Versailles-inspired estate in Holmby Hills sells for $16M

Talk about an only-in-L.A. pedigree.

A Neoclassical chateau built to resemble Marie Antoinette’s estate at Versailles, designed for the family that owned Architectural Digest and known as a attract for The Weeknd and Jennifer Lopez fetched $16.4 million in a sale that closed this week.

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The vendor of the home, situated at 110 N. Mapleton Generate in Holmby Hills, was heiress Patrice Tarsey, daughter of a person of the founding entrepreneurs of the Dunes Resort on the Las Vegas Strip in the 1950s.

The purchaser was a nearby developer who will work with superior-close homes and programs to “restore it to its original grandeur,” stated broker Aaron Kirman, who experienced the listing.

The 11,000 sq.-foot, nine-bed room mansion was developed in 1990 for Colleen Knapp, whose loved ones founded Architectural Digest. The dwelling was developed just after Le Petit Trianon, the summer season estate designed in the 18th century on the grounds of Versailles for Marie Antoinette, and capabilities suitably decadent facilities, which include a double round marble stairway, 18th century Baccarat crystal chandelier and 14-foot glass and wrought iron doors. The home’s library and dwelling place floors are also a copy of the floors at the Corridor of Mirrors, the renowned Versailles gallery. The just one-acre house also functions gardens, waterfalls and a tennis court.

Tarsey is a Versailles aficionado, and she purchased the Mapleton Push property in the early 1990s for an undisclosed sum. Tarsey bought simply because she has relocated to Florida and did not want the maintenance, Kirman mentioned.

In recent a long time the estate, which sits on among the L.A.’s most high-priced streets, has sometimes been employed as a movie locale. The Weeknd made use of it for a tunes online video established in his 2020 strike “Too Late,” and Jennifer Lopez has made use of it for a photograph shoot.

Tarsey experienced earlier stated the residence in 2017 for $22.5 million but later took it off the market place. The home presently requirements “a total inside transform,” Kirman reported the new entrepreneurs prepare to rework it into a “modern interpretation” of a European palace.

Holmby Hills sees plenty of large-profile luxurious true estate motion. In June, Jordanian serious estate mogul Hasan Ismaik chopped $5 million off the $70 million inquiring rate for a Nile Niami-created spec mansion at 271 S. Mapleton Push, and in April the late radio legend Casey Kasem’s estate bought for $34 million. That home is found at 138 N. Mapleton Drive.