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Friday, January 21, 2011

HOUSE OF THE DAY: Gore Vidal Lists $3.495 Million Hollywood Mansion - Los Angeles-Platinum Triangle-Beverly Hills-Holmby Hills-Bel Air-Sunset Strip-Hollywood Hills-Luxury Estates-homes for sale-listings-Realtor-Real Estate - http://www.ChristopheChoo.com

The patio

Image: Coldwell Banker

Intellectual superstar Gore Vidal has listed his Mediterranean mansion in the celebrity-loaded Hollywood Hills area of Los Angeles, according to The Real Estalker.

The 4-bedroom, 4-bathroom, 4,800 square footer--which sits atop a 20,000 square foot lot at 2562 Outpost Drive--is now selling at $3.495 million. That's some serious profit considering Vidal bought the property in 1977 for $149,500.

In fact, that's a whopping 23 TIMES his purchase price.

It's also an incalculable accumulation of avant-garde history.

In the 80-plus years of his life, Gore Vidal--with blue-blooded ties to Jackie O, Jimmy Carter and Al Gore--has embodied the many intellectual -ist's: novelist, essayist, journalist, and activist. As well as screenwriter and political provocateur -- "there is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat" -- and literary incendiary. His 1948 "The City and the Pillar," was the first American novel to feature homosexuality straight up, and his 1968 "Myra Breckinridge" was a transsexual satire.

From the looks of it, Vidal had quite a bit of thinking room in this house with its high ceilings, an office overflowing with books, and a still-stuck-in-the-60s livingroom overlooking a fountain. There's also the patio, dining room and meditation room. His guests had the luxury of staying in the guest house by the swimming pool.  

Also a LOT of gilt.  A lot.

HOUSE OF THE DAY: Gore Vidal Lists $3.495 Million Hollywood Mansion - Los Angeles-Platinum Triangle-Beverly Hills-Holmby Hills-Bel Air-Sunset Strip-Hollywood Hills-Luxury Estates-homes for sale-listings-Realtor-Real Estate - http://www.ChristopheChoo.com

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