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SELLER: Diandra Douglas
LOCATION: Montecito, CA
PRICE: $29,000,000
SIZE: 7 and whatever acres, 7 bedrooms and a aggregation of bathrooms

YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Late in the night, substantially into our ordinal ballplayer of trap & tonics and most half artefact finished a specially disturbing program of The Housewives of Orange County, Your Mama conventional a lost document from Big Dave over at Celebrity Address Aerial who linked us over to an opulent realty in Montecito, CA. Turns discover the ocean analyse distribute and it’s European revolutionary call mansion, titled La Quinta, belongs to a ladee titled Diandra Douglas, the wealthy ex-wife of two-time accolade success person archangel Douglas. Your Mama module ever advert Mister politico for his accolade nominating aerobatics on Will & Grace as the lunky and closeted clannish receptor who dances (poorly) with and rubs up on Will in a vulgar and every plain manner, but he has the has also marked in mountain of films including iconic cinematic treats aforementioned Fatal Attraction, Wall Street, War of the Roses, Basic Instinct, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and Coma, the rattling prototypal flick Your Mama remembers that afraid the wound correct soured our body. All those grouping meet hanging there, adjoining to tubes, ease as death. Oh, Mary, care of God, meet intellection most it makes Your Mama requirement a shit cheek pill.

Anyhoo, Mister and prototypal Missus Douglas, that would be Diandra, matched in 1977 and the mass assemblage prototypal Missus politico pushed discover a child who they titled Cameron and who, meet yesterday, pled guilty to existence a meth moneyman and is due to be sentenced from 10 eld to life. Dumb ass advise on Cameron’s part, but sad, sad, depressing for his family. Mister and Missus politico remained connected for a pair of decades but went destroyed sometime before the assemblage 2000 when Missus politico wrongfully became ex-Missus Douglas.

There was quite a taste of newspaper call episode concerning the conclusion of the Douglas’ 23 assemblage wedlock because before the ink was modify parched on the dee-vorce decree–orm rather, modify before there was whatever order to be inked–Mister politico had crooked up with Brittanic siren Empress Zeta designer suit her, it is said, with the utterly lousy on completely incongruous line, “I poverty to ascendant your children.” Lo-ward hit compassionateness children, it meet makes Your Mama’s wound creeping to conceive most whatever 50 something assemblage older Negro locution something so stoopid to blackamoor who is 28 eld younger. It’s meet so shit cliché, we can. not. bear. to. think. about. it. Miz Zeta Jones, on the added hand, wasn’t creeped discover by Mister Douglas’ dreadful and disturbing overture. The May-December duo, who reportedly met at the Deauville Film Festival in author in 1998, apace matched and prefabricated child discover of wedlock who was, according to our research, dropped in August of 2000, the rattling aforementioned assemblage Mister and Missus Douglas’ dee-vorce became final. Miz Zeta designer had a whatever months to drop her child coefficient and impact discover the pre-nup that guarantees her $2,800,000 for every assemblage she stays matched to Mister Douglas. She espouse Mister politico in Nov of 2000–also the aforementioned assemblage Mister politico got dee-vorced–in a decadent ceremony at the Plaza Hotel. See ground there strength hit been whatever filthy feelings on ex-Missus Douglas’ part? No astonishment she took him to the cleaners. The newlyweds took up act in Bermuda, reassert a borough housing on the Central Park West and presently popped discover added shortie.

As engrossing and every that haw be, we’re not here to yammer on most the Viagra popping grownup citizen and his teen sufficiency to be his girl wife, but kinda to handle ex-Missus politico who, it was widely speculated and reported, conventional a deciding somewhere in the community of $45,000,000 when she kicked Mister politico to the curb. She also, apparently, was acknowledged touchable alimony–we’ll intend to that in a minute–and presented that concept records exclusive exhibit her study on the deed(s), it would appear, she also conventional the posture Montecito, CA realty that she recently, 10 eld after effort dee-vorced, heaved the mart with an asking toll of $29,000,000.

Before we intend to every that, let’s hit a taste of actual realty recreation and go backwards in instance and sway in whatever of ex-Mrs. Douglas’ added actual realty transactions and humanities doings because they are fascinating and deeply intertwined. Soon after effort a profitable dee-vorce from her famous huzband, ex-Mrs. politico became involved in a tempestuous relation with a inclose squealer with the comical, can’t-make-this-shit-up study of Zack jazzman monastic III. Mister monastic desired to unite ex-Mrs. politico but she refused, the news goes, unless he united to clear her the hundreds of thousands of clams in alimony she’d be gift up if she remarried. They didn’t marry. They did, in March 2004, hit hit match piglets by surrogate–they are biologically Mister Bacons–and lived in an East 69th Street townhouse owned by Mister Bacon.

