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Botany

(70,483 posts)
Sat Mar 5, 2022, 10:41 AM Mar 2022

Bel Air's 'The One' Megamansion Sells for $126 Million .... Please let an earthquake happen

Much of the structure is on piers and off the ground.

105,000 square feet, 21 bedrooms, 45.5 bathrooms $126 million

Despite the lack of a jellyfish room and ice bar, the estate is still loaded with nearly innumerable bespoke features that have already been widely chronicled in Dirt and many other real estate publications. There are five swimming pools, a 30-car garage, a 40-seat movie theater, beauty salon, four-lane bowling alley, glass-encased jogging track, 21 bedrooms, 42 full bathrooms and seven powder rooms. Designed by Irish architect Paul McClean and decorated by Kathryn Rotondi, the blindingly white contemporary structure was also built with a private nightclub, though that space is currently being repurposed into something else after loud opposition from other Bel Air neighbors.

So despite those handful of omissions, maybe you really can have it all — or nearly all. But even without a mortgage, those millions of dollars in annual property taxes and upkeep will always be there, too.

https://www.dirt.com/gallery/moguls/real-estate/the-one-bel-air-mansion-sold-auction-1203461700/theone2/

Some people say that radio talk show host Stephanie Miller is the new owner of the property.


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Botany

(70,483 posts)
7. If you can stomach it click on the link and look @ the pictures at the bottom of the page
Sat Mar 5, 2022, 10:58 AM
Mar 2022

On top of a hill and a lot of the structure is on piers too.

luvs2sing

(2,220 posts)
12. I saw a bunch of pictures of the interior..
Sat Mar 5, 2022, 11:20 AM
Mar 2022

a few weeks ago. Bland. Sterile. Lifeless.

Great views, though.

lapfog_1

(29,199 posts)
3. I doubt Stephanie Miller has that sort of money
Sat Mar 5, 2022, 10:51 AM
Mar 2022

I'm sure she is well paid, but spending $126M for a house?

MineralMan

(146,284 posts)
8. An Earthquake That Would Knock That Down Would Kill
Sat Mar 5, 2022, 11:05 AM
Mar 2022

tens of thousands of people in the Los Angeles area. Maybe you should rethink what you wish for.

Seriously.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
11. Good grief. No surprise they couldn't sell this thing for anything
Sat Mar 5, 2022, 11:15 AM
Mar 2022

like cost. Only 3.5 acres of it's in land and effectively all used. There's a taste for everything and location's nice, but it looks like something a foreign billionaire or cartel might use to launder and/or park money.

As for earthquake, don't know why, but wouldn't bother hoping. CA's earthquake building codes are very good, and if there was some damage, even if the owner used it they might not see it before whoever tends to these things took care of it.

Chainfire

(17,526 posts)
13. I guess that Naimi made the classic error of biting off more than he could chew.
Sat Mar 5, 2022, 11:22 AM
Mar 2022

The place looks like an overgrown dentist office to me.

kacekwl

(7,016 posts)
17. A gross level of
Sat Mar 5, 2022, 11:57 AM
Mar 2022

over indulgence. How much does someone need to feel more important and wealthy than the next person.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,841 posts)
18. Except there wouldn't be a magic earthquake that would knock down just one such place.
Sat Mar 5, 2022, 12:35 PM
Mar 2022

I guess you're fine with thousands of other buildings being destroyed, and hundreds, maybe thousands killed. Small price to pay just because you don't like the place, right?

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