Jeff Bezos Buys a House Next to David Geffen’s Jack Warner Estate
Jeff Bezos’s latest real estate purchase is decidedly modest compared to his previous acquisitions: a $10 million Beverly Hills traditional home that sits adjacent to the sprawling 10-acre Jack Warner estate he purchased earlier this year. (In February, the Amazon CEO paid a record $165 million for the historic compound, which previously belonged to megaproducer and philanthropist David Geffen.) Still, Bezos’s new property is still impressive—originally built in 1930, the 4,615-square-foot two-story house was designed by noted architect Sumner Spaulding and was recently given a major upgrade by the current owner, who purchased the home for $5.45 million in 2018. Dated listing photos show a sweet, sun-drenched home with dark hardwood floors, built-in bookshelves, and crown molding in most of the main living areas. A brick fireplace in the formal living room is flanked by French doors that open onto the tree-lined outdoors. (The house has a total of six fireplaces.) The dining room, made spacious by a white-painted lofted wood-beam ceiling, also has a set of French doors that open onto an enclosed brick courtyard ideal for outdoor dining.
The hedge-fronted place comprises three bedrooms and four-and-a-half bathrooms, and also features a den, a media room, a library, and a number of intricate wrought-iron-lined balconies on the second floor that overlook the courtyard. In the back, an offering of vegetable and rose gardens round out the understated property. In addition to the Geffen estate, Bezos also bought a fourth apartment in a Manhattan building for $16 million this spring, reportedly with plans to combine all four units into a dream home overlooking Madison Square Park. Prior to the apartment purchase, Bezos had also dropped $90 million for a 120-acre lot of land that once belonged to the late Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen; the deal apparently fell through one month later, however. The tech billionaire’s other homes are scattered throughout the U.S., spanning from Washington, D.C., to California, Texas, and Washington state.
Originally Appeared on Architectural Digest
