LOCATION: Los Angeles, CA
PRICE: $1,085,000
SIZE: 2,711 square feet, 2-3 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms
YOUR MAMAS NOTES It was actually actor Shia LaBeouf who, back in 2011, let the celebrity real estate cat out of the bag when he told Regis and Kelly—and, by extension, the world—that four-time Grammy-nominated goth-rocker Marilyn Mansion was then living—and remained living—in a rented loft above a liquor store on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood where he wrote and recorded much of his eighth studio album Born Villain.*
Fast forward to early October 2013 when three separate sources—first Raven Stringplucker, then Babbling Babette, and, finally, Lucy Spillerguts—snitched to Your Mama that the tenebrous and frequently polemical middle-aged rock-n-roll ghoul decided it's high time to settle into more traditional living circumstances and, just a couple weeks ago, plunked down $1,085,000 for a tired but dignified Spanish-style casa on two hillside lots in a little-lauded pocket of the Hollywood Hills.
Listing details show the two-story residence was built in 1926 and spans 2,711 square foot residence with two bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms. A potential third bedroom—or office or art studio or whatever—is accessible by separate entrance and has a private patio, a private bathroom, and a large storage space.
A long stairway snakes up the hillside from the street to the front door that opens directly into a deliciously cavernous living room with wood floors, a double-height ceiling with exposed wood beams, a corner fireplace, and a tall arched window that opens to a rather utilitarian concrete terrace with through the tree top view. The extra-large formal dining room has enough room for separate eating and sitting spaces plus a shallow and architecturally appropriate barrel ceiling, and steel-framed French doors that open to to a Juliet balcony.
The fairly frumpy looking galley kitchen has ho-hum raised panel cabinetry, average-grade stainless steel appliances, out-dated orangey-beige tile counter tops, and one of those gawdawful greenhouse windows over the sink that Your Mama dislikes so much that Rule #1057 in Your Mama's Big Book of Decoratin' Dos and Don'ts specifically states that, "No kitchen of distinction or grace will feature a greenhouse window over the sink. Ever." Anyways...
An extra-wide second floor gallery overlooks the living room and leads to double master suites that are each complete, as per digital marketing materials, with a walk-in closet and an attached bathroom dressed in original tiles. While the black and white checked tile on the floor might be original in both bathrooms Your Mama is pretty damn sure the black toilet and brass-fixtured double sinks in the one bathroom are not original to the house.
The kitchen opens to a fenced side yard with a concrete terrace that backs up to a steep and planted if not exactly landscaped hillside and looks out over the a house-dotted canyon. The other side of the house opens from the upper level gallery to a smaller but grassy yard that's ringed by a tangle of foliage and punished with a too-wacky fountain. (If Mister Mansion would just take that cherub-encrusted central piece out and leave the tiled circular part it's a workable situation. But otherwise it's just poorly executed kitsch-crap.)
Some of Mister Manson's famous-y new neighbors include Morgan Fairchild, Brigitte Nielson—who only bought her fixer upper last year for $600,000, and Extreme Home Makeover designer Paul DiMeo who's had his house on and off the market a couple of times over the last couple years
As far as Your Mama's research shows Mister Manson has owned (at least) two other houses in the Los Angeles area. First he owned a multi-story Spanish with head on views of the Hollywood sign over Lake Hollywood—sold in 2004 for $1,510,000—and later a 4,500 square foot house in the ultra-suburban community of Chatsworth in the extreme northern section of the San Fernando Valley that he briefly shared with his ex-wife, burlesque queen Dita Von Teese, and sold in late October 2007 for $1,025,000.
*So the story goes, Mister Manson first spent time in the liquor store loft in the mid-1990s when it was occupied by busy actor Billy Zane.
listing photos: Keller Williams
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