Thursday, July 8, 2010

Dr. Phil Finally and Officially Lists Beverly Hills House

SELLER: Dr. Phil and Robin McGraw
LOCATION: Beverly Hills, CA
PRICE: $16,500,000
SIZE: 11,036 square feet, 8 bedrooms, 7 bathrooms

YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Way back in early April of 2008, amid much speculation that Dr. Phil McGraw and his Stand By Your Man wifey Robin were on a fast train to Splitsville, Your Mama heard from no fewer than three real estate snitches who whispered in our big ear that the tee-vee psychologist–or whatever he is–had quietly floated his big Beverly Hills, CA mansion on the market as a pocket listing. A pocket listing, for all those not familiar with the term, means that the McGraw mansion was never officially on the market. However, according to Kenny Kissentell, one of Your Mama's saucier and more piquant canaries, the still married couple were quietly seeking offers in the $16-18,000,000 range.

Your Mama isn't sure if Mister and Missus McGraw fielded any offers for their Bev Hills estate but clearly they did not sell the property because now, more than two years after we first heard the real estate rumors of the pocket listing, Mister and Missus McGraw have officially heaved their hulking Mediterranean villa on the market with an asking price of $16,500,000.

Now listen chickens, in the interest of full disclosure Your Mama should say right off the bat that we're not much of a fan of Dr. Phil–who is not actually a medical doctor of any kind–nor do we care for his particular brand of tough talking psycho-babble hyperbole delivered in the most dramatic fashion possible in order to keep the television viewing audience from getting bored and flipping the channel to one of the many soap stories that plug up the airwaves during the mid-day hours. Here's our real beef puppies, we fear deep in our soul that what happens on Dr. Phil's program gets mistaken by his vast audience for actual therapy and, puppies, real therapy it is not. Perhaps we're not giving credit to his fans who may very well be able to properly discern television from therapy. None the less feel that Dr. Phil's program of "get real" advice gives the false and potentially damaging illusion that complex emotional quandaries and divisive marital dilemmas can be fixed in just 40-42 minutes, the real length of most 1 hour long shows minus the time it takes for commercials.

And too, we find it strange and creepy that Not A Medical Dr. Phil recently had his bushy beast of a 'stache shaved off–on national television–by none other than Oprah Winfrey, the woman responsible for foisting Dr. Phil onto the world. Lo-ward have mercy butter beans, does no one have any sense of decency or shame anymore? Maybe next time The Big O can take a pumice stone to his heels or maybe she'll use him as a model to illustrate how best to manscape your man's chest carpet.

Anyhoo, property records and other reports reveal that The Big O's talk television prodigy and his wife Robin purchased their Bev Hills property back in December of 2002 for around $7,500,000...in cash. While listing information for the .72 acre estate does not indicate the square footage of the McGraw manse, the tax man shows it measures 11,036 square feet and includes 8 bedrooms and 7 poopers including a master suite with sitting area, private balcony, and two lavish poopers and custom fitted dressing rooms. For what it's worth, we previously reported that the house had 9 bedrooms and 8 full and 2 half poopers but, in all honestly, our boozy-woozy brain just can't recall from where we got those numbers.

Information we received a couple of years ago from our trio of blabbermouthing birdies indicates the house includes a number of celebrity-style features like a double height rotunda entrance hall with diamond pattern stone flooring and sweeping dual staircases for making dramatic entrances (and exits), a screening room, natch, a billiards room, his and hers offices, staff quarters, and a beauty boo-teek where Dr. Phil could have his pate polished in private.

Other amenities of the completely walled and double-gated property located in what is arguably the best part of Beverly Hills include, according to listing information, a double height formal living room, formal dining room, library, family room, a colossal kitchen, and a half-circle shaped breakfast room with dizzying mirrored walls. There is also a media/music room, den, a home fitness center, covered parking for 5 cars, 3 fireplaces (in the den, library and master boo-dwar), and a detached 2 bedroom guest casita.

A wide and lavishly planted dining terrace extends off the back of the house with an outdoor fireplace and media center for staring at the boob-toob al fresco. A pathway descends to the large, rectangular shaped swimming pool that has kooky and kind of disturbing statues standing at the corners, and a raised, circular spa where Not A Medical Dr. Phil can soak away the stress of dealing with everyone else's stress on the boob-toob. What 16,500,000 smackers will not get you in the case of Dr. and Missus Phil's pile is a tennis court, which is a real shame because as fer as Your Mama is concerned 16,500,000 in Beverly Hills ought to buy a tennis court or at least a long, gated celebrity style driveway and the sort of view that will curl the toes of even the most jaded Angelino.

