Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Cher Wants to Unload in West Hollywood

SELLER: Cher
LOCATION: West Hollywood, CA
PRICE: $5,500,000
SIZE: 4,000 (or so) square feet,

YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Your Mama heard it the other day from two separate but impeccable sources but the ever-intrepid celebrity gossips at TMZ got to it before we did and revealed today that Showbiz über-icon Cher has quietly floated her duplex pied-a-terre at the star sprinkled Sierra Towers building in West Hollywood, CA as an off-market listing with an asking price somewhere around $5,500,000.

Your Mama actually heard from both our tattletales that Cher has allowed the duplex to be shown for some time now with an asking price closer to six million bucks and a third, also impeccable informant, told us not to be surprised if the duplex—located on the 26th and 27th floors and joined by a tight, corkscrew spiral staircase—soon pops up on the open market.

Most reports say Cher paid $4.5 million for the two floor condo-crib but the property records we peeped clearly show she actually purchased the pied-a-terre in January 2006 for $3,000,000 from eccentric actor/producer and part-time high end house flipper Vincent Gallo.

Most reports also say the two-floor apartment measures somewhere around 4,000 square feet and maybe it does. However, according to the L.A. County Tax Man, the combo condo contains just 2,302 square feet. Make of those discrepancies what y'all will.

Anyhoo, like her former Sierra Towers neighbor Sir Elton John, soon after Cher acquired her in-town hideaway, the Malibu resident engaged the flamboyant services of wildly pretentious Million Dollar Decorator Martyn Lawrence-Bullard who worked the duplex over as an "ethnic, spicy and romantic" faux-Buddhist fantasia that she had photographed for the high-gloss pages of Architectural Digest's July 2010 issue by superstar photographer Tim Street-Porter.

Some of the other current high-profile residents/owners at Sierra Towers include Courtney Cox, Joan Collins, PJ Harvey, Diahann Carroll and Tawny Kitaen. Previous owners include Matthew Perry, Harry Morton, David Geffen, Sidney Poiter and, as mentioned above, Sir Elton John and his hubby David Furnish who recently sold their pair of adjacent but un-combined Martyn Lawrence-Bullard decorated apartments for a combined $4,634,000.

For what it's worth, we also heard through the celebrity real estate gossip grapevine that, even though she previously turned down two full price offers for her massive, Italian Renaissance-style Malibu mansion, if you know who to call it can still be shown with its same ol' $45,000,000 price tag.

photos: Tim Street-Porter for Architectural Digest (via Curbed)

16 comments:

Anonymous said...

Lord!!! The decor.. Sad day mama..

Anonymous said...

This was also owned by her (uhum) ex David Geffen. I believe he is the one who combined the 2 units.

Anonymous said...

Seems like more Celeb's are getting out of this building, rather than buying in....

Anonymous said...

If you don't pay attention 6:10

Celebs move alot-- and this building has them moving in and out all the time. Courtney Cox recently bought and moved in.

She wants to unload her Trousdale house which I hear had an offer on it recently and spend most of her time in Malibu with this place as an intown.

Anonymous said...

There is a bathtub in the middle of the bedroom if I remember right.

Madam Pince said...

The decor reminds me of when she had her Sanctuary catalog.

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Anonymous said...

Turning down "two full price offers" is just stupid. Why would she do that? Guess cause shes an old Diva huh?

lil' gay boy said...

Believe me, I really do love me some MLB, but it seems that all his work for "celebrities" (as opposed to the merely rich) always comes across as sycophantic & unattractively over-the-top -- like squeezing two pounds of bologna into a one pound bag.

The coffee table is to die for; the other accessories -- not so much.

I would sell my own mama for that daybed on the terrace, but the plethora of beige cushions & throws is simply too much -- likewise the bed in the presumably master bedroom; by itself, OK -- with the credenza and the arches? The effect is startlingly close to upscale Moroccan brothel.

Anonymous said...

The view is great... not sure but I'd say the taxman is correct. From the picutres it look slike she has the south facing center unit which is 1,151 sq.ft., duplexed to 2,302 sq.ft. Perhaps she has a third unit combined in for 4,000? I dunno... but I'd like to see the south facing corner 3 br unit duplexed. Just saying.

Desert Donna said...

Cher measures like a Man

Desert Donna said...

Cher measures like a Man

Anonymous said...

@ Cher measures like a man...

genuine laugh on that one

doug said...

If memory serves me, it was Jack Webb who duplexiated this place.

GiltEdgeGirl said...

If I could turn back time...I would love to see the space before the makeover.

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