Mobster Bugsy Siegel built a 10,500 square feet Georgian styled mansion in the Holmby Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles for his family in 1938 and resided there until him and his wife divorced in 1946. In the house they hosted glamorous parties which were attended by Hollywood stars such as James Stewart, Clark Gable, Cary Grant and many others.
Film producer, director, writer and actor Bud Yorkin used to live here with his wife, actress Cynthia Sikes.
He directed and produced the innovative 1958 TV special "An Evening With Fred Astaire", which won nine Emmy Awards. In 1963, he teamed up with Norman Lear to form Tandem Productions, which at first produced several films in the 1960s to 1971 with such major sudios like United Artists and Warner Bros., and later produced many of the decade's hit sitcoms, such as "All in the Family", "Maude", "Good Times", and "Sanford and Son" in the 1970s.
Yorkin and Sikes put the house on the market in 2010 for $49.5 Million and sold it in 2012 to hedge fund mogul Jon Brooks and his wife, Shanna for $17.5 Million. They demolished the house and built a modern mansion on the premises.
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