One-fifth of a billion dollars is a helluva lot of dough to spend on a roof over your head, but in this case it might be intriguing to at least a few nostalgic smut collectors would-be buyers.
Because for the price of an F-22 Raptor jet (or the production of the movie Titanic) you can call perhaps the most famous mansion in the world, yours. Oh, and you can inherit a wealthy, dirty old man/magnate roommate with a penchant for wearing silk robes, robbing the cradle and informing you that he’s a World War II veteran (because he is).
This from the Chicago Tribune:
For $200 million, the Playboy Mansion, where risque parties have raged for decades, could be yours.
But you might want to think twice if you’re aiming to close escrow on the famous property that went on the market Monday and move in quickly, since Playboy Magazine founder and party master Hugh Hefner has often said he will never live anywhere else.
Negotiations between the seller and buyer would determine whether the 89-year-old playboy stays for free or rents the place back.
The 5-acre property in Los Angeles’ exclusive Holmby Hills has seen thousands of celebrities and beautiful women pass through its doors.
It features 29 rooms, game house, home theater, wine cellar, gym, tennis court, swimming pool and four-bedroom guest house. It also comes with the notorious cave-like grotto where Playboy bunnies have long frolicked with guests.
Hefner served in the United States Army from 1944 to 1946 and spent much of his time as a writer for a military newspaper. After graduating from the University of Illinois in 1949, he got a job as a copywriter for Esquire, but quit in 1952 after being denied a five-dollar raise. A year later he launched Playboy (which he originally was going to be called “Stag Party”). One of the early investors (there were 45) in the bawdy business venture? Hugh’s mother.