Las Vegas Review-Journal (Sunday)

TIMELINE

Some highlights in the history of the Liberace Mansion

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1962: The home at 4982 Shirley St. is built.

Aug. 2, 1974: Liberace, the flamboyant pianist and Las Vegas headliner, buys the property.

Feb. 4, 1987: Liberace dies of what a coroner ruled as

AIDS-related pneumonia at his home in Palm Springs, California.

May 18, 1988: The mansion

becomes the property of the Liberace Foundation, a nonprofit organizati­on founded in 1976 that

awarded scholarshi­ps and grants to performing arts students.

Feb. 14, 1989: The home is purchased by a married couple, T. Vance Turner and Jan L. Turner

Oct. 5, 2006: The Turners sell the home for $3.7 million to Terrance Lee Dzvonick.

Feb. 5, 2010: JPMorgan Chase Bank forecloses.

Aug.

23, 2013: Businessma­n Martyn Ravenhill purchases the home for just over $500,000 and spends several years renovating it to appear as it did when Liberace owned it.

March 2016: The mansion is designated the first Clark County Historic Landmark.

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