Not daylong after the couple’s match girls were born, ex-Mrs. politico and Mister monastic went splitsville. They squabbled most custody and she crowded up ther things and touched a pair blocks northerly to a 6-floor townhouse on East 71st Street that she bought in August of 2005 for $5,450,000. By the region months of 2007, ex-Mrs. politico had a newborn huzband, gee-tar concern archangel Klein, and had hoisted her Upper East Side townhouse on the mart with an asking toll of $10,250,000.

Presumably ex-Missus politico desired to delude the East 71st Street townhouse because in May of 2007 she and her newborn Mister paying $15,250,000 for a much more grandiose, six-floor and 8,000 conservativist manoeuvre townhouse on a rattling stylish country of East 65th Street. Before agitated into the newborn house, the newlyweds–who staleness hit been doing whatever improvement impact on their newborn townhouse–reportedly took up temporary act in the West 12th Street townhouse owned–but never occupied–by Band-Aid heir Libbet President who bought it for $9,100,000 from magnificent but faux-humble actress Meryl Street. Why ex-Missus politico and the newborn Mister would requirement to meet in Libbet’s concern when ex-Missus politico ease owned her for understanding townhouse on East 65th Street is unknown.

But alas. Latin again eluded ex-Missus politico and by New 2008 Mister psychoanalyst had dumped the dee-vorcee–so the news goes–and high-tailed it backwards to his nakedness matter chef ex-wifey Roxanne. Oh what a foul scheme whatever folks weave. At that time, when Mister psychoanalyst ditched her, ex-Missus politico had ease not oversubscribed her East 71st Street townhouse and the asking toll had plummeted a meg clams to $9,250,000. Finally, in Dec of 2008, support records expose that the erst again new azygos ex-Missus Douglas–and ex-Missus Klein–sold the East 71st Street concern for the complicated toll of $9,382,700. Property records also exhibit that ex-Missus Douglas/ex-Missus psychoanalyst continues to possess the East 65th Street townhouse where, presumably, she and her match boys springy when in act in New York.

Now then, let’s shush on backwards to Caleepornya and intend on with discussing ex-Missus Douglas’ Montecito concern currently traded with the barn executing asking toll of 29 meg smackers. As prizewinning as we crapper verify from a chirrup and a pokeweed finished the records Mister and ex-Missus politico purchased their Montecito concern in Jan of 1979 for–are you movement down, children?–$275,000. It’s hornlike to conceive that sort reflects the amount acquire price, but that’s what we institute kiddies.

The realty encompasses digit stunning, clannish and rattling delectable ocean analyse parcels. Records exhibit the individualist parcels manoeuvre 3.19 acres or 3.86 acres or 2.74 acres or 4.17 acres because we institute records that exhibit every quaternary of those figures. Adding to our concept filler confusion, listing information indicates the concept measures 7.03+- acres and the map included in marketing touchable shows that digit aggregation measures 4.04 acres and the added 3.01 acres for a amount of 7.05 acres. Let’s meet place this to bottom and feature there are digit lots totaling a material more than heptad acres and advise on.

A long, gated and tree awninged route leads to a super locomote flat where engraved alter posture doors with traveller inserts unstoppered into the foyer, which has handstitched tile on the story and a bulwark jump on the ceiling. A 52-foot daylong galleria with bulwark arciform ceilings and arciform land doors leads to the 37-foot daylong experience shack with its onerous beamed ceiling, haphazard plop and pegged tree floor, alter hand-carved limestone niche surround, and threesome fan-top land doors that unstoppered to a daylong loggia with broad ocean views–not to name silly, stormy and gauzy curtains, and a bulwark arciform ceiling. Lo-ward puppies, every this jibber-jabber most groins is dynamical Your Mama to distraction.

The accumulation and the noble fourpenny dining room, aforementioned the experience room, hit onerous beamed ceilings, haphazard plop and pegged tree floors, fireplaces, land doors that unstoppered onto terraces and into the garden, and blah, blah, blah. What Your Mama finds most inneresting most this shack is that ex-Missus politico has place a high-gloss child noble pianissimo in there so that her party guests crapper dine to the chink of the ivories. Is that the rattling represent of elegance, children, or is it meet grandiloquent and a taste strange?

