Shonda Rhimes — the TV powerhouse in the back of “Gray’s Anatomy” and “Scandal” — simply set a file in Hancock Park, promoting her 99-year-old mansion for $21 million. It’s the priciest sale ever recorded within the tony Wilshire community.
Satirically, the file as soon as belonged to Ted Sarandos, the Netflix CEO who introduced Rhimes to the streaming provider in 2017 with an enormous building deal. He set the all time prime in 2015 when he paid $15.95 million for the lavish mansion of Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith.
Rhimes, who’s been purchasing and promoting properties in Hancock Park for years, purchased the valuables from “Everyone Loves Raymond” actress Patricia Heaton for $8.8 million in 2014, information display. She first indexed it for $25 million closing summer time sooner than trimming the cost to $23 million in October.
It’s simple to look why the house set a file. The compound spans over an acre and combines two parcels on a nook lot. On the middle sits a three-story mansion constructed 99 years in the past via Elmer Gray, the prolific architect in the back of the Beverly Hills Lodge and Huntington Artwork Gallery.
Rhimes made where her personal throughout her seven-year keep. Operating with inner dressmaker Michael Smith, who renovated the Oval Administrative center throughout Obama’s presidency, the pair removed the Santa Barbara mission-style facade and restored it again to the Italianate villa-style external in the beginning constructed via Gray.
For extra mild, they changed the wooden entrance door with glass and tore the ceiling out of the first-floor loggia to create a two-story gallery. Different highlights within the just about 12,000-square-foot house come with marble flooring, Venetian plaster, crown molding and glass-blown skylights.
Seven bedrooms and 10 toilets are unfold throughout 3 tales, and there’s additionally a proper eating room, two kitchens, a library, playroom and picture theater with a snack bar. The guesthouse provides a hair salon.
Out of doors, the leafy grounds characteristic two yards in addition to a swimming pool, cabana, paddle tennis court docket and hidden hedged lawn.
Rhimes is the founding father of Shondaland, a TV manufacturing corporate with hits during the last 20 years together with “Non-public Observe,” “ Get Away With Homicide,” “Station 19” and “Bridgerton.” The 51-year-old inked a multi-year building take care of Netflix in 2017, and her fresh expanded take care of the corporate will see her paintings on new income streams akin to reside occasions.
On the true property facet, she additionally owns a Ny penthouse and bought any other house in Hancock Park for $7.166 million in 2019.
Ed Solorzano of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Houses held the checklist. Josh and Matt Altman of Douglas Elliman represented the patron.
