The Playboy Mansion (also known as the Playboy Mansion West out of deference to the original Playboy Mansion that was located in Chicago at 1340 N. State Parkway: Chicago, Illinois, 60610-6103), is in the Holmby Hills area of Los Angeles, California and is the home of Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner. The address is 10236 Charing Cross Rd., Los Angeles, California 90024. The mansion became famous during the 1970s through media reports of Hefn...
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The Playboy Mansion (also known as the Playboy Mansion West out of deference to the original Playboy Mansion that was located in Chicago at 1340 N. State Parkway: Chicago, Illinois, 60610-6103), is in the Holmby Hills area of Los Angeles, California and is the home of Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner. The address is 10236 Charing Cross Rd., Los Angeles, California 90024. The mansion became famous during the 1970s through media reports of Hefner's lavish parties.
The 21,987 sq ft (2,042.7 m) house is described as being in the "Gothic-Tudor" style by Forbes magazine, and sits on 5.3 acres (21,000 m). It was built by architect Arthur R. Kelly in 1927 and acquired by Playboy from Louis D. Statham (1908–1983), an engineer, inventor and chess aficionado, in 1971 for $US1.1 million ($US5.5 million in 2007 dollars). It sits close to the northwestern corner of the Los Angeles Country Club, near UCLA and the Bel-Air Country Club. Fifteen million dollars has been invested in renovation and...
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