Brentwood

Ever since prolific director/producer Judd Apatow and actress Leslie Mann sold their Los Angeles estate for a whopping $27 million last fall, curious minds have wondered who bought the powerhouse Hollywood couple’s longtime home. Shrouded in secrecy, the blockbuster sale was the second-biggest deal recorded in L.A.’s ultra-posh Brentwood neighborhood in 2023, though the house was never officially listed on the market.

As it turns out, the buyers are longtime Brentwood Park residents Brian and Rosie Panish, married attorneys and he the L.A. native who co-founded Panish Shea Boyle & Ravipudi LLP, one of California’s most successful personal injury firms.

While it may seem odd that a lawyer can afford to pay $27 million—in cash, no less—for a house, Panish isn’t exactly your everyday lawyer. Long considered one of the U.S.’s top trial attorneys, the 66-year-old has obtained more than 30 eight-figure jury verdicts for his clients, more than any other attorney in California. In the 1990s, he represented the plaintiffs in the landmark case of Anderson v. General Motors, which resulted in a record-setting $4.9 billion jury verdict.

Over the years, Panish has also represented clients in high-profile Hollywood cases, including cinematographer Halyna Hutchins’ family in the legal fallout surrounding her accidental shooting death by actor Alec Baldwin. He’s perhaps best known to the general public, however, for having represented the family of Michael Jackson in their $1.5 billion wrongful-death lawsuit against AEG.

Because the Apatow-to-Panish deal was inked off-market, photos and details of the property are mostly nonexistent. Built by Prison Break producer Marty Adelstein in the mid-2000s, the casually luxe estate was home to Apatow and Mann for more than a decade—since 2009, when they paid Adelstein $18 million for the place.

Long and rambling, the East Coast traditional-style main house sits behind tall hedges and magnolia trees. There are five bedrooms and seven bathrooms in just over 10,000 square feet of living space, per tax records. Also on tap are an in-ground trampoline in the grassy backyard, plus mature sycamore trees, a dark-bottom swimming pool, a detached pool house and a three-car garage that’s linked to the main house by a covered and enclosed walkway.

For the last 20 years, the Panishes have owned a smaller but no less lavish home elsewhere in the Brentwood Park neighborhood, this one featuring an East Coast traditional-style house with about 9,000 square feet of living space. In 2022, the couple paid $6 million for a mansion with an infinity-edge pool just outside Las Vegas, in the Nevada community of Henderson.

As for Apatow and Mann, they still maintain a $9 million condo in New York City’s desirable West Village neighborhood. More

Always wanted a sacred space to indulge your faith without ever having to leave the sanctity of your own property? Look no further! Your proverbial prayers have finally been answered.

Almost three months after he passed away at age 91, the Los Angeles residence of golf resort and airport entrepreneur David G. Price has popped up for sale, asking $38.5 million. Consisting of three contiguous parcels spanning 1.4 acres—and nestled on the same street as an equally pricey mansion owned by Formula One heiress Petra Ecclestone and her husband, real estate agent Sam Palmer—the multi-building compound sits in the exclusive Brentwood Park neighborhood and comes complete with its very own private chapel.

The Prices built their chapel after finding faith as older adults, and used it as a space “to go and have time and quiet and to study,” according to The Wall Street Journal.

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Records show Price—best known for his stewardship of the American Golf and American Airport corporations for more than 40 years—and his longtime wife Helen paid around $5.5 million in 1999 for a Spanish Colonial Revival-style house built in the late 1920s. They subsequently doled out roughly $5 million for two additional lots, then razed some existing structures and added a Mission Revival-style chapel with an attached potting shed and two-car garage, plus a two-bedroom guesthouse that connects via a covered breezeway to a pool house with a living room and kitchen—for a total of six bedrooms and seven baths in almost 8,200 square feet of living space.

Fully walled and gated, and known as “Camino con Cristo,” the main residence is believed to have been originally designed by famed California architect John Byers. Later expanded and upgraded by Thomas Callaway, the interiors are rife with vaulted ceilings, wrought-iron details and numerous French doors providing seamless indoor-outdoor environs. There’s also an attached three-car garage.

A country-style kitchen features an adjacent breakfast room boasting a fireplace and French doors spilling outside.

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Other highlights include a living room warmed by a fireplace, formal dining room, and country-style kitchen outfitted with wood beams, hand-painted and stenciled details, and a fireside breakfast room. There’s also a formal dining room, as well as a library lined with built-in bookshelves, family rooms and an office.

