Inside Playboy Mansion’s revamp as Hefner’s ‘decaying’ intercourse pad given $10m raise
The Playboy Mansion is being given a $10million makeover.
Daren Metropoulos reportedly splashed £100million on the enduring property after Hugh Hefner died there in 2017. It is likely one of the most well-known buildings in Los Angeles, recognized for its wild events and superstar visitors.
The businessman has spent nearly 4 years renovating it. He employed architect-to-the-stars Richard Landry to provide the intercourse pad a much-needed overhaul.
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Metropoulos vowed to revive the home to its “original grandeur” when metropolis officers campaigned to make it a delegated historic landmark.
In an settlement, it was stated the 14,000 sq. foot, 29 room mansion was in want of “substantial renovations and repairs following a long period of deferred maintenance”.
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According to Daily Mail, Metropoulos lives subsequent door to the Mansion and desires to merge the 2 estates. Plans lodged with the Los Angeles Department of City Planning counsel including a brand new basement.
Further plans embody demolishing an previous “staff house” to construct a 4,400 sq. ft house together with a “gym and a garage”. A brand new visitor home can also be anticipated to be erected.
Meanwhile, renovation work is happening off the “kitchen, family room, bathrooms, powder room” and “servant’s quarters”. New skylights may even present the property with extra brightness.
But 4 years on, it looks like they nonetheless have fairly a bit of labor to do. Recent photographs of the positioning present it’s nonetheless beneath building – however we will not wait to see the outcomes.
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Hugh Hefner purchased the Holmby Hills dwelling after being impressed by his mannequin ex-partner Barbi Benton. After snapping up the mansion in 1974, he resided there for greater than 4 many years with a plethora of “girlfriends” he known as “bunnies”.
Young socialites and rich celebrities would head to the well-known property for wild pool events and lavish occasions. Then behind closed doorways, some former bunnies recalled collaborating in seedy orgies and darkish drug binges.
Four years after Henfer handed away aged 91, the Mansion lay empty. Looters focused the house and grabbed Hef’s heirlooms, valuables and intercourse equipment.
A supply informed US Magazine Globe: “The bedrooms – even Hef’s – were stripped of things like sex toys, gold-plated statues, used sheets, and lingerie. Valuable art was snatched from the walls – with imprints of the frames still visible.”
Previously, photos emerged of an empty pool the place Hef as soon as entertained A-list visitors. The property itself can barely be seen behind scaffolding as a significant revamp is alleged to be underway.
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It’s no shock renovation work is happening given accounts of former bunnies.
In her 2010 guide, Bunny Tales, Hefner’s former girlfriend, Izabella St. James admitted the home was in want of main work.
She stated: “Everything in the Mansion felt old and stale, and Archie the house dog would regularly relieve himself on the hallway curtains, adding a powerful whiff of urine to the general scent of decay…
“Each bedroom had mismatched, random pieces of furniture. It was as if someone had gone to a charity shop and bought the basics for each room…
”The mattresses on our beds were disgusting – old, worn and stained. The sheets were past their best, too.”
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Then in 2015, Carla Howe informed The Sun that Hefner had allowed the property to fall into poor situation.
She stated: “He almost never leaves home and refuses to change anything in the Mansion, so the whole place feels like it’s stuck in the 1980s. There is no velvet or gold and all the carpets are brown and curling.
“The solely telephones you see are previous hang-on-the-walls and there is nothing hi-tech, even the fitness center gear has been there for years. And as a result of nothing has been modified within the rooms for therefore lengthy, they have a tendency to have a moist odor.”
Although the Playboy Mansion has lost its sparkle, Hefner’s legacy lives on. The men’s lifestyle and entertainment magazine was founded in 1953 and is still going today.
Even though the mag isn’t printed as regularly nowadays, the publication regularly shares articles online.
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While Hef was seen as a shrewd businessman with an open-minded view of intercourse for his technology, he stays to be a controversial character.
Former bunnies like Holly Madison have come ahead to share their experiences of residing within the Mansion.
While Holly seemed to be residing the excessive life as one among Hugh Hefner’s “main girlfriends”, her actuality was a lot darker. You can learn extra about her account of the Playboy Mansion right here.
Meanwhile, mannequin Crystal Hefner stated she was “enthralled” by the well-known property when she moved there. But after some time, she found its seedy facet.
Other residents additionally shared their issues. Jennifer Saginor moved into the Playboy Mansion when she was 11 years previous and stated within the Channel 4 documentary Secrets of Playboy that she witnessed harrowing sights that stayed together with her by way of to grownup life.
