A "Farralone" estate which Frank Sinatra once called home but did not actually own, is currently listed for $7.5 million, reports Zillow. The online listing website said that it was where the crooner and Marilyn Monroe would "cool off and have fun".
Even though Sinatra never owned the house, the famed singer had rented it from the 50s to the 60s, with the sex icon reportedly a regular visitor. The property had become an alleged hookup house for Monroe and President John F. Kennedy, according to the property owner, Jim Fox. Fox stated he heard this "trysts" from their family friend who was the owner of the property just next to his.
The property Sinatra leased was made for an heiress named Doira Hutchinson. The estate was designed by William Pereira who is well-known for Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center and San Francisco's Transamerica Pyramid. Perreira is also the architect behind the Lax Building, notes the LA Times.
LA Times notes that the Chatsworth home is like a museum that offers a 360-degree view of the city and the mountains. The outlet further adds that the Sinatra-rented property has sixteen-foot-tall walls of glass bringing light into 6,661 square feet of interiors, which include a bar, a den-office and multiple fireplaces.
The Farralone estate has four bedrooms and seven baths, sitting on four acres of land. It was listed for $12M but with a guesthouse and 9 acres more, says Zillow.
The designer of the house used materials truly fit for royalty, as they were very advanced at that time. These were the same quality of materials used in the "Transamerica building: rubber pilings at every corner of the property" for earthquake proofing, Fox says.
The listing agent, Craig Knizek of The Agency, told Zillow that the Farralone property is unique because Pereira built "very few single-family homes, which makes this a real rarity. It was built in 1949, but to me it feels like how you'd build it today - hip and modern and cool," adds Knizek.
The agent said that William Pereira was thourough in building the house. He "came up here for a year to see how the sun hit the Santa Susana Mountains, to see what you'd see from the kitchen, from the bedroom, from the pool at sunrise and sunset," Knizek says.
"That's what elevates this to more than just a house. It's really a work of art, " adds the agent.
According to LA Times, this property was last sold in 1998 for $1.54 million. The outlet also notes that it has also appeared in the films "Swordfish," "Dreamgirls" and "Ali," and the TV show, "Mad Men."
Take a tour of the house with the video below.
