city lights views and a fireside dining room with access to a covered terrace that’s ideal for alfresco entertaining. A posh primary suite sports a private office and dual baths, closets, and dressing rooms. Additional sleeping quarters include four en suite guest bedrooms, a guest lanai suite with its own kitchen and living room, three staff bedrooms with a shared kitchen, and two security team bedrooms with a shared kitchenette.

An alfresco lounging space overlooking the city skyline comes with a custom fire pit.

Jim Bartsch

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Outdoors, the Robert Truskowski-landscaped grounds are showcased by manicured lawns and gardens, plus a sundeck-encased pool flanked by an ivy-covered pool house with a kitchen and changing rooms and a lighted tennis court accompanied by an air-conditioned seating house.

In addition to his California and Florida estates, Wynn still owns a New York penthouse that he’s been trying to offload for several years, as well as a four-acre estate in the Idaho city of Ketchum that was recently listed for sale but has since been removed from the market.

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Jim Bartsch

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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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Almost 10 years after Jackie Collins succumbed to breast cancer at age 77, a Beverly Hills trophy estate best known as the longtime home of the bestselling British romance novelist and younger sister of actress Dame Joan Collins has popped up for sale with a substantial $66 million price tag. The listing is held by Richard Maslan and Susan Smith of Carolwood Estates.

Custom-built for the “Hollywood Wives” writer and her second husband, nightclub owner and theater and film producer Oscar Lerman, in collaboration with noted architect Ardie Tavangarian, the residence was inspired by the clean lines and pop-art color blocking of David Hockney’s pool painting titled “A Bigger Splash.” It was completed in the early 1990s, shortly before Lerman died from prostate cancer.

An employee gazes upon David Hockney’s painting “A Bigger Splash” on display at the Tate Britain in London.

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Upon the death of Collins in 2015, her three daughters inherited the estate. The property sold the following year for $21 million to real estate investor Ben Nehmadi and his wife Bita, who spent five years and around $25 million gut-renovating the premises, according to The Wall Street Journal. The couple also paid an additional $9 million in an off-market deal for a neighboring house also owned by Collins’s estate. It had long been leased by actor Al Pacino and is now on the market separately for $16 million.

Tucked away behind walls and gates in 90210’s desirable Flats neighborhood, the property includes a modern mansion and a spacious guesthouse spread across just under an acre of land facing the Hollywood Hills. There is a total of seven bedrooms and 14 baths in roughly 21,000 square feet of Gavin Brodin-designed living space punctuated with Italian marble and bespoke woodwork.

The home’s main living area boasts a marble fireplace, seated wet bar and access to the outdoors.

Marc Angeles

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A towering marble and bronze door pivots open into the two-story residence, which is introduced via a double-height foyer displaying a built-in aquarium and a curving staircase resting beneath a massive chandelier. From there, an expansive fireside living and entertaining area comes with a seated wet bar and pocketing doors spilling out to a terrace, while the formal dining room features a glassy wine display.

A bookshelf-clad family room flows to the gourmet kitchen, which is outfitted with a pair of islands, top-tier Miele and Sub-Zero appliances, and a breakfast nook with access to an alfresco dining space, while an upstairs primary suite spanning around 2,500 square feet sports a balcony, a cozy lounge area warmed by a fireplace, an adjoining office, and dual walk-in closets and baths.

The sprawling primary suite has a pool-view balcony and its own fireside seating area.

Marc Angeles

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Connected to the main house via a lengthy art gallery is the two-level guesthouse, which includes offices and a manager’s suite, plus a gym, sauna, and screening room. Topping it all off are the newly landscaped grounds, which are showcased by a pool and spa nestled alongside an open-air cabana equipped with a kitchen and bar setup, along with a spacious motor court flanked by two garages that can accommodate up to six vehicles.

Per WSJ, the founder and managing principal of Republic Investment Company and his spouse are selling because they travel often and don’t spend enough time in the Beverly Hills home.

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Marc Angeles

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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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