The house shown above is owned by Jeff Franklin, creator of the 1980s television sitcom “Full House”. Franklin is putting his Beverly Hills estate on the market for $85 million. The roughly 21,000-square-foot, Andalusian-style estate, recognizable for its distinctive blue dome, sits on about 3.6 acres near Benedict Canyon and has nine bedrooms and 18 bathrooms.
Here are some of the amenities:
- a shark tank
- a movie theater
- a spa
- a bedroom with a giant TV that comes out of the ceiling and then disappears when not in use
- an indoor Jacuzzi in the bathroom that’s like a swimming pool
- a gym
- a hair salon
- a billiards room
- six aquariums
- a bar
- a pool with three waterfalls, two hot tubs, a 35-foot waterslide, a swim-up bar, a private grotto, a koi pond, and a lazy river
Let’s assume you’ve got the $85 million to buy the house, and you love everything about it, from the architectural details, to the setting, to the amenities.
Now let’s throw in one additional piece of information.
The property is located on Cielo Drive, on land that once contained the house where the actress Sharon Tate and others were murdered by the Manson Family in 1969. The house where the murders occurred was demolished by a previous owner in the 1990s.
So the house where the murders took place is gone, but it’s the same property.
Could you do it? Could you live there knowing such a gruesome event took place on the property?
I couldn’t do it.
I think I’d be a little freaked out every time I heard a noise in the house or heard a car pull up in the driveway.
If I’ve got $85 million to spend on a house, I think there are plenty of other places I could find that would satisfy my needs, and wouldn’t constantly remind me of Helter Skelter…
*image and story source: Wall Street Journal
Oh, gosh no. I’d be like you and couldn’t sleep if I lived there. For that kind of money I would rather buy a big log mansion over in Jackson Hole where I’d sleep like a baby!
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that sounds pretty appealing!
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I like secondhand weatherboard houses to be honest. Something like that is too big to contemplate. I have my front and back yards, good neighbours, and a nice veggie patch. The house is 90 years old and definately not fancy but comfortable and easy to take care of.
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sounds like you’ve found your paradise…
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If I had 85 million to spend on a house, I would buy a house that was a lot cheaper and donate to rest to some worthy causes. The history of the property probably wouldn’t bother me unless the human criminals came with the sale.
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that would seem like the right thing to do, at least in terms of donating to a worthy cause. But I still don’t think I could live in such a place with those memories…
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I think it would be interesting to stay for a week like a actual haunted place
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I think I coud do a week..
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The Manson murders wouldn’t dissuade me, but the size of the house would. I’m getting old. I’d need a GPS tracker just in case I got lost in some distant room, and someone had to locate me. And think of how long it would take to vacuum the floors.
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I’m sur eif you are living in an $85 million dollar house, you could find someone to vacuum the floors. and you could also afford a 24/7 bodyguard to keep track of you all day…
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Very good points.
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I didn’t read the post because I don’t care what happened. I’d live there assuming I didn’t have to pay for upkeep. I’ll go back and read the horror story now.
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If I had 85 million I wouldn’t buy it as there are not enough bathrooms.
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🙂 I can see how that would be a problem…
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I dunno how I’d feel about it. But I’d definitely prefer a private island.
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a private island does sound appealing!
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When my wife and I were looking to buy our first home, most homes were out of our price range. The realtor kept showing us tiny homes or needing a complete remodel. It was almost hysterical how awful the places were. Then, she finally showed us an old house, but it had a little promise. It was the first home that we would consider making an offer until she told us the last owner was murdered inside the house. Needless to say, it was a hard no.
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that would have been a hard no for me as well.
I wonder how I’d feel though if I found out later, say after five years of living somewhere, that there had been a murder in my house…
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I believe the phrase is “what we don’t know can’t hurt us.”
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so sometimes it’s better not to know…
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With $85,000,000 I wouldn’t buy a house at all!
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just stay in hotels around the world?!
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Yes, plus cruise ships
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that sounds like a stress free life!
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Yup!
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no, never.
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would you move if you found out about it later, say after five years of living there?
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yes
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The property’s past would not dissuade me, again assuming I have $85 million. However, how is a man supposed to live comfortably if there is only one shark tank?
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I think I might start to get nervous if the shark started staring at me all the time…
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I wouldn’t buy it, not for the history but because it is a grossly obscene display of privilege and poor taste. I’d like to think I could do a lot of good for other people with $85m, and that wouldn’t include buying any politicians…
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I agree, but I wouldn’t mind staying there for a week to see what it’s like…
maybe with $85 million you could start your own record company…
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It just doesn’t appeal to me.
If I had that money I’d buy all the record companies releasing rap records, then close them down…
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Where does the poor taste come into this? WOuld you paint the blue dome a different color?
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🙂
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Wow, that’s quite a house (and very pretty), but I wouldn’t want all those amenities at home. I’m too much of a recluse already. Plus imagine having to clean 18 bathrooms. I hate cleaning the bathroom. In the earlyish eighties, my friends and I drove by the property in college park maryland where the real events of the exorcist supposedly took place. It was overgrown and abandoned. Probably available for a really good price. I don’t think I could live in that house either. Evil lingers.
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I’m thinking if yo could afford that house, you could afford to hir someone to clean the bathrooms…
I wouldn’t mind staying at place like this for a week, to see how the other half, or 1%, lives…
in college, a few of us took a drive past the Amityville Horror house on Long Island… it was creepy…
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You know, I have no idea how I would behave if I had 85 mil to spend on a house. I would probably be a very different person with different values and a whole lot of different fears and desires.
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that’s probably quite true – but what if you had jsut won the lottery?
