Ladies come in all different shapes and sizes and so does the shelter they choose to live in. While some dames prefer luxury condos in sky-high towers, others favor sprawling manors with jumbo mortgage worthy price tags. The real estate and rental market is inundated with a large variety of properties that some of the most infamous women have called home during their lifetimes and Mortgage Marvel is happy to share the stats on a handful of options.
Grey Gardens, The Hamptons
Anybody that is anybody knows that summering in the Hamptons (tony hamlets in Long Island, New York's far east end) is always chic. The region has provided plenty of celebrities and average folks with respite from NYC living for decades, but socialites, Big Edie and Little Edie (mother and daughter duo with the same name of Edith Beale) are forever linked to the area courtesy of the time they spend living in a luxury mansion turned decrepit heap, Grey Gardens.
When originally constructed in 1897, architect Joseph Greenleaf Thorpe designed the 14-room, shingle-style project as a gracious home for New York's elite. In 1923 Phelan Beale and matriarch Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale (first cousin of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis) purchased the home. Phelan left Big Edie for another woman and eventually the mother and daughter set permanently settled into the digs. Over time, their lack of financial resources left the manor crumbling around them. The property and their reclusive life styles became a focus of interest for the world at large courtesy of an assortment of news articles, documentaries and movies.
Big Edie died in 1977 and Little Edie sold the house in 1979. The terms of that sale prohibited the new owners from razing the home and instead, Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn spent time and money remodeling the property to its former glory. That glorious incarnation of the home is now available to summer renters for $135k. That fee will provide tenants with two weeks time.
Charlie's True Angel Condo For Sale
Texas born actress, artist and style icon, Farrah Fawcett, rose to fame starring in Aaron Spelling's 1970 television series, Charlie's Angels. The natural beauty went on to pursue more dramatic roles, but her poster featuring gorgeously feathered hair, a beaming smile and red swimsuit captured her at her physical best. Sadly, Fawcett was diagnosed with cancer in 2006. She opted to document her battle with the disease on film, but lost and died on June 25, 2009.
Her estate has officially listed her Wilshire condominium unit for sale at a jumbo mortgage worthy price tag of $1.885 million (with monthly HOA fees of $2,993). The unit is 2,767 square feet and has three bedrooms and two and one-half bathrooms. Residents of this property will have access to the building’s luxury amenities including a concierge, valet parking, wine storage lockers, a gym and pool.
The House that Psycho Built
Before the Beales and Farrah become public figures, California born actress Janet Leigh was turning heads and getting her fair share of the spotlight. In 1948, Leigh was voted Hollywood's "No. 1 glamour girl' and went on to become a popular starlet. Although she starred in a multitude of high profile films, it was her role as Marion Crane in the Alfred Hitchcock 1960's film Psycho that will forever be etched in the memories of fans. Leigh died on October 3, 2004.
During her lifetime, Janet bought and moved into a single family detached home in Beverly Crest, California. That 14,400-square-foot, two-story residence home complete with three fireplaces, an outdoor kitchen, a tennis court, and swimming pool is on the local multiple listing service for $4.5 million.
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