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Jack Flemming10:28, May 10 2021
The Los Angeles County city of Alhambra s most notorious home, a castle-like estate where the late record producer Phil Spector fatally shot Lana Clarkson in 2003, just sold for NZ$4.5 million. Spector, the erratic and disgraced producer behind the Wall of Sound recording technique who died in January, paid NZ$1.5 million for the French Chateau-style mansion in 1998, telling Esquire magazine at the time that he had bought a beautiful and enchanting castle in a hick town where there is no place to go that you shouldn t go”. One neighbour likened him to a feudal lord among serfs. The fateful day came five years later when Spector was arrested after 40-year-old Clarkson was found shot to death in the mansion s marble foyer. In court, Spector s chauffeur claimed the producer emerged from the back door of the home moments after the shooting with bloody hands and said, I think I killed somebody”.
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Welcome back to the Real Estate newsletter, where a wild first week of May was marked by two bizarre home listings, two massive mega-project announcements and an intriguing new possibility for one of the country’s most fabled estates to come to market.
Tyrese Gibson’s Woodland Hills home features a prop from a movie, while an infamous house in Alhambra features a dark past. Known as the Pyrenees Castle, the estate was where late record producer Phil Spector shot actress Lana Clarkson to death in 2003 following a drunken night out in Hollywood. After years on the market, it finally found a buyer.
Phil Spector’s castle, where he murdered Lana Clarkson, sells in Alhambra
Known as the Pyrenees Castle, the 1925 mansion sits behind walls and gates on a 2.6-acre knoll in Alhambra.
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May 4, 2021 4 PM PT
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Alhambra’s most notorious home, a castle-like estate where the late record producer Phil Spector shot Lana Clarkson to death in 2003, just sold for $3.3 million.
Spector, the erratic and disgraced producer behind the “Wall of Sound” recording technique who died in January, paid $1.1 million for the French Chateau-style mansion in 1998, telling Esquire magazine at the time that he had bought “a beautiful and enchanting castle in a hick town where there is no place to go that you shouldn’t go.” One neighbor likened him to a feudal lord among serfs.
DJ Khaled is parting ways with his West Coast residence.
The hip-hop mogul has quietly unloaded his Beverly Hills mansion for $12.5 million. According to Dirt.com, he sold the French Chateau-style estate for $2.6 million more than what he paid for it in late 2016, when he bought it from Robbie Williams for $9.9 million.
Beverly Hills-based plastic surgeon David Amron and his wife Jessica are the new owners of the 10,681-square-foot home in the exclusive Mulholland Estates located in the mountains above Beverly Hills.
Sitting on three quarters of an acre, the lavish pad features 6 bedrooms and 8 bathrooms with a massive kitchen, pool with grassy lawn, and gym, according to the 2016 listing details.