Wednesday, August 7, 2013

South Park's Trey Parker Buys Big Brentwood Digs

BUYER: Trey Parker
LOCATION: Los Angeles, CA
PRICE: $13,288,255
SIZE: 10,000-ish square feet, 7 bedrooms, 11.5 bathrooms

YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Thanks to a covert communique from real estate yenta Yolanda Yakketyyak we've learned that Showbiz bad boy Trey Parker quietly splashed out nearly fourteen million clams in early July 2013 on a .79 acre mini-estate in L.A.'s quietly tony and much coveted Brentwood Park nabe.

Along with his b.f.f. creative partner, Matt Stone, Mister Parker is, of course, one of the co-creators of the taboo-busting animated supernova South Park. In addition writing and directing, Mister Parker voices for South Park including those of Eric Cartman, Ned Gerblansky, and God. By Your Mama's count Mister Parker has won four of the eleven Emmys for which he's been nominated for South Park and was nominated for a Academy Award (Best Music, Original Song) in 1999 for the South Park movie Bigger, Longer & Uncut. In 2011, he took home a Tony (Best Musical Direction) for the wildly successful and gleefully subversive Broadway musical The Book of Mormon.

Mister Parker's purchase of the very grown up 7 bedroom and 11.5 bathroom Spanish Colonial mansion coincides and may or may not have something to do with the eminent birth of the child he's about to have with his unfortunately named live-in gal pal, (former) stripper Boogie Tillmon. Forty seconds of research turned up some wickedly salacious things floating around on the internets about both Mister Parker and Miss Tillmon but, honestly, butter beans, they're not relevant to the real estate matter at hand and are so scandalous and possibly libelous we dare not repeat them. Anyhoo...

Property records and marketing materials show the ten year old Thomas Callaway-designed mansion on a plum street in Brentwood was custom built in 2002 by veteran music executive Richard Foos, the former head of Rhino Records, and his wife, Shari. Good ol' Yolanda Yakketyyak told Your Mama that for that last few years it had been leased by another bigwig music executive, Lucien Grainge, the Chairman of Universal Music, who moved on to his own giant mansion on a particularly posh street in Pacific Palisades that he and his wife, Caroline, purchased last November for $13,000,000.

Although it's not called out in listing details from the time of the sale—and Your Mama certainly can't verify the figures—the L.A. County Tax Man shows the main manse measures 9,747 square feet with another 992 square feet in the two-room poolside guest house.

Listing details show the primary entertaining spaces include an impress-the-guests style double-height foyer/stair hall ringed by a second floor gallery, formal living and dining rooms, library, office, and a media/music room. Family quarters include a top-grade center island kitchen with impressive field stone back splashes, an adjoining breakfast room with French doors, and an adjacent family room. For what Your Mama can tell from listing photographs there's also a large den on the upper level with vaulted and beamed ceiling and somewhere there's a game room with built-in bar and Old Timey knotty pine paneling.

The master suite is particularly sweet and comprises a separate sitting room with fireplace, a bedroom with sitting area and fireplace, a sizable (if entirely beige) sky-lit bathroom, and a deep and wide covered veranda that looks beyond the backyard towards the Santa Monica Mountains. A curved, exterior staircase provides convenient access to the backyard.

A columned loggia along the back of the house extends the living space to the outdoor areas that include a large terrace, built-in barbecue, a large flat lawn and, at the rear of the mostly flat property, a heated swimming pool with inset spa. The nearby pool house/guest house has a narrow wrap around porch, a large living room with tile floor and fireplace, bedroom, and bathroom.

Some of the house's extra-added features and amenities include a whole-house sound system, solar heating, retractable push-button walls on the loggia, hand-painted tiles, stenciled wood beams and articulated wood ceilings, extensive built-in cabinetry, and at least seven wood burning fireplaces.

A thorough perusal of property records reveal Mister Parker maintains baller sized property portfolio that includes (but is hardly limited to) a couple of neighboring residences above Laurel Canyon in the Hollywood Hills that were bought in two separate transactions in July and November 2002 for a combined $2,165,000.

