{"id":42058,"date":"2019-12-24T18:22:05","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T18:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=42058"},"modified":"2019-12-24T18:22:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T18:22:05","slug":"beverly-hillbillies-mansion-sells-for-150-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=42058","title":{"rendered":"‘Beverly Hillbillies’ mansion sells for $150 million"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Written by Emma Reynolds, CNN<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\nA mansion with a starring role in the classic US sitcom ”
\nThe Beverly Hillbillies<\/a>” has become
\nCalifornia’s<\/a> most
\nexpensive property<\/a> after it reportedly sold for around $150 million.\n<\/div>\n
\nFamous for its appearance in the opening credits of the all-American show, the Chartwell estate is located in the exclusive
\nLos Angeles<\/a> neighborhood of Bel Air.\n<\/div>\n
\nThe high-end property, which centers on a French neoclassical-style chateau set in 10 acres of land, was bought by
\nRupert Murdoch’s son Lachlan<\/a>, the Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal reported.\n<\/div>\n

Chartwell features in “The Beverly Hillbillies,” which ran from 1962 to 1971, as the house inhabited by the hilariously unsophisticated Clampett family, who move to LA after striking it rich.<\/p>\n

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The 18-bedroom home appeared in the credits for the hit US sitcom, The Beverly Hillbillies. Credit: <\/span>travis7310\/YouTube<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\nThe sale has beaten the Los Angeles County record of $110 million,
\nset in April 2018<\/a> when Peter Morton, the co-founder of the Hard Rock cafe, sold his beachfront home in Malibu.\n<\/div>\n
\nThe luxury Bel Air estate is now the second most expensive home ever sold in the US, surpassed only by a $238 million condominium in New York City bought by billionaire hedge-fund manager
\nKen Griffin<\/a> in January.\n<\/div>\n

Since 2016, six homes in LA have sold for $100 million or more, the LA Times reports. Chartwell previously belonged to another media mogul, Andrew Jerrold Perenchio, who died in 2017.<\/p>\n

\nThe 25,000-square-foot mansion was designed by Sumner Spaulding in 1930 with a limestone exterior and renovated in the 1980s by French interior designer Henri Samuel, according to the listing on
\nGitlin Luxury Properties<\/a>.\n<\/div>\n

It features 18 bedrooms, 24 bathrooms, a ballroom and a five-bedroom guesthouse designed by well-known architect Wallace Neff. The mansion has panoramic views over the city and the Pacific Ocean, a 75-foot pool with spacious pool house, a tennis court, car gallery for 40 vehicles, 12,000-bottle wine cellar and manicured gardens with a spectacular fountain.<\/p>\n

\nThe Beaux Arts mansion was commissioned by engineer Lynn Atkinson, who filled it with gold and marble, Baccarat chandeliers, a vaulted morning room, walnut paneling and an extravagant copper roof, according to a
\nLos Angeles Magazine article<\/a> from 2000. Architect Richardson Robertson told the magazine the house “just symbolized old Bel-Air.”\n<\/div>\n

Atkinson’s wife, Berenice, reportedly hated it on sight, asking: “Who would ever live in a house like this? It’s so grandiose.”<\/p>\n

It stood empty until Arnold Kirkeby, a hotelier, bought it for $200,000 in 1945. Another media mogul, Andrew Jerrold Perenchio, bought it for \u00a313.5 million in 1987 and enlisted Samuel, who spent five years gutting and restoring the palatial home, adding a parquet de Versaille floor in the garden room. <\/p>\n

A secret tunnel runs from the basement of the home to the swimming pool.<\/p>\n

\nThe 18th century-style estate was first listed in 2017 for an eye-watering
\n$350 million<\/a>, according to Forbes, and was the
\nmost expensive home<\/a> on sale in the US.\n<\/div>\n

There are five dwellings on the property, including an acre-sized lot Perenchio bought from the estate of Ronald and Nancy Reagan for $15 million in 2016. <\/p>\n

\nThe estate carries one of the
\nhighest annual tax bills<\/a> in the Los Angeles area at $1.3 million, according to an LA Times report from earlier this month.\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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