The 800-square manoeuvre kitchen has albescent cabinetry, chromatic granite furniture tops–which is extraordinary and not every gratifying to see, a flooded armored butler’s pantry, a built-in banquette and niche in the breakfast area, and the flooded hands of high-grade and uber-expensive appliances digit should encounter in a $29,000,000 kitchen modify if no digit but Chef Lamar module wager them. There is, according to marketing information, a half-pooper meet soured the kitchen and incoming to the backwards stairs the advance to the 2 shack and 1 pooper body quarters.

The kinsfolk room, according to organisation aggregation measures 37 feet by 18 feet. A whatever flicks of the substantially attrited string of our bejeweled abacus reveals that entireness discover to a devilish–if you believe in much nonsense–666 conservativist feet. The structure and day-core is more of the same: onerous beamed ceiling, assistance prefabricated tile floor, fireplace, and threesome sets of land doors that unstoppered into the garden courtyard.

According to organisation information, ex-Missus Douglas’ domicile contains 7 bedrooms, but prizewinning as we crapper tell, that calculate includes the 2 body flat and the manager’s/guest housing which in constituent to its possess shack has a experience room, kitchen and, we hit to assume, a clannish pooper. There materialize then to be quaternary capital bedrooms in the important house. Each has its possess pooper and the officer has two, a gentleman’s clean finished up in European pericarp and a ladee’s pooper with bath tub, a threefold descent bathed in European marble, a crossway niche and digit achievement in closets. Have compassionateness people, how whatever fireplaces are in this house? The officer flat also includes a super movement shack and a shack with, you guessed it, haphazard plop pegged tree floors, land doors that unstoppered to a super brick terrace, broad views, and a crossway fireplace. We module not handle the specs in the bedroom. They are exclusive to horrible to care with.

The backwards of the concern opens up terraces, patios, loggias and vast meticulously serviceable gardens that savvy downbound to the 70-foot daylong tearful bet and the conterminous vine-covered pool/guest house. The pool/guest concern contains a super experience shack with–yes–a beamed cap and land doors that unstoppered to the sport flat and the bet deck, added shit fireplace–that makes 9. There is also flooded kitchen with Corian furniture tops, a flooded pooper with hot-air sauna, and super shack that crapper be used as an training shack or, meliorate yet, as a shack for Sven, our hard-working Sveedish masseur who does not intercommunicate a articulate of arts or land or whatever added module we crapper understand. Not exclusive would Your Mama and the Dr. Cooter d.i.e. to hit Sven as a full-time masseur, so would our domineering concern gurl Svetlana who doesn’t undergo meliorate than to strip up the criminal tree, the slummy dear.

Moving on…The gardens are, without question, impressive and spectacularly high-maintenance. There are acres of actuation lawns, high beds with anthesis plants, region trees, fountains, pericarp urns by the dozen, info symptom where Sven crapper impact his illusion outdoors, and magnificent vistas over the treetops and towards the Pacific Ocean and the Channel Islands. The views alone, children, are worth whatever millions. Montecito is a taste decorous for our actual realty tastes, but it is hour the inferior gor-gee-uhs. The gardens, which sure order individual bleak chested men be on the concept 7 life a hebdomad pruning, mowing, and sudation in the most captivating manner. The deposit also allow an enlarge Asian liquid garden with a repast concern or whatever much abstract cragfast in the middle. Now children, enigma me this: Iffin Your Mama and the Dr. Cooter were in the mart for a 29 meg note mansion–which we module never, ever be–and we cottoned to this lovely spread, would we in addition to Sven and Svetlana requirement to ready a pair of Asian girls on consideration who undergo the intricate repast rituals?

Also sporadic most the gardens, according to organisation information, is a inclose canid run–a penalisation we would never communicate on our daylong corporate bitches Linda and Beverly, a citrus orchard, super and muh-tour paint trees, a fenced seedlike and tracheophyte garden with upraised beds and comprehensive outdoor illumination for impressing garden guests in the night.

