Reprogramming on the Westside
The Pacific Palisades home of late entertainment mogul Michael
King, whose company King World Productions distributed such TV hits as “Wheel of Fortune,” “Jeopardy!” and “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” is on the market for $42 million.
The Georgian-style home, designed by New York firm Ferguson & Shamamian, sits on a ridge of more than an acre with city-to-ocean views. Completed in 2005, the white-painted and ivy-covered house has steel-paned casement windows and doors, mahogany floors and five fireplaces with inlaid stone.
Interiors by White House interior designer Michael S. Smith feature grand formal rooms with hand-painted walls, inlaid mother-of-pearl and elaborate woodwork. Within the 15,642 square feet of space are formal living and dining rooms, a wood-clad library, a movie theater, a game room and a chef ’s kitchen.
The master suite, with a sitting room and his-and-hers bathrooms, has glass doors that open to a private terrace balcony. There are seven bedrooms and 10 bathrooms in all.
Mature trees encircle the grounds, which are filled with various terraces, loggias and gardens by landscape designer Deborah Nevins.
A swimming pool, infinity-edge spa and a pool house complete the setting.
King bought the house in 2002 for about $11 million, property records show. He died last year at 67.
David Offer of Berkshire Hathaway Home-Services California Properties holds the listing.
King and his brother, Roger, inherited King World Productions from their father, Charles King, in the 1970s and transformed the company into a syndication juggernaut with a range of hit shows. The Kings sold the company to CBS in 1999 for $2.5 billion in CBS stock.