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SELLER: Paul Oakenfold
LOCATION: Oporto Drive, Los Angeles, CA
PRICE: $10,000,000
SIZE: 4,573 square feet, 4 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms
DESCRIPTION: One of the best sited view homes on its own promontory in LA w/ sweeping vus directly above the Hollywood Bowl to the LA Basin, ocean & beyond. Down road's end is this gracious celebrity owned French Provençal updated several years ago & subsequently added onto by the present owner w/ recording studio, formal DR, offices, gourmet kit w/ loft & huge LR. Sultry master w/ FPL overlooking the city. Expansive patios, grassy lawn, pool, spa & bleachers to watch the Hollywood Bowl. A very rare opportunity.
YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Let this Hollywood Hills property be a lesson to all you budding mixers, scratchers and spinners out there whose parents snipe and whine about you wanting to pursue a career as a DJ, because this hill topper of a house, for sale with an impressive $10,000,000 asking price, belongs to none other that techno/trance DJ and music mix-master Paul Oakenfold. Your Mama is sure that some of you old farts don't have a clue who Mister Oakenfold is or why he has so much damn money. However, Your Mama likes to stay current with what the young people are listening to, so we know exactly who Mister Oakenfold is and the undeniable impact he's had on the shape and sound of modern music not to mention the night lives of audiophile scensters around the world. Some reports say that Mister Oakenfold is in such demand that he is able to command upwards of $25,000 per gig. Not bad work if you can get it, right?
Property records indicate that Mister Oakenfold and his now dee-vorced wifey, the not so successful ack-tur-us Angela Oakenfold, purchased this house on a private promontory overlooking the twinkling lights of Los Angeles in April of 2003 from Baker Bloodworth who appears to be the producer of several animated films and shorts. We were unable to locate the actual purchase price for the house, but all signs point to the Oakenfolds forking over somewhere between $2,500,000 and $3,000,000 for the Oporto Drive property. Now children, don't quote Your Mama on that price. We have pieced that number together in an ass-backwards sort of way, and we may be very close to correct or we might be wildly off track.
Not long after purchasing the house, the former couple embarked on an extensive renovation that included adding a 1,400 square foot second-story addition and, as you might imagine, squeezing in a sound studio. Assessor records put the square footage at 4,763, but we simply don't know if that includes the 1,400 square foot addition, or not. Listing information for the house indicates there are 4 bedrooms and 6 bathrooms as well as living and dining rooms, and eat in and "gourmet" kitchen with a loft space above, an office, a security system, multiple patios and terraces, a long stretch of grass for the kiddies, and a two car garage.
Your Mama has mixed emotions about this house. We are not digging the over all French Provençal architectural thing, if that's what it's called, and we're more than a little concerned about the somewhat unpleasant view of the house from the street (top left photo). We are very pleased to see that the scale and cascading terraces along the side of the house where the swimming pool is located offer a much more hospitable and friendly countenance, although we're still not certain that we like the exterior of house at all.
What we do like is that it appears that most of the major rooms open up to the outside through a stunning number of French doors. We also appreciate there are two fireplaces in the Oakenfold home (1 gas, 1 wood burning), but if we're being honest, and we always try to be, we hate the fussy and yet, not quite fussy enough fireplace mantels in the living room and the master bedroom. The Oakenfolds clearly did not hire someone with a sense of style and taste to do up the interior spaces, and we find furniture choices and arrangements lackluster at best. But let's be honest kids, the furniture, thankfully, goes with Mister Oakenfold and the new owner will likely hire a team of nice gay decorators to work their fairy magic on the interiors.
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