I dunno, it seems to me that there’s plenty to be offended by in these photos without having to bring political indignation into it. Mais non! For I was originally sent this with the belief that it was the house of Zimbabwe’s President Mugabe. Trying to track down the article it originally came from, I found that Mugabe seemed to have the same interior decorator as Indian actor Shahrukh Khan, “Pakistan’s Prime Minister,” and who knows who else. Fortunately those smart cookies at Snopes have it figured out. It’s just a common-or-garden mansion in Los Angeles.
While not for sale and thus eligible for Not For Sale Wednesday, it is for rent! Kind of! If you have a photo shoot to do, go ahead and contact them. I know where I’ll be getting my next driver license photo taken, indeed I do.
Found by: Donna
Loveliest comment, by Kari von Cupcake: What a wonderful dream it would be to spend the rest of my days in this palatial Baroque wonderland of pure beauty. I would think King Louis XIV himself would be at a loss of words at this impressive edifice amidst the provincial “mansions” of the Bel Air area. Unfortunately, the everyday, common man no longer has an appropriate appreciation for things of unadulterated magnificence, such as this. What has modernity done to us?
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Is this what the inside of a bachelor party stripper cake looks like?
LOOOOOOL
That is one of the gaudiest things I have ever seen!!! Gross…It’s laughable. I would think it was from Saudi Arabia!
Blessed be this House of Gaud.
Oh, bravo, sir, bravo!
Early bordello
“Faugh faugh faugh, faugh faugh faugh faugh faugh, Muffy darling.”
For a moment there, I thought you were going to bust into “Psycho Killer” by the Talking Heads.
I’m kinda disappointed; but then, if it wasn’t for disappointment, I wouldn’t have any appointment. (rimshot)
No, for Talking Heads I would have just said, “Fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa,” not “faugh faugh faugh.”
I’m curious what TV shows have been shot there. I’m just not picturing it somehow.
I believe there was an episode of Nip/Tuck that was shot in the bedroom. Rosie O’Donnell played a nouveaux riche woman who just won the Powerball Lottery and she buys this gaudy house just because she can. And she enlists the help of the show’s main characters for some plastic surgery work.
Dear God. Louis XIV via 19th century brothel…
Vulgar.
Shows you that money can’t buy taste.
This brings up the line from the remake of Sabrina.
“More isn’t always better, Linus. Sometimes it’s just more.” And more. And more. And…good heavens, is there MORE? :runs screaming as her eyes are blinded by everlasting gaudiness:
Do posh people not do any colour other than BEIGE? Looks like the whole place was built out of meringue. I think I’m gonna be sick.
You know, it really does. Which would be great on a wedding cake, but is kinda disorienting in a house.
It gave me a headache just looking at the pictures. Living in it would kill me.
Meringue house is… half-baked.
How tiny must your pen!s be to need that much augmentation? Sheesh. However, I think Chair’s rich cousins are hanging out in pictures 18 and 19…
Image 80-81: The Chair Army is attacking! Retreat!
Talk about trying to hard to appear classy.
Ew…. yerk! :/
I wish I had this one. but I would be changing all the red to a deep ultramarine blue….
as well as gold leafing the wooden parts of the dining chairs. as well as poly coat them after the gold leafing. same with the plaster embossing on the ceiling. as well as painting sky with clouds up there.
the bedroom chairs would be stripped of the white paint and instead. they would be stained a nice mahogany.
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oh yea, make the servents wear slippers instead of shoes inside. as well as change one room if not more into a library if there is none.
I feel ick.
I think it funny this is a billion dollar home and it has a tacky pool fence?
From the Donald Trump school of “Money doesn’t equal taste.”
That is so fugly.
I like the style of this house! I would prefer darker colours myself, but it has a lovely… Versailles kind of feel to it. Lovely.
What a wonderful dream it would be to spend the rest of my days in this palatial Baroque wonderland of pure beauty. I would think King Louis XIV himself would be at a loss of words at this impressive edifice amidst the provincial “mansions” of the Bel Air area.
Unfortunately, the everyday, common man no longer has an appropriate appreciation for things of unadulterated magnificence, such as this. What has modernity done to us?
I totally agree with you.It would be purely sheer awesomeness to get to live in a house so magnificent.
Yikes, looks like a bunch of hillbillies live there. With their swimmin’ pools and movie stars.
Reminds me of Kimora Lee Simmons’ house in NJ — no joke.
http://blip.tv/file/638111
It’s not just a house, it’s an emetic too!
The only film I could see being produced here would be an ‘adult’ film. That bedroom! Ick!
Regardless of who owns it, it’s gaudy and hurts the eyes to look at. It makes Hearst Castle look restrained.
Check out the 3 giant velvet areolas on the headboard.
Hey, it’s Bill Murray’s fancy-pants mansion from “Zombieland” only even LESS believable.
Now you see where all that money and food we send to africa goes. Anyone else care to start a petition to stop sending billions in aid to african dictators yet?
the red stands out a bit…just a little
That bedroom looks like the one used in an episode of Nip/Tuck– the one where Rosie O’Donnell’s character wins the lottery and goes from poor tasteless trash to ridiculously rich tasteless trash.
That looks like Michelangelo’s house from Beethoven’s 4th the movie. Well, it does!
“Opulence. I has it.”
SHOW-OFFS!