Upstairs, the primary bedroom hosts a fireplace, private balcony, walk-in closet and dual baths; and outdoors, the park-like grounds are showcased by multiple fountains, courtyards, gardens and meandering pathways, along with a swimming pool, and an eye-catching timber and masonry loggia sporting a stone-clad fireplace.

Avid gardeners will especially love the potting shed found on the premises.

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Per The Wall Street Journal, which first reported that the residence was hitting the market, Price’s 78-year-old widow has decided to sell because she wants to move to the Dallas area to be closer to her son and daughter…and “it is a lot of property for one person.”

The listing is shared by mother-son team David Solomon and Anna Solomon of Douglas Elliman, and Evan Pozarny and Laura Pozarny of Muselli Commercial Realtors.

Click here for more photos of David Price’s Brentwood Park house.

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After nearly 14 years of ownership, Los Angeles-based businessman David Calvert-Jones has decided to part ways with his longtime residence in the horse-friendly Sullivan Canyon community, on the border of Brentwood and Pacific Palisades. The Australian-born nephew of billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch together with his wife Karina are asking a speck under $21.5 million for their revamped spread, which the couple acquired for just over $4 million.

Before that, the home was owned for almost five decades by Hollywood actress and activist Maxine Cooper, who is best known for her role as private detective Mike Hammer’s secretary Velda in the 1955 film noir classic Kiss Me Deadly, as well as appearances in the TV shows Dragnet, Perry Mason and The Twilight Zone. She and her Oscar-nominated producer and screenwriter husband Sy Gomberg purchased the place for a mere $122,500 back in the mid-’60s.

The Cliff May-designed home is fronted by a cobblestone motorcourt flanked by an attached three-car garage.

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Originally built and designed in the early ’40s by noted architect Cliff May, the equestrian property underwent an extensive renovation and expansion during the Calvert-Joneses tenure, and includes a five-bedroom, five-bath house featuring a little more than 6,200 square feet of split-level living space adorned throughout with a mix of stone and rustic hardwood floors, vaulted wood-beam ceilings, ample built-ins, and steel-framed windows and doors framing picturesque views of the garden-laced grounds.

Hidden away on a leafy cul-de-sac parcel spanning nearly two-thirds of an acre, within the Riviera Ranch enclave that May developed, the creamy stucco, stone and terra-cotta-roof structure is known as “Paradise Found,” and secluded behind walls and a gated driveway lined with mature olive trees. Once inside via an attractive hand-carved wood door, a fireside living room doubles as a screening room and a formal dining room rests beyond a decoratively trimmed entrance with pocketing wood doors.

Eye-catching walls and an antler chandelier are part of the breakfast room’s unique charm.

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A glass-lined breakfast room topped by an antler chandelier connects to the gourmet kitchen, which is outfitted with an expansive eat-in island, a pantry and high-end stainless appliances, and other highlights include a family room and private office space. There’s also an inviting primary bedroom suite sporting a sitting area nestled beside a cozy fireplace, two sets of French doors leading outside, a walk-in closet, and spa-like bath equipped with dual vanities, a built-in soaking tub and separate shower.

In addition to a large detached guesthouse and horse stable, the exterior amenities also consist of a central courtyard hosting a lengthy swimming pool flanked by an open-air cabana warmed by a fireplace, several al fresco lounging and entertaining spots, and a spacious motorcourt flanked by an attached three-car garage.

Set on nearly two-thirds of an acre, the property includes a structure where you can keep your horses.

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The listing is shared by Drew Fenton and Bjorn Farrugia of Carolwood Estates, and Jade Mills of Coldwell Banker Realty.

Click here for more photos of the “Paradise Found” house.

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Though Dave Hagewood enjoys sailing the seas aboard his tricked-out superyacht, the video game designer and entrepreneur has settled on a more permanent locale in Los Angeles. Records reveal the video game designer and entrepreneur—best known as the founder of San Diego-based developer Psyonix, which came out with the hugely successful vehicular soccer title “Rocket League” and was subsequently acquired by Epic Games for an undisclosed amount—recently picked up the keys to an $11.5 million mansion resting on a particularly sought-after street in the westside neighborhood of Brentwood.

Built in 2019 by prolific developer Ramtin Ray Nosrati of Huntington Estate Properties, the newly acquired property includes six bedrooms and nine baths in 9,300 square feet of living space adorned throughout with bespoke light fixtures, smart-home technology, and an array of fireplaces and water elements. Originally listed for $13 million this past spring, and then reduced to $12 million, the place went to Hagewood and his wife Danielle in late October at a substantial discount.

