BUYER: Brian Tyler
LOCATION: Los Angeles, CA
PRICE: $7,975,000
SIZE: 7,614 square feet, 5 bedrooms, 7 bathrooms
YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Your Mama is not sure how much we can add to the already interminable discussions and commentary about this horizontally inclined mansion—tucked privately down a gated driveway in an out of the way enclave off Mulholland Drive in the Hollywood Hills—with all its much dissed and drooled over melodramatic glassy-glassyiness. So, with an uncharacteristic attempt at brevity, Your Mama will try to stick (mostly) just to the facts.
Digital marketing materials we dug up and the cavalcade of property gossip tongue wagging that went on when the property, with its super-flash glass-walled garages and glass-walled living spaces, was originally listed in May 2013 for $7.9 million. By the end of the year the price tag had ballooned to $8.5 million. Raising the price can and will seem rude and entirely counter-intuitive to some not savvy to the highways and alleyways of high end real estate but—skeptics take note—clearly somebody knew what they were doing because the sleek and architecturally lascivious residence sold at the end of March (2014) for $7.975 million to—as per the ever-vigilant real estate yenta Yolanda Yakketyyak—prolific film and television producer Brian Tyler.
Mister Tyler and his slender frame and movie star hair are little known to Joe and Josephine Public but his musical compositions certainly are not. His impressively long and robust resume includes original scores for a whole lotta big budget sci-fi action adventures: Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World, The Expendables, the 2008 reprise of Rambo, and the original Fast & Furious (2009) as well as Fast Five and the upcoming Fast & Furious 7. Along with a few high-profile film gigs on his plate Mister Tyler currently does the music for the Sleepy Hollow and Hawaii Five-0 television series. He's busy, children, and just because you ain't never heard of him don't mean he's not a Showbizness powerhouse who can afford an $8 million house with what must be staggering window washing bills.
The existing house sits on a .85 acre parcel that was once part of apparently pervy silver screen big hunk Errol Flynn's Mulholland Farm estate. So the scuttlebutt goes, Mister Flynn's long ago razed party pad had a casino room and a leather padded bar tended by a bald Russian exile he kept on full time retainer. A secret door in the bar opened into a tiny, triangular room with a two-way mirror into the restroom, presumably so Mister Flynn and his voyeuristic pals could watch people pee and Lord only knows what else. Good grief. Some people have such kooky proclivities. Anyways...
A much larger chunk of Mister Flynn's Mulholland Farm estate was sold to Helen Hunt in 1997 who custom built a huge Mediterranean mansion she sold in 2002 to its current owner Justin Timberlake who lives there—as far as we know—with his pillow-lipped actress wife Jessica Biel. We can't vouch for the veracity but a gated compound at the far end of the enclave is believed by some property gossips and other celebrity property watchers to be owned by Tom Cruise who—rumor has it—bought and rehabbed the property to be used as some sort of Scientology retreat or some such nonsense.
The title chain for the property presents itself with some frustrating murk but Your Mama's research shows the property in question was purchased in 1980 by singer-songwriter Ricky Nelson. The property was sold to developer in the later 1980s who, we're pretty sure, built the previous iteration of the current house and sold it in 1997—for a reported $1.85 million—to car-collecting financier Jack Corwin. The previous iteration of the existing residence was built in 1987, as per the L.A. County Tax Man, but it was Mister Corwin who transformed whatever residence was here into the exuberantly lit, multi-level glass-walled extravaganza that it is today.
Digital marketing materials and reports from the time it was listed on the open market show there are five bedrooms and seven bathrooms in 7,641 square feet. A few of the sybaritic residence's more impressive features include a sprawling, multi-level living room lounge that looks like it could be the lobby of a swanky boo-tique hotel, a state-of-the-art media room, a gym—rich Angelenos prefer not to sweat in public, and the aforementioned pair of glass-walled garages that will accommodate and display up to nine cars. More private quarters include a private guest bedroom suite, a separate guest house, and a spacious open plan master suite with a multi-level platform with three-sided fireplace, integrated tub, and glassed in steam shower.
A series of planted terraces extend off the glassy rear of the residence and step down to a massive, foliage-ringed terrace with large swimming pool and separate, slightly elevated spa. A glass wall in the main living space on the other side of the house looks out to a grassy courtyard over-looked by the ass-end of one of the two glass-walled garages. Did we mention the walls of the garages are all glass? We did. Okay then...
listing photos: Hilton & Hyland
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