$125 million listing in L.A.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting today that a Los Angeles mansion has been listed for $125 million, which would make it one of the three highest-priced U.S. homes currently on the market. Known as Fleur de Lys and located near Beverly Hills (but in Bel-Air’s 90077 ZIP code), the mansion is tied for second place with Donald Trump’s $125 million listing for a Palm Beach mansion. The current high-water listing mark in the U.S. has been set by Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan’s ranch in Aspen. Colo., which is listed for $135 million. Located at 350 and 400 N. Carolwood Drive in Los Angeles, the Fleur de Lys mansion was completed in 2002, about five years after construction started. Modeled after Versailles and other French palaces, the mansion measures either 35,046 square feet (according to the Los Angeles County Assessor’s office) or 45,000 square feet (according to the Journal, which presumably took its info from famed listing agent Joyce Rey). Features in the mansion include Italian marble walls, French limestone floors, gold-embossed leather wall coverings, gold-leaf crown moldings, a ballroom with ceiling frescoes, a library with a first-edition book collection, two kitchens, and a 50-seat screening room, the Journal reported. Other features include a pool house with a full kitchen, massage room and gym, a three-bedroom manager’s house, staff quarters for 10, a nine-car garage and a ¾-mile jogging track, the paper reported. The mansion is on the market because its owners, Metro Networks founder David Saperstein (now a large shareholder of Westwood One stock) and his wife, Suzanne, recently divorced. Suzanne Saperstein got the house in the divorce, and now has put it on the market. Read this fascinating article from the U.K.’s Independent newspaper about the couple’s split. The Sapersteins bought the land in three phases, paying $5,375,000 in 1996 for the largest parcel and then picking up two other parcels in 1997 for $740,000 and $850,000, according to public records.

List on the mls for flat fee through Berg Properties.