Automated Fleetwood doors in the main living spaces allow for a seamless flow to outdoor environs spotlighted by an infinity-edge swimming pool overlooking panoramic views. 

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Tucked away behind gates and high hedges, amid a secluded cul-de-sac parcel spanning over a third of an acre, the modern three-story structure is fronted by an attached two-car garage flanked by a waterfall. Fire and water features enhance a floating walkway, which leads into a main level highlighted by a living room sporting a striking veined-marble fireplace stretching to the ceiling, as well as Fleetwood doors spilling out to a terrace and lawn ideal for al fresco entertaining with a cozy fireplace and built-in barbecue station.

Other standout attributes include a waterfall-clad dining area and fireside family room, both of which connect to a gourmet kitchen outfitted with Italian cabinetry, an eat-in island and top-tier Miele appliances; and upstairs, a plush master retreat features a custom fireplace, wraparound balcony and spacious walk-in closet, plus a spa-like bath equipped with dual vanities, a soaking tub and glass-encased shower.

Recreation and relaxation is the name of the game on the lower level, which has a four-TV video wall, back-lit onyx bar, gym, movie theater with stadium seating and 1,000-bottle wine cellar. And the glitzy amenities continue outdoors, where the backyard hosts an infinity-edge pool and spa, and the aforementioned roof deck flaunts a bar and fire-pit.

An expansive roof deck has a cozy sitting area warmed by a fire-pit.

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The Charlotte, N.C., native, who is now in his 40s, dropped out of college, and supported himself while learning the game design and development trade. He went on to found Psyonix in 2001, before getting his big break in 2015 with “Rocket League” and ultimately selling the company to Epic Games some four years later.

Hagewood recently purchased the refitted 184-foot Benetti superyacht Galaxy, which is valued at $25 million; and for now, the couple also still own a Mediterranean-style villa in the Point Loma area of San Diego that they paid about $2.7 million for back in spring 2020.

The listing was held by Jon Gednalske, Jamie Waryck and Mauricio Umansky of The Agency; Ernie Carswell and Spencer Daley of Douglas Elliman repped Hagewood.

Click here for more photos of Dave Hagewood’s Brentwood house.

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If you’re a fan of the Shabby Chic aesthetic, then this particular listing is sure to set your heart aflutter. Owned by none other than Rachel Ashwell—the British-born mastermind behind the iconic decorating brand—the charming abode is now on the market in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles for the first time in 16 years, complete a practical amount of space, relaxed atmosphere, comfortable beauty, and naturally, plenty of white paint.

The 64-year-old who originally coined the design term in the late 1980s—and went on to launch an eponymously named home furnishings company—is asking a tad under $7 million for the English country-style villa, which she purchased for $4.15 million back in October 2007.

The home is sited on a large flat lot replete with fragrant beds of lavender, roses and herbs.

Sited near the Santa Monica coastline, and just steps from Brentwood Country Mart, the creamy stucco and pale blue-shuttered structure was built way back in the early 1930s. Since updated and beautifully decked out by Ashwell in her signature style, the dwelling features four bedrooms and three baths in a little more than 12,500 square feet of open-concept living space adorned throughout with hardwood floors, vintage light fixtures, half-painted walls, and a mix of wood-paneled and glossy painted ceilings.

Nestled amid a flat parcel of land spanning over a quarter of an acre, the two-story home is fronted by a pathway that leads through a trellised gate before emptying out at a covered porch, with a gated driveway tucked off to the side. Once inside, an entrance hall flows to a formal living room warmed by a brick fireplace boasting a wood-beam mantle, and a combined family room and dining area connects to a galley-style kitchen outfitted with a diagonal tile backsplash, open shelving, a farmhouse sink and newer stainless appliances.

The classically updated kitchen sports a farmhouse sink and top-tier Viking range.

Elsewhere on the main level is an office space and en-suite bedroom with its own entrance; and three additional bedrooms upstairs include two that share a bath, as well as a serene primary suite equipped with dual balconies, a wallpapered dressing area, and spa-like bath spotlighted by a pedestal sink, built-in soaking tub and walk-in shower.

In addition to picturesque gardens and towering trees, the private grounds also host a grassy lawn surrounding a heated saline pool and spa, plus numerous spots ideal for al fresco lounging and entertaining. There’s also a separate structure dubbed “The Barn,” which is actually a converted two-car garage with a full bath that could easily be used as an artist studio, office or a guesthouse.

The listing is held by Juliette Hohnen of Douglas Elliman.

Click here for more photos of Rachel Ashwell’s Brentwood house. More