Singer Rachel Sweet lists mansion in Los Angeles' Los Feliz area for $9.995M that Madonna, Jenna Elfman and Katey Sagal previously have owned
Singer Rachel Sweet has placed her 6,205-square-foot mansion in Los Angeles’ Los Feliz area on the market for $9,995,000. In addition to being designed by architect Wallace Neff, the mansion has a tremendous recent celebrity provenance, having previously been owned by Madonna, Jenna Elfman and Katey Sagal, making it one of the most celebrity-intensive mansions (at least, recently speaking) around.
In a Big Time Listings exclusive, we can report on Sweet’s listing of the house, which is known as Los Pavoreales. The house hit the MLS on July 6.
Built in 1926, the five-bedroom house has five and a half baths, a master bedroom with a period bathroom, two junior bedroom suites and a family room, according to public records and listing information. Outdoor features on the 1.81-acre property include rolling lawns, a playhouse, an ascending garden with spectacular city views, a large motor court, a long private drive, and a detached guest house with two bedrooms, two baths and a kitchen, according to public records and listing information.
Obviously, Sweet is not as well known as the mansion’s prior owners. Records show that Sweet and her writer-producer husband, Tom Palmer, purchased the house in 2005 from Sagal for $5,510,000, and not for the hand-waving/let’s-punt-with-an-average-multiple-weighted-guess “close to its $5.9-million asking price” that the Los Angeles Times’ Ruth Ryon had reported in 2005. Sagal had purchased the house in 2004 from Elfman for $4,700,000, and Elfman had purchased it from Madonna (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/04/25/REGGJ6A6I81.DTL) in 2000 for about $4 million, according to public records and news accounts. Madonna appears to have purchased the house in 1995.
What other houses can match this one for past and current celebrity ownership? We can only think of two:
1) the house at 4875 Louise Avenue in Los Angeles’ Encino area, which we have written about many times and which Sagal herself had owned prior to purchasing Los Pavoreales in Los Feliz. Other owners/residents of the house at 4875 Louise Avenue have included Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards, Kirstie Alley, Al Jolson, Ruby Keeler and Don Ameche;
and 2) the house in Los Angeles’ Los Feliz area that Natalie Portman recently purchased and that Dermot Mulroney and Catherine Keener had purchased from Chick Corea. Now-deceased musician Leroi Moore had owned the house later on as well.
We have no idea where Sweet and Palmer are off to. We will keep you posted on if the Sweet mansion in Los Feliz sells and if so, for how much. Stay tuned.
By Bob Goldsborough at 8 July, 2009, 11:30 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