I used to live in LA, and drove by these properties quite a few times, even playing "tour guide" for friends.😎 Regarding the "Clampett/Kirkeby" Mansion... I met the daughter-in-law to Carlotta when I worked at a furniture store. As she handed me her credit card, and I saw the last name Kirkeby, and asked, "Are you?" She said yes, and then we discussed details about the mansion, the gilted woodwork, the ballroom, the pool (not the cement pond), the gardens. Really a treat to hear the inside scoop! Sold to Lachlan Murdoch (Rupert's son) for $150M. Regarding The Knoll, it was completely renovated and expanded. The entire property was relandscaped. Sold to Eric Smidt, a manufacturing tycoon for $48M. Playboy Mansion has been undergoing a multi-year restoration/renovation, including the grounds and the grotto pool. Sold to Daron Metropoulus for $100M. Jeff Bezos purchased the Warner Estate for $165M. And "Casa Encantada/Murdock Estate" has been listed for $225M!! Yes, I follow real estate in the "Triangle"!
You can afford upkeep and taxes, with planning. Set up a trust that generates about 2 mil a year, with some set aside for moderate growth. About 300 mil should do it - for construction and full staffing, say half a billion to be safe. See how easy it is? All it takes is a little forethought.
obscene excess--a couple of these grandiose structures, including the Beverly Hillbillies' house (the Kirkeby estate)--fell to the bulldozer long before the turn of the 21st century.
Google Map 750 Bel Air Rd in LA and you can see that the "Beverly Hillbillies" mansion still stands today. You can no longer see the house from the street, as the owner walled off the entrance decades ago because of all the tourists. The owner(s) has/have used a back entrance for years.
First of all (for the video voiceover), Arnold Kirkeby did not sell the property to Jerry Perenchio. Mr. Kirkeby died in an American Airlines plane crash in Jamaica, Queens , in 1962, taking off from New York and heading for LAX. After his wife, Carlotta Kirkeby, passed away in the '80s, their children decided to sell. But, I am off-track here (it's ADD). From what I can tell, the property was gutted of everything except for the stone façade of the house. Perenchio had the property protected by security guards during the entire renovation; However, a few pics were taken and posted online, a copy of which I have. There was nothing but red clay where beautiful landscaping used to be. Perenchio did, in fact, keep the integrity of the front landscaping of the house, and no, it's not visible from the street.
Nope, this mansion looks good. And liveable - notice how there is a lot of up and down, rather than side to side? And estate looks good, nice combo of manicuring and wilderness. And a redwood grove! That is just badass.
Lol even if I was a billionaire I dont think I'd want to own a house this big. The taxes cost as much as a normal house per year. Not to mention full time landscapers, maids, and maintained staff needed. 1% ,for sure
I disagree. It's their money. They earned it and who are we to say what they do with THEIR money. I would just like to know what kind of careers it takes to own and maintain such grand estates.
I've never understood rich people, buying house far too big for their needs just to show off how much money they have made. I watched a "realtor to the stars" showing homes in this area recently and they're going for the grossly obnoxious prices of 50 million and upwards. "To know what God thinks of money, one only has to look at whom He has given it to". What truly irks me is that the majority of the people who spend this much money for these too large, overpriced structures of flaunting wealth are Democrats...who scoff at capitalism and the hard working man and woman. These people are the pillars of hypocrisy. And to top it all off, they rarely even live in them. A lot of these houses are being bought up by rich middle easterners who buy them, change their structural appearances but never stay there...another slap in the face to this country. Why don't these rich hypocrites and America haters buy smaller houses more fit to their needs and donate all the rest of the money to the causes that they are always screaming about? And I don't think that, if you don't even live in this country, you shouldn't be buying up properties here.
There are more rich Republicans than there are rich Democrats. I'm a Democrat and I'm not rich. I'm retired and living off a pension. So get off your high horse and learn something.
The Lord? He seems to have given money to lots of different people. If you are just buying a mansion to show off, ok, I can see that is obnoxious. But many buy to show what can be done with a property, with vision. Look what JP did with Chartwell, Bel Air, before he died in 2017. And besides party houses and social functions, there is extended family - and other uses. You know about the Long Island mansion whose owner (a veteran)regularly cycles recovering vets through it? Doctors report much better results with head cases there than in a VA hospital, no surprise. Anyway, these houses are not built at anyone’s expense, the way the old Marxists used to claim in their fallacious theories of how wealth is created.
About billionaires: Some people dislike the rich as a group, and invent reasons why they should be stripped of their riches, like the old Marxists and their exploitation theories, saying that all wealth is stealing. I have no use for these people. They denounce Avarice, but they themselves are possessed by Envy. There is a danger in riches, however, in that they can distract you from what really matters, love, work, friends, family; things that should be at the top of your list. The ancients knew that, thus the parable of the eye of the needle. It recognizes that to be rich puts you in peculiar danger of spiritual and moral wreck. Other conditions have their own problems of course, those with power can abuse it, etc. Chesterton (who was death on Socialism) once wrote a little poem on the subject. You do not need to share his religious perspective to appreciate it; take it as a parable: THE ARISTOCRAT The Devil is a gentleman, and asks you down to stay At his little place at What'sitsname (it isn't far away). They say the sport is splendid; there is always something new, And fairy scenes, and fearful feats that none but he can do; He can shoot the feathered cherubs if they fly on the estate, Or fish for Father Neptune with the mermaids for a bait; He scaled amid the staggering stars that precipice, the sky, And blew his trumpet above heaven, and got by mastery The starry crown of God Himself, and shoved it on the shelf; But the Devil is a gentleman, and doesn't brag himself. O blind your eyes and break your heart and hack your hand away, And lose your love and shave your head; but do *not* go to stay At the little place in What'sitsname where folks are rich and clever; The golden and the goodly house, where things grow worse for ever; There are things you need not know of, though you live and die in vain, There are souls more sick of pleasure than you are sick of pain; There is a game of April Fool that's played behind its door, Where the fool remains for ever and the April comes no more, Where the splendour of the daylight grows drearier than the dark, And life droops like a vulture that once was such a lark: And that is the Blue Devil that once was the Blue Bird; For the Devil is a gentleman, and doesn't keep his word.
if I had gate, zuckerberg money. I would buy the hillbilly house to host charity events. have a possum day. just use it to have all sorts of events. I am pro-vajazzle as many people know.
