“Complete Area” writer Jeff Franklin is capturing for the celebs in Beverly Crest, asking $85 million for his 21,000-square-foot mega-mansion.
Franklin is a standard in actual property headlines; he bought a spec space for $20.2 million in 2016 and flipped the enduring San Francisco Victorian used to painting the Tanner circle of relatives’s place of abode in “Complete Area” for $5.35 million in 2020.
This, then again, is his maximum formidable list so far — no longer most effective because of the sky-high price ticket, but additionally as a result of the valuables’s notorious historical past. The mansion sits at the identical land the place Sharon Tate and 4 others had been murdered through the Manson circle of relatives in the summertime of 1969.
Again then, the valuables’s cope with used to be 10050 Cielo Dr., however in 1994, actual property investor Alvin Weintraub demolished the home and adjusted the cope with to 10066 Cielo Dr. in an try to separate the property from its darkish previous.
Franklin, a manufacturer and screenwriter who additionally created “Fuller Area” prior to reportedly being fired from the display for growing a poisonous paintings setting, purchased the mansion for $6.375 million in 2000. Over time, he became it into an amenity-loaded showplace entire with a 75-yard pool, 35-foot water slide and subterranean storage with room for 16 automobiles.
Billed as an Andalusian-style property, the house used to be constructed through mega-mansion grasp Richard Landry and sits at the back of double gates. A customized painted dome units a stately tone above the access, and inside of, colossal dwelling areas function coffered ceilings, arched doors and sweeping perspectives of town underneath.
Unfold throughout 3 tales are 9 bedrooms, 18 bogs, a film theater, spa, fitness center, hair salon, billiards room and aquarium. Decks and balconies cling off the bottom of the house, and if the ones perspectives aren’t sufficient, there’s a tower viewer for extra magnified lookouts.
Out of doors, the three.6-acre compound provides a pool fed through 3 waterfalls, two spas, a swim-up bar, personal grotto, koi pond and lazy river surrounded through lounges, cabanas and fireplace pits. A guesthouse completes the scene.
If Franklin will get his worth, it’ll be a few of the priciest house gross sales ever within the 90210 ZIP Code. The present crown belongs to Jeff Bezos, who paid $165 million for David Geffen’s Georgian Revival-style mansion in 2020.
A local of Inglewood, Franklin created “Complete Area” in 1987, and the sitcom ran for 8 seasons on ABC. His different credit come with “Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper” and “Malcom & Eddie.”
Josh and Matt Altman of Douglas Elliman cling the list.
