Tom Shadyac buys Sunset Strip digs from Aaron Paul
“Breaking Bad” actor Aaron Paul has unloaded his Hollywood Hills cottage for $2.2 million, and records reveal the multilevel home’s new owner is industry multi-hyphenate Tom Shadyac. Tucked away on a quiet cul-de-sac just steps off the bustling Sunset Strip, the relatively modest house, which spans less than 2,900 square feet, was acquired by Paul in 2012 for about $1.4 million and was once occupied by Brad Pitt back in his juvenescent showbiz days.
The renovated 1930s residence, which includes four bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms, sits on a knoll high above the street-level garage. A zigzagging flight of stairs climbs to the antique front door and into a traditional center-hall foyer with a wood-beamed ceiling and stone staircase. There’s a kitchen with a groin-vaulted ceiling and a full range of luxury stainless appliances; a fireplace-equipped living room; and a dining room with pictureperfect views of the downtown L.A. skyline.
Tucked discreetly into a coved space under the house lies an alfresco dining
area. A separate outdoor lounge area has a banquette, firepit and an oversize Buddha statue. More adventurous guests can explore the terra cotta-tiled rooftop deck, with its stunning city vistas.
F. Ron Smith and David Berg of Compass held the listing and also repped Shadyac.
Linkin Park’s Brad Delson Lists 90210 Digs
Linkin Park founding member Brad Delson and wife Elisa Doren are looking for a change of scenery, having re-hoisted their longtime main L.A. residence onto the market with a nearly $8 million thud. The couple has been attempting to sell the property since May, when it was first listed with a more aggressive, $8.5 million price tag.
The charming East Coast traditional is partially vine-encrusted, sequestered at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac behind tall hedges and gates, and sited within a guard-gated community in the mountains above Beverly Hills. There are six bedrooms and seven bathrooms in 5,000 square feet. Records show Delson purchased the house in early 2006 for $4.75 million, and the 1987-built structure, which was “recently updated,” per the listing, remains impeccably maintained.
The traditional center-hall floor plan offers trendy ebony black hardwood flooring, a cook’s kitchen with marble countertops, milky white custom cabinetry and top-of-the-line stainless appliances, plus an attached breakfast area. Other main floor spaces include an expansive formal living room, formal dining room and a family/billiards room with marble-surround fireplace.
On the upper level are four bedrooms — all of them en suite — including the roomy master, outfitted with a spa-style bath with built-in soaking tub. A plus-size gazebo overlooks the pool/spa area, while the grassy entertaining spaces are numerous and shaded by mature trees and towering hedges. Victoria Risko of Sotheby’s Intl. Realty holds the listing.
Dr. Phil’s Son Looks for Wild Buyer in Bevhills
A remarkably wacky house — technically owned by stalwart talk show host Dr. Phil Mcgraw and his longtime wife Robin — in the mountains above Beverly Hills recently popped up for sale with an asking price of $5.75 million. But the couple has never actually lived in this house; rather, the effusively decorated villa, purchased in 2007 for just under $5 million, has long been occupied solely by Jordan Mcgraw, their younger son, an aspiring singer who previously opened on tour for the Jonas Brothers.
Invisible from the street and privately sequestered at the end of a long driveway behind whimsical gates that appear hewn from mangled tree branches, the half-acre lot offers a roomy motor court and a threecar garage.
From outdoors, the house appears to be a rather ordinary Tuscan-style Mcmansion; inside, however, the 6,170-square-foot beige manor, which includes five bedrooms and six bathrooms, is an eye-popping hot mess of lurid colors, clashing textures and assorted decorative debauchery. There’s a soaring foyer with a staircase whose banisters appear to be covered in slithering snakes, a vaguely medieval wet bar with chairs that wouldn’t look out of place in “Lord of the Rings,” and a moody dining room with a glass-encased gun wall and an oversize anime pig. Other interior spaces are jammed in an offhanded manner with random figurines and artifacts that include a Kelly Wearstler bowl, a vintage Louis Vuitton trunk and multiple “Star Wars” action figures.
It’s not clear who’s in the market for a nearly $6 million mansion decorated in such a brazenly bizarre manner, though the listing, held by Billy Dolan of Hilton & Hyland, gently implies that a future owner may want to rip everything out and start afresh.“[the] eclectic finishes can be kept or transformed into your own vision,” according to digital marketing materials.