Raquel Welch's Longtime L.A. Home Just Sold for $3.1 Million
First offered a year ago for around $4 million and subsequently reduced to $3.7 million, the Mediterranean-style villa in the exclusive Beverly Glen Circle neighborhood of Bel Air sold to British film producer, writer, and director Justin Hyne for just $600,000 more than the $2.5 million Welch doled out for the place in 2009. Ernie Carswell and Lloyd Ross of Douglas Elliman and Brett Lawyer of Carolwood Estates shared the listing, with Ariel Belkin of The One Luxury Properties repping the buyer.
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Built in the late '90s, the blush-hued stucco and terracotta-roof structure rests high atop a hedged and gated parcel of land spanning less than a quarter of an acre. Inside, roughly 5,100 square feet of multi-level, cream-hued living space includes a column-lined entrance gallery that flows to a glass-walled living room sporting a stone fireplace and French doors spilling out to a pergola-shaded terrace and sundeck-encased pool and spa beyond.
Other highlights include a formal dining area and an office with a kitchenette. A family room connects to the kitchen, which is outfitted with wood cabinetry, an eat-in island, and a cozy breakfast banquette. Upstairs, four en-suite bedrooms include a spacious primary retreat boasting a fireside seating area, two walk-in closets, and a luxe bath with dual vanities and a built-in spa tub. Rounding it all out: a top-floor bonus space, plus an oversized garage hosting a bath-equipped room with its own entrance that could easily serve as a gym or guest site.
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Long before Bo Derek ran down the beach in her Fulani braids and Farrah Fawcett posed in that iconic red swimsuit, there was Welch in her infamous doeskin bikini as seen in One Billion Years B.C. Though she was named by Playboy as one of its '100 sexiest female stars of the 20th century,' coming in third behind Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield, the Golden Globe-winning actress (The Three Musketeers) refused to strip down for movies or magazine shoots.
'I am my father's daughter and that's just not the way you behave,' she told Piers Morgan on his Life Stories show in 2015. 'You don't do that if you are a certain kind of a woman and that's the kind of woman I was raised to be.'Best of Robb Report
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