If at first you don’t succeed, slash, slash the value. That’s Joel Silver’s technique in Brentwood, the place he simply relisted his scorching pink mega-mansion for $49 million — a 35% low cost in contrast along with his earlier ask of $75 million.
Silver, the movie producer behind blockbuster franchises similar to “Die Onerous” and “The Matrix,” will nonetheless make a hefty revenue if he will get his worth. He purchased the property for $3.3 million in 1988 and razed the prevailing construction, commissioning Mexican architect Ricardo Legorreta to construct a 25,000-square-foot mansion instead.
If it sells for $49 million, will probably be the third-priciest sale in Brentwood historical past behind Scooter Braun, who spent $65 million on a contemporary farmhouse final 12 months, and therapeutic massage chair mogul Matt Wollman, who unloaded his fortress-like property for $56.55 million a couple of months later.
One of many brightest and boldest houses within the space, the pink compound is an ideal illustration of Legorreta, whose whimsical type introduced shade to each Mexico and the U.S., together with the 1994 redesign of Pershing Sq..
He completed Silver’s residence in 2001, sourcing a lot of the supplies from Mexico and bringing collectively modernist areas marked by geometric angles, towering skylights and pyramid-like ceilings. Highlights embrace a 30-foot-high household room with hydraulic doorways and an atrium full with a mirrored image pool.
Elsewhere are eight bedrooms, 9 bogs, a proper eating room, chef’s kitchen and facilities similar to an workplace, library, gymnasium, sauna and movie show.
A number of decks and a heated eating space overlook the yard, the place flat lawns encompass a swimming pool and spa. The grounds cowl 4.5 acres.
Branden and Rayni Williams of the Beverly Hills Estates maintain the itemizing.
Silver, 70, has been producing box-office hits for the reason that Nineteen Seventies together with the “Predator,” “Matrix,” “Die Onerous” and “Deadly Weapon” franchises. His more moderen credit embrace “Sherlock Holmes,” “Challenge X” and “The Good Guys.”
