Celebrity Homes

What happens if you find a house that you love, it is perfect? It’s a regency style building, enough space for your family, exquisite dark wooding floors stretching the entire length. French doors opening up onto a beautiful wrap around garden, a sun drenched pool and wonderful big elevated ceilings with shiny white wooden beams.

You ask – “What’s the catch?”
Me – “Four people were brutally murdered in the lounge”

There is a house just like it for sale for on Cielo Drive, Beverly Hills, but some people might think twice before them by it and it’s nothing to do with the price which is a healthy $1,950,000. You see the only downside to this beautiful celebrity pad, is that it’s on the very same street that the Polanski/Tate house was. Oddly the owner is using the grizzly event as a selling point saying;

“On the very same street where the infamous Manson murders occurred, the blood soaked Polanski/Tate house”

Apparently the owner of the ill fated Polanski/Tate house had had some difficulty giving it away so had had the property demolishing and built a gigantic faux-Flemish/quasi Mediterranean style mansion in its place.

I have to admit there is something kind of creepy about a house that has the exact same layout as a place where a mass murder was committed. The original house was designed by Robert Byrd in 1944 for French actress Michèle Morgan but had after that it had been copied by others so that most of the houses on Cielo Drive were alike.

The house had had its fair share of famous owners from Cary Grant and Henry Fonda to Terry Melcher (Doris day’s son) and his girl friend Candice Bergen. It had been Beach Boy Dennis Wilson who had introduced the formidable Charles Manson to the ill fated house when he had promised that Terry Melcher might be able to help his music career.

This is the pool area where Manson first saw Sharon Tate; he had arrived to confront Terry Melcher and found that the Polanski’s had moved in.

This is the approach the house where the Tex Watson, Pat Krenwinkle, Susan Atkins and Linda Kasabian had passed in the car the night of the murders.

Friend of Sharon Tate Voyteck Frykowski was asleep on the couch.

This is a picture of the old house and the new resort that stands in its place

This is the door where the killers had written Pig in Sharon Tate’s Blood

This is the bed room where Sharon Tate and Jay Sebring had been chatting

This is where they had lined all of the victims up in front of the fireplace before killing them

The final valiant fight from Sebring unfortunately ended here along with Sharon Tate, Abigail Folger and Frykowski.

It does seam a shame that a house built some 25 years before, could become a place of such horror in just a few minutes. I’m not sure if people who live on Cielo Drive now really think about the tragedy anymore but it’s obviously still good for moving real-estate.

We have found selections of what we feel are quite possibly the most pretentious Hollywood homes for your visual delectation.

1 – John Travolta’s Airport Home

Here is the lovely John Travolta and his wife Kelly Preston, and below are the images of their aviation themed house.

At first glance you could mistake this house for an airport given that there are planes parked halfway into the living room. But as you can see it has a living room and dining room, I wonder if at anytime during the houses decoration he thought “maybe that’s enough planes now?”

2 – Oprah’s Winfrey’s Death Star

This is one of Oprah’s many houses, this reminds me of the scene in star wars when Obi-Wan says “That’s no moon. It’s Oprah Winfrey’s house”. This place is colossal, as you can see it would take most of the day to simply walk across the lawn.

3 – Micheal Jackson’s fantasy island

Of course we couldn’t have a list of crazy celebrity houses without including the late Michael Jackson. Michael’s house boasted a full size fair ground and its own railway.

4 – Simon Cowell’s new pad – has it got the X Factor?

Mr Cowell, well Simon has been busy recently buying his new pad and so we thought that we would give you a glimpse of it.

5 – Will Smiths beach hut love nest

Will Smith is probably the next U.S senator but until then, he’ll make movies and chill out in his beach party style mansion thingy. It is an unusual piece of architecture, kind of a cross between contemporary Spanish and a sand castle.

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