Thursday, November 21, 2013

Celebrity Rental: Eric Gold and Marcy Kaplan

In support of and in property gossip solidarity with the hardworking kids at Curbed and their annual "Renter's Week," Your Mama thought we'd have a brief look-see at a handful of homes in the sensationally scenic, punishingly pricey, and celeb-saturated seaside community of Malibu, CA, that are currently available for rent and owned by a high profile Tinseltowner...

Television, movie, and musical producer—and talent manager, Eric Gold (Scary Movie, The Wayans Brothers) and actress/writer/producer Marcy Kaplan (The Pre Nup) have their late 1960's Buff & Hensman-designed ocean front spread on sandy La Costa beach up for rent at $75,000 per month.*

Current listing information and other online resources show the 4,300 square foot house was once owned by music legend Berry Gordy and now has casual yet ever-so-costly and smoothly sophisticated interior day-core by L.A.-based lady decorators Elizabeth Barondes and Kelly Morris.

A spacious, open-plan living area has extra-wide plank pale yellow-blond wood floors, a fireplace, a library nook (with backgammon table), and, tucked up behind the dining area, a marble-countered galley kitchen. Glass panels slip into the walls to merge the indoor living area with a glass-railed sea- and beach-view deck for sunbathers, ciggy and doobie smokers, gin and tonic enjoyer, sunset watcher, and star-gazers.

The house claims 60 feet of prime beach frontage and there are three bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms in the main house, one the well-appointed master, another a children's room with trundle-equipped bunk beds that sleep six. A detached casita that opens off the front courtyard between the house and garage offers another bedroom and bathroom perfectly suite to fornicating and/or flatulent house guests.

Property records indicate Miz Kaplan and Mister Gold purchased their Malibu getaway for exactly $9,000,000 in November of 2009 and their in-town residence, a 9,200+ square foot Gothic Tudor-style mansion behind security gates and privacy hedges in the flats of Beverly Hills, in May 2006 for $8.8 million.

*Listing details ask for interested parties to ring the real estate agent for winter pricing, which Your Mama imagines could be somewhat less than $75,000 per month but what do we really know, right?

listing photos: Coldwell Banker Previews

4 comments:

Sandpiper said...


So refreshing to see this meticulously maintained vintage beach house. I adore everything about it, inside and out. It's what living on the beach is all about.



lil' gay boy said...

Not bad at all, but I do have a particular pet peeve about the aqua/light blue accents...

...it just seems to me a little too precious to try and use a shade (which almost never matches) to allude to that which is just outside the window...

Anonymous said...

I love this!

Sandra said...

Rent at $75,000 per month??? Incredible! In general the house is very good. I like the neutral light colors used in the rooms, but I’d also add there some bright accents to make it look more vivid. The blue colors are so nice like the color of the wave! The living room with a great view is a real paradise facing the Pacific, where you can relax. Bringing the beach indoors poses much inspiration and many aesthetic opportunities.