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Hmmm…I am pretty sure that if I had just won the lottery I would not be buying an 85 mil house, and if I was, the change would have already started and in that case, it is possible that I would have been blinded by the need for excess and would have ignored the history. On the other hand, if it was me today buying a regular house, I would probably skip this one. Does that make sense?
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yes, I completely understand!
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I still listen to Beach Boys, and they’re also connected to Manson.
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How so?
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I think the Manson family actually lived with Brian Wilson for a while…
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Manson lived with Dennis Wilson, who was the Beach Boys Drummer, and brother to lead singer Brian Wilson and guitarist Carl Wilson. Dennis and Charles had a lot in common, namely their enthusiasm for sex, drugs and rock and roll.
On the latter front, Dennis and Charles wrote this smash hit wonder together.
If you’re interesting in digging into the Manson story a bit more I highly recommend the book “Chaos” by Tom O’Neill.
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Thanks. I read it on Wikipedia a few years ago; I hadn’t heard anything about it before that point.
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but the Beach Boys didn’t kill anyone, at least that I’m aware of…
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Neither did the house!
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after I wrote that about the Beach Boys, your comment was actually my first thought 🙂
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Haha, great minds think alike!
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The Land part doesn’t bother me on this one. Now, if it were property where bodies were found outside, it would be a Pass! It’s still a Pass, though because it’s way to large unless I could totally redo it and make most of it into a Cat Adoption Center!
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that would be quite the cat adoption center!
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I always wanted a pool for animals like orcas to swim in so the shark tank just works perfectly. No, I don’t think I’d really care since it’s a totally different house. Plus, lightning doesn’t strike twice in the same place, right?
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I wonder what the logistics would be like to get an orca into such a tank. I wonder if the property gets many people driving past it out of curiosity…
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I’m curious: if (assuming you had the $85m to buy it 🙂 ) you had bought the house, before you knew its history, lived there happily for a couple of years, and then found out its history, what would you do then?
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great question – hopefully I’d be able to sell it at that point for $100 million… 🙂
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I could not do it. I would be looking over my shoulder all of the time and expecting something evil to be lurking in every dark corner.
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same here…
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No I definitely couldn’t do it. I wouldn’t be able to sleep, every noise in the middle of the night would probably freak me out. For that kind of money I’m sure I could find something without a horrible background.
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I’m with you!
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NOPE! NOT ME, CAN’T DO IT! Even if it was given to me I’d sell it and then buy 100 other investment homes lol… also… why do you need THAT many bathrooms??? LOL
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I like the way you think – why not own a few homes scattered around the country/globe. and that is a lot of bathrooms!
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I don’t believe I would buy a house for $85 million, no matter what. But then again, I’ve never had $85 million…
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it’s fun to pretend though 🙂
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I love some of the amenities but there is no way I need a house that big! The history wouldn’t bother me. Do you really know what may have happened on your property years ago??
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but what if this were a beachfront?
and I may not know what happened on my property before I owned it, if I did, and it was something terrible, I might be a bit concerned…
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It would be more tempting if it was a beachfront property. I could rent out the rooms and never know that others are there!
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you could rent out to the stooges…
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I could, may make the price 3x higher. 😂
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you drive a hard bargain…
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Hey, its the beach. Its worth it right? And I will stock the fridge.
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coffee, wine, and shoofly pie…
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Aren’t you wise!
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The shark tank bothers me more!
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ethically, or just worrisome?
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Ethically
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I’m with you on that…
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Meh. I think I’d just prefer to build in Oregon with my $85 million.
Yes, the history would bother me.
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I am sure it would be quite the home. Would you build on the coast? and be sure to check the history of the property where you are going to build 🙂
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🙂 Good point. Everything has a history so I would go see how it feels.
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The reality is that all manner of terrible things have been done in locales we frequent and places we live. The dark side of houses are an ever present reality.
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that’s true, but once you know might make a difference…
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If I had that money I wouldn’t buy a house like that..not because of the history but a house that size couldn’t be home and its a no to shark tanks for me…
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I agree with having no shark tank. and I wouldn’t mind staying here for a week on vacation, but it might be a bit much to live in…
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HI Jim, I read Helter Skelter or Child of Satan, Child of God, by Susan Atkins when I was 11. It was given to me by my teacher, Sister Agatha [my mom was horrified when I let this slip last year after purchasing the book to re-read]. The story wouldn’t put me off buying a house, but I wouldn’t want a huge house like this anyway. I am a conservative person and am only interested in the library and the kitchen [tee hee]. My house is supposed to be haunted by the spirits of a gang of outlaws who were killed in a shoot out with the police here. I’ve never seen or heard from them.
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I guess reading that book at such an age may have had an influence on the kinds of stories you like. It is a big house; I’d like to go there on vacation for a week, but it would be too much all the time. And as far as I know, my house has no such secrets…
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Think I’ll stick to my one-bed Govanhill tenement, Jim. Cheers!
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your place has alot more character – plus you can walk to everything you need…
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I’d. just get lost in a hoose like that
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but it seems like it would be a fun place to get lost, unless you wandered into the shark tank…
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🦈🦈🦈
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Count me out! I’d have Charles Manson heebie-jeebies.
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same here!
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Yes as I’m Acting for movie’s
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There are plenty of way to spend 85 million than this property. No I wouldn’t buy it and it would creep me out.
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yes, 85 million could be spent in lots of ways. and this house would not be one of them…
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It is quite obscene that someone with that sort of money would spent it on a single house. Think what could be done to further mankind and the Planet.
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or some of that money could be given to me… 🙂
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Lol!
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