Mister Parker also keeps: a house on the Wailua River in Kapaa, Kauai, HI he purchased in June 1999 for $900,000, a high floor condo at the swanky Continental Place complex in downtown Seattle's Belltown nabe that he picked up in May 2004 for $850,000, and a custom-constructed ski chalet with over 7,000 square feet plus a fully fitted and kitted Japanese tea house in Steamboat Springs, CO. Property records show Mister Parker acquired up the 1.92 acre Steamboat Springs property in September 2002 for $1,425,000 and scooped up an adjacent 1.22 acre vacant parcel in July 2011 for $1.575. We also find evidence that Mister Parker shelled out $4,050,000 in May 2011 for a class icseven (room apartment) at high-brow pre-war building on W. 57th Street in New York City.

Mister Parker's property portfolio appears to also contain numerous less impressive but hardly inexpensive residential properties in Fort Collins and Denver (CO) as well as Venice, Marina Del Rey, and Pacific Palisades, many of which were probably purchased for staff, family and/or investment purposes.

listing photos: Prudential California 

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

I have admired that house for years - I think it is absolutely gorgeous. Incredibly luxurious but not over the top, and very livable. Plus on a great street to boot. I am jealous.

Anonymous said...

Boker tov Mama and Kinderlach:

The Rabbi is experiencing overall decorative ambivalence regarding the Parker-Tillmon house. She is pleased by the Mediterranean landscape of olive and cypress trees, agapanthuses, and iceberg roses, yet is multi-culturally perplexed with the Chinese lions guarding the entrance to the Spanish colonial home. French doors and wonderful iron chandeliers provide beneficent light, while ersatz-beamed ceilings induce dizzying vertigo. Hardwood floors could be authentically replaced by tile, while knotty-pine paneling is reminiscent of a mid-century, basement rumpus room.

Once again, the Rabbi is religiously compelled to warn the Kinderlach concerning the feng shui hazard of placing a maritial bed below a structural bisecting beam, which in time will bisect the relationship and terminate the marriage. Furthermore, Staging Lady's propped mirrors and propped art are seismic disasters waiting to occur in earthquake-prone California.

The Rabbi wishes to inform Mama and the Kinderlach she is not about to Google Boogie Tillmon while at work, as Little Davey Shapiro-Schwartz is due at any moment for his Bar Mitzvah lesson. Finally, the Rabbi expresses bemusement concerning Mama's early rising today.

Rabbi Hedda LaCasa

lil' gay boy said...

I'm with the Rabbi decor-wise -- not feeling it at all.

Too many beams, too many barrel vaults, not enough color and the spread next door puts it to shame.

More power to Parker & bff for cashing in on the dumbing down of America -- I will admit to the guilty pleasure of laughing out loud at some of the outrageous line-crossing on South Park, but the horde of other cartoons of its ilk it engendered make me want to adopt a Canadian accent when I travel abroad...

Anonymous said...

No shortages of fireplaces. I count six and I bet there are more.

Anonymous said...

The backyard is tolerable, but the rest is a typical old California mishmashmish of pseudo Spanish and pseudo Mexican and God knows what else. I'd hate to live there.

Anonymous said...

Anonymouse 3:51pm

Yeah, you'd hate to live there cause your crappy 1 bedroom is so luxurious. Please gurl, pulllleeezzzz....

Anonymous said...

I really like this house. The interior is very white but I like the peaceful feeling it gives off.

Anonymous said...

The Rabbi must also be mad because the beams are such bad feng shui. There is something kabbalistically wrong with the house too, probably. Those Chinese lions really are a WT moment...

luke220 said...

I'd love to get Kathryn Ireland in there to warm it up a bit- then I'd love it even more.

Anonymous said...

$13.2 million for this, really?

Anonymous said...

I'm not digging the brown ceilings and the brown ceiling beams everywhere. They completely overwhelm each picture. But it might feel different in real life.

Also, I keep seeing lawns in pictures of LA houses and mostly they look awful. Apparently it doesn't work that well out there regardless of how much water is being throwing on it, but nonetheless people are determined. . .

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