Town or city Holmby Hills | Demolished 2002 | |
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Similar Universal Studios Hollywood, Falcon Lair, Owlwood Estate, Hollywood Melrose Hotel, Hollywood Forever Cemetery | ||
Jayne Mansfield's Pink Palace was a mansion built by the actress as a "pink landmark".
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Map of Jayne Mansfield's Pink Palace, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
History
In November 1957, shortly before her marriage to Mickey Hargitay, Mansfield bought a 40-room Mediterranean-style mansion formerly owned by Rudy Vallée at 10100 Sunset Boulevard in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles. Much of the investment to buy the house came from the $81,340 ($693,607 in 2016 dollars) she inherited from her maternal grandfather Elmer Palmer. Mansfield had the house painted pink, with cupids surrounded by pink fluorescent lights, pink furs in the bathrooms, a pink heart-shaped bathtub, and a fountain spurting pink champagne, and then dubbed it the "Pink Palace". Hargitay, a plumber and carpenter before getting into bodybuilding, built a pink heart-shaped swimming pool. Mansfield decorated the Pink Palace by writing to furniture and building suppliers requesting free samples. She received over $150,000 ($1,279,088 in 2016 dollars) in free merchandise, paying only $76,000 ($648,071 in 2016 dollars) for the mansion itself. It was still a large sum, when the average cost of a house at the time was under $7,500 ($63,954 in 2016 dollars).
The Pink Palace was sold and its subsequent owners have included Ringo Starr, Cass Elliot and Engelbert Humperdinck. In 2002, Humperdinck sold it to developers, and the house was demolished in November of that year.