Where, oh where will Dr. Phil go now Your Mama hears the children asking? Well, in truth we don't know. But if Your Mama had to choose a Los Angeles location for Dr. Phil to next reside it would be an even bigger spread up in Beverly Park because Dr. Phil just seems like the sort of fellow who would get his real estate jollies off on living up in Beverly Park.

What we do know is that whomever snatches up Dr. Phil's real estate sloppy seconds will have a whole host of rich and famous neighbors including Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, Guess? founder Georges Marciano who lives in Shirley Temple's old Sunset Boulevard mansion, and right behind Dr. Phil's house sits Le Palais du Couchant, the recently completed 3-story, 36,000 square foot "French-Palladian" pile built by commercial real estate mogul Frederick C. Wehba that's currently listed at a teeth chattering $68,500,000.

photos from Hilton & Hyland listing

27 comments:

Anonymous said...

YUCK ! It looks like something in Temecula.

Anonymous said...

The outside looks like a south florida tract house, but I love the interior.
http://www.1008lexington.com/

angie said...

The 'hulking' adjective used in this article to describe the house about sums it up. It looks bulky and overblown to me from every angle, and I'm so tired of Mediterranean I could spit.

As for the good pseudo doctor, while visiting my parents I was obliged to join my mother in the media room each night after dinner to watch him dole out his daily dose of 'therapy' - and agree that his particular brand of psychodrama should only be viewed as entertainment, and only if he's your idea of entertaining. What bothered me most, is his tendency to choose sides - giving those he deems to be in the 'right' a free pass, while mercilessly targeting those he deems to be in the 'wrong'. Most of what I saw centered on what he calls the Dr. Phil 'family', a dysfunctional cast of family characters he's been treating and following for ages apparently. Just to provide a quick, entirely inappropriate example, he rewarded the clan mother with a face-lift, and informed her daughter that he was washing his hands of her forever. Is it any wonder then, that this family who literally grew up with him on TV, is worse off than ever? Puh-leeze.

Much appreciated Mama :)

Anonymous said...

What a predictable, Santa Clarita-esque monstrosity. I love the statues by the pool, which just fill out the tackiness theme. Location is the only thing going for this thing.
Also, I'm really surprised they're still together. Robin has had so much work done, she's barely recognizable as a woman (and, it goes without saying, obviously has plenty of self-esteem issues of her own that a psychologist has yet to work out). She also said on a show that she'd never let him do Dancing with the Stars, becuase she wasn't okay with him dancing with a cute younger woman, even if she's a professional. That smells of either (a) lack of trust or (b) jealousy. Either way, if my girlfriend made that statement, I'd take it as a sign that our relationship was over.

humanseed said...

That is one of the most revolting houses I've seen. The location and lot size are amazing though.

Anonymous said...

Everything about this place is revolting. I'd take Britney Spears house of horrors up in the Summit over this thing.

Village said...

I saw a tour of their house on the not a doctor show, YEARS ago, and if memory serves me correctly, they have a fully functioning fountain 8-10 high in the entrance foy-yea, as they say in Texas.

IrvineHousingBlogFan said...

Oh how I wish Mama would include mortgage information!

Jeannified said...

Meh...I like it but I live in the burbs, too! Wonder what's gonna happen to the good (not) doctor. Hmmm...

lil' gay boy said...

Once again the real estate copy (and photos) seem, like the good Non-Doctor himself, quite deceiving; a monstrous pile of lavish vulgarity that infests a not-too-shabby sized lot with total disregard for any enhancements that would augment its siting.

The other three houses on this block all manage, with greater subtlety, to make the most of their siting.

Instead we get a tumorous paean to one man's grandiose ego; perhaps the size belies another, um, shortcoming?

Verification word: corpulent

Go figure.

Anonymous said...

Hmmm... I have a friend who lives very close to this house and I could have sworn they told me Dr. Phil moved out a couple of years ago. I wonder if the house has sat unoccupied all of this time or if he never moved.

I also know a couple of people who had the misfortune to work on his show and he is, from all accounts, a first rate assh*le. It's sad anyone watches his BS.

Anonymous said...

Nice garden

Anonymous said...

The inside of this house is gawdy and WAYYYYYYYYY over the top. This is NOT a home.

luke220 said...

Isn't Helen Hunt next door?

Anonymous said...

I just threw up in my mouth. This is what you get when Texas Trash makes a boatload of money.
Horrors.

Sal Monella said...