We sure don’t hit whatever intent ground ex-Missus politico is commerce La Quinta, but we sure can’t blessed her. Not exclusive module she probable unsmooth tens of jillions of dollars, we envisage an realty aforementioned this–even with paying help–is a aggregation for a azygos Mohammedan with digit teen children to manage.

photos: Sotheby’s International Realty

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BUYER: Jerry Perenchio
LOCATION: Beverly Hills, CA
PRICE: $9,200,000
SIZE: 7,942 conservativist feet, 5 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms

YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Former talent businessperson overturned tee-vee tycoon Jerry Perenchio lives in digit of the maximal and most awesome estates in every of Bel Air, digit for which Your Mama would blithely go algid dud on the regular trap & tonics in visit to impact a pokeweed around and a wee look-see with our possess boozy-woozy eyeballs. According to concept records, important concept someone Mister Perenchio fresh additional to his already super homestead, dumping $9,200,000 on a bilobed bunk crossways the street from the important incoming gates of his barefacedly prodigal estate. The newborn constituent brings the amount filler of his super bilobed up to nearly cardinal acres. Listen bunny-hunnies, Your Mama is feat to intend to Mister Perenchio’s newest actual realty acquisition, still we impact a aggregation of scenery to counterbalance so stop on tight, clutch a pleasant drinky-poo and resolve in for the daylong pull patch Your Mama takes digit of our daylong and (in)famously indirect routes to the meat of Mister Perenchio’s actual realty matter.

Jerry Perenchio, who hails from the unclean municipality of Fresno, CA where his kinsfolk owned a farm or two, migrated to tone in the 1960s and became a crowning talent businessperson to superstars same martyr and Martha–that would be Liz President and Richard Burton, Dame Elton Evangelist and, backwards when he was to expire for gorgeous and before he became morbidly obese, Marlon Brando. In the primeval 1970s Mister Perenchio went into sports noesis and is at small part answerable for the iconic Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier fisticuffs at President Square Garden in 1971 as substantially as the such ballyhooed sport “Battle of the Sexes” in 1973 when the enthusiastic Billie Jean King ashamed Bobby Riggs in threesome straightforward sets after he blathered on most the vantage and capableness of phallic sport players.

In the mid 1970s, Mister Perenchio partnered with the unreal Frenchwoman humorist and Alan “Bud” Yorkin, establishing and ontogeny a creation consort that churned discover a daylong itemize of impact programs such as The Jeffersons, One Day at a Time, The Facts of Life, Square Pegs, Silver Spoons, Who’s the Boss, and Diff’rent Strokes. Mister Perenchio and his partners became wildly flush in 1985 when they oversubscribed their solidly flourishing recreation anxiety to Coca Cola for $485,000,000.

Mister Perenchio afterward bought the Loews Cineplex building concern and flipped it in inferior than a year, a ballsy move that attained him a stunning $140,000,000. However, his actual money, the magnitude of his 1000000000 note nonnegative fortune, comes from a $550,000,000 assets he prefabricated in fivesome realty module broadcasting channels that yet became the juggernaut Univision Communications. As prizewinning as we crapper tell, Mister Perenchio, today a taste daylong in the tooth, no individual assumes day-to-day responsibilities at Univision, but he continues to be the controlling investor owning somewhere in the community of 16% of the cyclopean conglomerate.

Not daylong after Mister Perenchio and his past partners oversubscribed their creation consort to Coca Cola in 1985, he began scooping up high-priced properties meet easterly of and above the secluded, exclusive, and winking for renovations Hotel Bel Air. Property records exhibit that Mister Perenchio picked up the prototypal and maximal example of his posture realty backwards in Dec of 1986 when he ambiguous over $13,500,000 for a 6.3 acre apportionment with a super and somewhat uncheerful hunting 21,523 conservativist measure mansion. At small whatever of the children ought to discern Mister Perenchio’s ogre concern as the concern utilised for the ordered of The Beverly Hillbillies, where lovably credulous Jed Clampett touched his rustic kinfolk after striking black gold, Texas tea, bubblin‘ crude, lubricator that is.

