{"id":3889,"date":"2023-11-14T11:52:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T11:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/14\/playboy-mansion-still-undergoing-10m-renovation-7-years-after-new-owner-purchased-it\/"},"modified":"2023-11-14T11:52:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T11:52:35","slug":"playboy-mansion-still-undergoing-10m-renovation-7-years-after-new-owner-purchased-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/14\/playboy-mansion-still-undergoing-10m-renovation-7-years-after-new-owner-purchased-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Playboy Mansion Still Undergoing $10M Renovation 7 Years After New Owner Purchased It"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Seven years after the son of a billionaire purchased the Playboy Mansion, the sprawling Los Angeles residence is still undergoing extensive renovations, according to an exclusive in the Daily Mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Four years into the estimated $10 million renovation, the home doesn\u2019t appear close to finished, according to the Mail.<\/p>\n

Entrepreneur Daren Metropoulos<\/strong>\u00a0purchased the 29-room mansion for $100 million<\/a> in 2016. The famous home, located in Holmby Hills, an exclusive area near Beverly Hills, had originally been listed<\/a> for twice as much. But the property came with a tenant: Playboy founder Hugh Hefner<\/strong>, who was allowed to live on the property until his death in September 2017.<\/p>\n

Before his death, Playmates had complained the mansion was dilapidated<\/a> and \u201cstuck in the 1980s,\u201d as Playmate Carla Howe<\/strong> previously told The Sun<\/a>. Hefner had purchased it for $1.05 million in 1971<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Metropoulos hired architect Richard<\/strong> Landry<\/strong>, whose celebrity-studded roster of clients has included Tom Brady<\/strong>\u00a0and Giselle B\u00fcndchen<\/strong>, Mark Wahlberg<\/strong>, and Kylie Jenner<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Metropoulos plans to connect the Playboy Mansion estate with his home next door to create a roughly 7.3-acre compound. He had purchased the other home in 2009 from Hefner and his now ex-wife Kimberly Conrad <\/strong>for $18 million, according to the Los Angeles Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Some of the work being done on the home, where the popular TV show \u201cThe Girls Next Door\u201d was filmed, includes constructing a 4,400 addition to the main house. When it\u2019s finished, the main house alone will be 18,000 square feet.<\/p>\n

Metropoulos is also having a new basement under the mansion constructed, building a new guesthouse, and adding a golf simulator and a solarium to the property. The in-house movie theater is getting larger.<\/p>\n

The main house is also undergoing renovations with planned kitchen, bathroom, and family room remodels and an updated guest suite on the second floor.<\/p>\n

Shortly after the purchase, Metropolous told the Wall Street Journal<\/a> that he looked \u201cforward to eventually rejoining the two estates and enjoying this beautiful property as my private residence for years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

Metropolous is known as the \u201cTwinkie King\u201d as he was the former co-owner of Hostess Brands. He has also served as co-CEO of Pabst Brewing. In 2021, he purchased a five-bedroom, oceanfront home in Miami for $18 million, according to The Real Deal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Playboy Mansion has a legendary history, with some of the biggest names having been guests at the home.<\/p>\n

Former President (and current presidential candidate)\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0<\/strong>filmed an episode of \u201cThe Apprentice\u201d at the mansion in 2006. And John Lennon\u00a0<\/strong>allegedly burned an original Matisse<\/strong> in the home with a cigarette.<\/p>\n

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FREDERIC J. BROWN\/AFP via Getty Images Seven years after the son of a billionaire purchased the Playboy Mansion, the sprawling Los Angeles residence is still undergoing extensive renovations, according to an exclusive in the Daily Mail. Four years into the estimated $10 million renovation, the home doesn\u2019t appear close to finished, according to the Mail….Read More→<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}