Comedian Kathy Griffin Selling California Home with 1,000-Bottle Wine Cellar. Price: $15.9 Million

 

Kathy’s 13,336-SF, three-story home opens into a skylit foyer.

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 Source: www.elliman.com

 

Kathy Griffin

 

BEL AIR, CA -- My Life on the D-List comedian Kathy Griffin is selling her guard-gated Bel Air Crest mansion she bought in 2016. 

Randy Bick and Kathy

 

 It was also where she married husband Randy Bick on New Year’s 2020 that was officiated by friend-and-legendary-comedian Lily Tomlin. 

 

Almost five years after moving in she has recently put it on the market priced at $15.9 million, according to TopTenRealEstateDeals.com.

Lily Tomlin

 Bel Air Crest is one of several gated communities in Bel Air favored by celebrities due to its heavy security. 

 

Said to be possibly the most prestigious of the few, it has beautifully landscaped common areas, is a great place for walks and has a well-outfitted community center. 

 

Homeowner recreation includes a pool, tennis courts and putting green where residents can feel comfortable among their peers.

 

Built in 2003, Kathy’s 13,336-square-foot, three-story home opens into a skylit foyer with wrought-iron banisters on the curving stairwell and overlook. 

 

Straight ahead down a wide long hall is a wide view and access to the back garden.  Contemporary Mediterranean in style, the interior has the light, bright California vibe. 

 

The main floor has an open floor plan with formal rooms and a chef’s kitchen with butler’s pantry and an adjoining family room.  French doors open from the family room to the pool terrace. 

The home has a total of nine bedrooms and 12 baths.  All bedrooms are ensuite with the master having its own terrace with steps leading to the ground level and has his-and-her baths, large dressing room closets and lovely outdoor views.

 

The lower level, apart from its car gallery and staff quarters, is all about fun.  It has a 1,000-bottle wine cellar - which she told People she would fill when she had 1,000 guests - a home theater and a billiards room. 

 

Landscaping is mature, lushly planted and is a mix of lawn, trees and shrubbery. 

 With 30 years of performing under her belt and amassing a fortune of approximately $40 million, the redheaded, razor-tongued comedian has won two PrimeTime Emmy awards and a Grammy for her TV show My Life on the D-List.

 

  Smart with her money and praised by Forbes and other publications for paying cash for her real estate, Kathy has performed numerous concerts including The Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, Sydney Opera House and 23 televised comedy specials - more than any other comedian in history.

 

Griffin is selling what she once called her “dream home” in the celebrity laden gated community of Bel Air Crest.  Priced at $15.9 million, the listing agents are Bravo’s Million Dollar Listing stars Josh and Matt Altman of Compass, Beverly Hills.

 

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John Barrymore's Beverly Hills' Mansion Price Down to $15.9 Million from $42.5 Million in 2015 and $17 Million in 2017

John Barrymore mansion, seven bedrooms, 11 baths, Beverly Hills, CA

 

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Beverly Hills, CA -- The most popular new genre in television since the advent of reality programming, and ratings up as much as 30% since the coronavirus lockdown, homes-for-sale shows such as Bravo’s Million Dollar Listing and Netflix’s Selling Sunset and Million Dollar Beach House have become huge hits as they follow fashionable agents selling multi-million-dollar homes in glamorous locales such as Beverly Hills, Malibu and the Hamptons.

John Barrymore

 

 While the agents are the stars of the shows, the luxury homes share equal billing with prices that run into the stratosphere.

 

The finale of season 12 of Million Dollar Listing LA, that just aired on Bravo TV, is an historic mansion that was once the home of acting-legend John Barrymore - priced at $15.9 million.

Barrymore's former opium den located on the floor above his bedroom

 Listed by Douglas Elliman's Josh Altman and Tracy Tutor, the Spanish-style home with its red-tiled roof and gardens with winding paths through cultivated jungle is still dreamy and romantic almost 100 years after it was built in 1926.

Mansion front entrance

With almost 7,000 square feet of living area, seven bedrooms and eleven baths distributed between the main house, two guest houses and two apartments, the home's charm is still quite evident in the dramatic fireplaces and redwood log floor in the cigar lounge.

 

The master suite, one of three bedrooms in the main house, has a wraparound veranda with views of the city and the ocean. 

 

Panelled walls, a wine cellar, decks, terraces, original tile, wrought iron and a fabulous painted ceiling in the main living room are a few of the many elements that give the home its character.

 A new owner will never be far away from the home’s music of falling water from fountains or the pool waterfall.

Tracy Tutor

One of Beverly Hills’ earliest celebrity homes, the most unusual feature is Barrymore's opium den. Barrymore was an aficionado of the drug, which became popular at the end of the 1800s and was legal until the early 1900s.

 

The opium den was located above his bedroom with two accesses. One was by ladder from the bedroom and the other from the wraparound veranda.

 There, Barrymore and his guests would lie on carpet and piles of plush pillows while inhaling opium vapor from pipes.

 

The smoking of opium is where the saying “pipe dream” originated.

 

Originally listed at $42.5 million in 2015 when the estate included seven acres and extra buildings, and later downsized to one acre, the home is currently listed at $15.9 million.  

 

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 Genelle C. Brown

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