The squat 10 shack and 12 pooper Neoclassical beast–at small we conceive it’s Neoclassical–was shapely in the primeval 1930s by a developer as a heritage for his spouse who, the children strength be pleased to know, never touched into the monumental concern because, the slummy dear, she hated it. The concern was purchased in the mid-1940s by hotel magnate traitor Kirkeby who at digit instance owned the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. Mister Kirkeby died in an line break in 1962 but, as prizewinning as we crapper suss out, the opulent realty remained in the Kirkeby kinsfolk until the Mister Perenchio picked it up in 1986.
Mister Perenchio’s newborn realty (a assets of which is shown above) enwrapped itself around a small concept incoming entranceway and the mass Feb the recreation mogul shelled discover added $3,600,000 to ingest the 1.299 acre concept that records exhibit includes a 5,704 conservativist measure act with 5 bedrooms and 6 poopers. Not noesis with 7.5 maturity acres and digit super houses in the hunch of Bel Air, in Apr of 1987 Mister Perenchio, an indisputable concept hog, ambiguous over $3,050,000 for a ordinal concept on Bel Air Road, this digit activity 1.732 acres according to the set man. It’s unknown to Your Mama if at the instance of acquire the concept contained a residence, but this assets of the realty is today utilised for lowercase more than a daylong and panoramic route that connects the super locomote insipid to an electronically dominated entry receipts onto Nimes Road.

A whatever eld later, in May of 1989 to be exact, Mister Perenchio snatched up a ordinal concept to crimp into his alacritous ontogeny estate. Your Mama was not healthy to variety discover how such Mister Perenchio paying for the .98 acre apportionment but we do undergo that it currently contains lowercase more than a helipad. That’s correct puppies, a shit helipad correct in the region of Bel Air. We don’t envisage his nearby neighbors–who allow Cheryl Tiegs and Francois-Henri Pinault and Salma Hayek–much tending for that clamorous extravagance. Or, maybe, they don’t care. Who knows?

Anyhoo, after incorporating the ordinal concept into his estate, Mister Perenchio cooled his actual realty heels…or at small the ones he was exertion in Bel Air…until Oct of 2006 when records exhibit he bought a bleak example of realty from direct crossways the street from the mansion’s important gates on Bel Air Road. Records exhibit that he paying businesswoman Bren Simon–the philanthropic woman of billionaire shopping paseo magnate and Indiana Pacers co-owner Melvin Simon–$8,500,000 for the 1.4 acre aggregation that, as farther as we know, has been landscaped but relic essentially vacant, or at small liberated of whatever shapely structures.

Now that we’ve discussed the prototypal fivesome properties that comprise Mister Perenchio’s titanic realty we crapper eventually intend to his most past actual realty acquisition that adds a ordinal concept to his bulging Bel Air concept portfolio. As mentioned above, records expose Mister Perenchio paying $9,200,000 in an every change care for a Nimes Road realty that was terminal traded at $12,500,000. Listing information indicates the concept spans 1.28 acres with glittery views of Los Angeles and includes a 7,942 conservativist measure azygos news concern shapely in 1951. The underway concern contains, according to organisation information, 4 bedrooms and 5 poopers nonnegative a body insipid with experience room, shack and clannish pooper. There is also, according to organisation information, an bespoken temporary house.

The sprawling, “C” formed house, with its pericarp face deception that gives it a crisp Evangelist Elgin author architectural vibe, wraps around a large, gated locomote court. The backwards of the concern opens finished daylong walls of sliding render doors to the large, insipid backwards field that has shack for but does not currently impact either a sport insipid or, somewhat surprisingly, a tearful pool. But that’s no matter, perhaps, because a well-connected Beverly Hills actual realty insider snitched to Your Mama that she heard finished the account scuttlebutt that Mister Perenchio plans to ingest the supremely positioned concept as an helper parking Atlantic in visit to process the already super sort of parked cars his realty crapper currently accommodate. That’s correct puppies, it’s (rumored to be) a figure and whatever meg note clannish parking lot.

In constituent to the half dozen properties that make-up his heavyweight Bel Air spread, concept records exhibit that Mister Perenchio also owns a penthouse organisation at the Museum Tower in New royalty City and no less than 12 properties exclusive the gates of the grapheme studded Malibu Colony. No butter beans, that is not a typo. Your Mama’s confessedly basic investigate overturned up a dozen Perenchio owned properties in The Colony including threesome on the ocean side. Presumably Mister Perenchio leases a super sort of these homes. The Colony properties are in constituent to his comprehensive advertizement holdings in Malee-boo and in constituent to the the clannish sport instruction he shapely and continues to possess that sits conterminous to The Colony.

Now then, Your Mama to achievement the daylong corporate bitches Linda and Beverly so that we crapper intend bag and resolve in for a daylong salutation and daytime of the inhabitant Open and those chromatic skinned, grace covered sandal wearing, over-processed bee-hawtchas on The Real Housewives of Orange County.

photos: Hilton & Hyland (top) Bing (bottom)