Frank Sinatra's Beverly Hills Home Up for Sale
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Frank Sinatra's Beverly Hills Home Up for Sale
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The 14-room Beverly Hills mansion where
Frank Sinatra lived his way for 15 years, playing cards every Sunday and
hosting parties for a constellation of stars, has been put on the market for
$12.5 million, the listing agents said on Monday.
The entertainer's widow, Barbara Sinatra, placed the contemporary-style
furnished luxury home up for sale after buying a penthouse for herself in the
nearby Westwood section of Los Angeles in June, reportedly for $3 million.
Originally erected in the 1960s, the house was virtually doubled in size in
the late '80s when it was rebuilt, with a second floor added, just before the
Sinatras moved in. The legendary singer and actor lived there for about
15 years, until his death at age 82 in May 1998.
The guest book in the house offers testimony to the lavish parties thrown
and the panoply of celebrities entertained by the Sinatras in their home
over the years, from onetime members of his ``Rat Pack'' to media magnate
Walter Annenberg.
``You recognize every name as world famous people,'' Jeff Hyland, a
partner in the real estate firm Hilton & Hyland, said. ``The Pecks, the
Annenbergs, the Wilders. You name them and all those people were there.''
At a party celebrating Sinatra's 80th birthday, ``he had Bob Dylan and Bruce
Springsteen there, and the three of them were around the piano playing and
singing,'' he said. ``And Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme were there.''
The home also was the venue for Sinatra's weekly card game with friends.
Located on a gated lot up a private driveway just north of Sunset Boulevard,
the house boasts nearly 9,000 square feet (836 square meters) of floor space,
including an art gallery and a gymnasium, a master bedroom suite, a guest
suite and two maids' quarters, Hyland said. The house also comes with
swimming pool, spa, a kennel and two artificial waterfalls and a three-car garage.
Hyland declined to describe the furnishings offered for sale with the house,
but said they include a piano that Sinatra played and a pillow in the master
suite embroidered by hand with the words, ``The best is yet be,'' an allusion
to Sinatra's hit song, ``The Best is Yet to Come.''
The home is listed for sale with the Beverly Hills real estate firm of Hilton
& Hyland in conjunction with Christie's Great Estates, the real estate division
of Christie's auction house.
Cheers,
TD
Wait till you see that sunshine place
Ain't nothin' like it here
The best is yet to come and babe, won't it be fine?
from Frank Sinatra's "The Best Is Yet To Come"
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