How's that buying and selling big ugly houses thing working for ya?

Suburban Princess said...

Is a medical doctor the only doctor? Isn't he a doctor of psychology? I know lots of phds who are doctors but not medical doctors.

lilkunta said...

QUOTE : "his particular brand of tough talking psycho-babble hyperbole ....Here's our real beef puppies, we fear deep in our soul that what happens on Dr. Phil's program gets mistaken by his vast audience for actual therapy and, puppies, real therapy it is not. Perhaps we're not giving credit to his fans who may very well be able to properly discern television from therapy. "
THANK YOU MAMA! I am so glad you said this. To this day I dont know why the hell oprah gave him a show? Oprah was sexually abused & phil is a sexual abuser: he raped one of his patients.

also, did you know he isnt a medical dr? He is a phd dr, he wrote his thesis about rheumatoid arthritis! he did no psych course or training!

phil was a jury stacker(that is how he got oprah off that texas beef defamation sit) & now he thinks he is a therapist? 4 all the good opra has done this isa very very very bad thing she did. DONT LISTEN TO HIM PEOPLE!

Anonymous said...

Looks REAL bad inside. A over done Las Vegas hotel suite.
Did Liberace come back from the dead to decorate the inside?

And the plantings around the house are also very poor and cheap. You think they could afford to plant something better than crappy red impatiens. Did they get the plants at Target or Lowes?

angie said...

Suburban Princess, there are psychologists, and then there are psychologists. Dr. McGraw has a rather checkered past for someone who aspired to operating as a licensed professional. He had run-ins with several faculty members while in college studying his way up the clinical psychology ladder. After earning his PhD. and becoming licensed, The Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists determined that McGraw had hired a former patient for "part-time temporary employment". Specifically the Board cited "a possible failure to provide proper separation between termination of therapy and the initiation of employment" and issued a letter of reprimand and imposed administrative penalties. It has also been reported that McGraw and his father seldom speak.

McGraw has subsequently ceased the practice of psychology, electing to retire his license in 2006. McGraw himself said that he has made it "very clear" that his current work does not involve the practice of psychology. The California Board of Psychology determined in 2002 that he did not require a license because his show involves "entertainment" rather than psychology.

All of the above information is culled from his Wikipedia article.

Monica Der -Beverly Hills Realtor said...

There is too much foliage on this property and it really hurts the curb appeal. But many celebrities enjoy putting foliage on their property for added privacy.

angie said...

Suburban Princess, there are psychologists, and then there are psychologists. Dr. McGraw has a rather checkered past for someone who aspired to operating as a licensed professional. He had run-ins with several faculty members while in college studying his way up the clinical psychology ladder. After earning his PhD. and becoming licensed, The Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists determined that McGraw had hired a former patient for "part-time temporary employment". Specifically the Board cited "a possible failure to provide proper separation between termination of therapy and the initiation of employment" and issued a letter of reprimand and imposed administrative penalties. It has also been reported that McGraw and his father seldom speak.

McGraw has subsequently ceased the practice of psychology, electing to retire his license in 2006. McGraw himself said that he has made it "very clear" that his current work does not involve the practice of psychology. The California Board of Psychology determined in 2002 that he did not require a license because his show involves "entertainment" rather than psychology.

All of the above information is culled from his Wikipedia article.

Anonymous said...

16 million smackers for an attached garage in the front of the house? Really? Ugh.

xoxo LaLu

Anonymous said...

A person is allowed to be called a Psychologist only if he/she has earned a PhD in psychology, thus Dr. Phil.
However, his license as well as his father's, was suspended years ago due to a violation of ethics. The Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists had no problem with his title of "Dr." since he became famous (thanks to Oprah). Had any other licensed psychologist been accused and found guilty of the same ethics violations they would have never been granted the same courtesy. See
http://www.zimbio.com/Phil+McGraw/articles/NUEc9ov71OY/Dr+Phil+is+a+monster

Dr Phil Lawsuit said...

Dr. Phil facing another lawsuit... this time bc his dog attacked and seriously injured his former best friend. He can buy this $30 mln dollar house but wouldn't even help pay for her medical bills

Anonymous said...

Does anyone know if I'd be able to get floor plans for this house. Would really appreciate it

Anonymous said...

Talk about Beverly hillbillies. . Robin needs to get a job or take take care of grand kids. Phil can walk off the stage all by himself by now. Can we find a dr that can give advice instead of sending people to get advice. And wg
Here y'all dosent exist. I thought his dad was a drunk how did he come up with all the cute phrases. Humm