Music producer Barbara Orbison — yes, Roy's widow — sells her house in Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills for $2.6M
Music producer Barbara Orbison, who is the widow of music legend Roy Orbison, has sold her house in the Bird Streets area of Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills for $2,600,000.
Blockshopper.com broke the story on Thursday of Orbison’s sale of the house, which is at 9255 Swallow Drive in the Bird Streets area of Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills. The deal closed on May 11, with the transaction being recorded on May 20, according to public records. The buyer is not a celebrity.
We first had broken the story of Orbison’s listing of the house, way back on December 15. The house — which also was the final home of screen legend Vincent Price — had been listed for $2,795,000.
Built in 1961, Orbison’s house has three baths and measures either 2,679 square feet (according to public records) or 3,400 square feet (according to listing information). Features on the walled and gated property’s 0.41-acre (17,746-square-foot) lot include a one-bedroom guesthouse with one bath, a pool and views, according to public records.
Barbara didn’t make much money on the house. She purchased the property in mid-2004 for $2,546,000, according to public records. Her husband died in 1988.
Orbison owns several other properties in southern California and Nashville, including:
–A 5,493-square-foot, vacant lot on Rambla Vista in Malibu, Calif. that she has owned for almost 20 years, according to public records (and that, we believe, is the lot that once housed her home, which burned in during a brush fire in 1993);
–A 1,239-square-foot house in Nashville;
–And a 9,977-square-foot house on exactly 1 acre in Nashville that she purchased in mid-2005 for $2,465,000, according to public records.
By Bob Goldsborough at 18 July, 2009, 8:26 am
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The Citrus house is for her parent and her brother Todd and Jennifer live in the Gardner house. She is being a good daughter and sharing the wealth with the family.
Alpharetta GA. North East suburb of Atlanta and same neighborhood where Lori Lynn lives.
Didn’t American Idol mean man Simon Cowell bail out Miss Barrino’s cash strapped real estate ass?
I would so purchase Whitney Houston’s 8,022-square-foot Alpharetta, Ga home. I would also purchase her home on North Gate Road in Mendham Township, NJ…
what is it with people and big houses like if only 2 or 3 people live in there then whats the point if having 30 rooms and 20 bathrooms????!!!!
i agree with olga but why dou need a big house just to be known as the cool one u still could be cool without a big house!!!!!!!!!!!
SongWrite You know a great song when you hear one, so why can it seem so hard to write one? How is it that some songwriters can crank out classic hit after hit, while others struggle to write one single decent song?
What’s wrong with having a big house if you can afford it? Just because you live by yourself or with one other person instead of six doesn’t mean you should be in a smaller place; that doesn’t make any sense. People, by nature, need space.
If Dido comes with it I will take it!
how do you modivate a nasty room mate to help clean the house?
hey this is manuel from somerton arizona i like your songs your movies and i just to say hie and make more songs i already saw the video u did in miami and it was so colll and the ferrari and lamburging
Does anyone know the amount the apartment is worth now
“how do you modivate a nasty room mate to help clean the house?”
It would probably help if you learned how to spell motivate 1st.. No wonder they aren’t helping when they don’t have a clue what your talking about!
I loved U Miss Ross U have a beautiful House. I wish i could live in it with u. You are my idol. I listen to all your songs. I wish i have the money to buy it.. Leave the house for your grandchild. There is nothing having a big house. U work hard making movies and singing from your heart. U desire the best. keep doing your thing U are so beatiful. God Bless U
I am would like to see more of this house and also I would like to know how much taxes on this house I like more pictures I am looking to make a offer
Actually it wasn’t just two people. Nikki had three kids from a previous marriage who visited often and she had her son who lived with her, plus their had a child together. So they needed more than enough room.
Plus “they” had a child together. Forgive my spelling error