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It has been on and off the market for years. And now the mansion Michael Jackson was renting for $100,000-a-month when he died has been put up for sale once again. The house, which has seven bedrooms, 13 bathrooms and a seven-car garage all sprawled over 17,200 square feet comes with an asking price of $23.9million.
It was listed for a higher price of $29million when it was put on the market in August 2010. However it is understood to have remained empty since the superstar’s death in June 2009. Despite this it may be lived in soon as it has reported by TMZ that a ‘major celebrity’ is due to look around the property tomorrow.
And the website also alleges that the realtor will only show the property to people who are pre-qualified, which means it has been verified that they have enough money to purchase the pricey home. As well as the expansive grounds and spacious rooms, the mansion boasts a movie theatre and swimming pool.
Mansion: The property is on the market for a cool $23.9million
Huge grounds: The property is sprawled over 17,200 square feet of land
The 50-year-old singer died of a Propofol overdose in June 2009 in the house in Holmby Hills, which is in upmarket Bel Air, Los Angeles.
The asking price for the house, which is owned by Ed Hardy CEO Hubert Guez, has been slashed several times
It was put up for sale back in 2008 for a whopping $38million.
After Guez initially tried to rent the property for $300,000 a month, and failed, he decided to put the house up for sale at the reduced price to offload it.
Amenities: The mansion also boasts a vintage style movie theatre
For sale: The Bel Air home has been on and off the market for years
Jackson had rented the house from Guez while he rehearsed for ‘This is It’ at the Staples Centre in downtown Los Angeles.
He had been living there with his three children, Prince Michael, 13, Paris, 12, and Blanket, eight.
The superstar’s final concert tour which he referred to as his ‘final curtain call’ and was due to start at London’s O2 arena only weeks after the singer died.
Lots of room: The house has seven bedrooms and 13 bathrooms
Empty: The house is understood to have not been lived in since the singer’s death in June 2009
On June 25th 2009 paramedics were called to the house on Carolwood Drive after Michael had been found in bed and unresponsive.
He was taken to the UCLA medical centre where attempts to resuscitate him failed and he was pronounced dead.
For more information on the property visit Zillow.com.
Showing interest: It has been reported that a ‘major celebrity’ is due to look around the property
Falling in price: The property was listed at $29million in 2010 but the asking price has dropped more than $5million
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by Anthony DeMarco at forbes.com
Swiss luxury watch brand Hublot unveiled a diamond-covered $5 million timepiece Wednesday at Baselworld—the world’s largest and most important watch and jewelry fair, in Basel, Switzerland. The company released professionally photographed images of the timepiece Friday.
The watch is covered with 1,282 diamonds, including six square cut stones that weigh more than three carats each. Jean-Claude Biver, Hublot president, said it will be difficult to make a more expensive timepiece because of the size limitations on the surface of a watch, according to media reports.
The company said in a statement that “a completely different approach was used for its creation.” Normally, the design and technical characteristics of a haute joaillerie piece are created to match the gemstones that were selected. For the making of this timepiece, the diamond cutters started with a design and then found the diamonds that best matched the construction of the case, dial and bracelet.
“Cutters and setters then employed all of their expertise to resize them to ensure a perfect fit,” Hublot said.
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by Vanessa Friedman at FT.com
Q: When is a hand bag not just a handbag ?
A: When it is also a piece of high jewellery and a sculptural object.
Such is the case, anyway, with Hermès’s second foray into haute bijouterie (as opposed to haute joaillerie — the former starts with outrageous designs, the latter with mega stones). Their jeweller and shoe maestro Pierre Hardy created four different mini-handbags, in part inspired by the brand’s iconic handbags, using gold and a LOT of precious stones. They are each functionally a “bracelet” and they actually work as (very small) handbags.In theory, anyway.
It seems to me the idea of anyone actually carrying a handbag worth €1.5m and made of intertwining chains covered in 11,000 diamonds, or a rose gold version of the Kelly bag with crocodile scales and 1,160 diamonds is a little nuts, and I mentioned this to Patrick Thomas, the CEO of the brand. He laughed.
The crocodile skin and diamond Hermès bag (photo by Dan Tobin Smith)
“We are a little crazy here,” he said.
Then I asked Mr Hardy whom he thought would buy the handbags. “I have no idea,” he announced. He seemed to think this was very funny. “But maybe they will have two bodyguards!”
I have no doubt the bags will be bought — if recent history proves anything, it’s that the crazier and more extravagant the luxury object, the more there’s a market for it — but it was also nice, I have to say, to hear a brand talk about their products without announcing they were planned for “the Asian market” or “the American market”, or any other sort of highly researched demographic. Hermès had made the bags, it seems, because the design idea was very Hermès and because they wanted to see if they could (it took two years to develop and they can only make three versions of each).
The Louis Vuitton bag (photo by Vanessa Friedman)
As it happens this is not the first time a brand has unveiled a high jewellery handbag. Louis Vuitton’s high jewellery launch in January featured a round ball of a handbag with the LV monogram picked out in an eye-boggling number of brown and white diamonds. (Jewellery has become such an important extension for the brand that they are opening their first stand-alone jewellery store on Place Vendôme in Paris this spring.
I had the same reaction then I had to the Hermès bags: giggling in disbelief. “No!” I said. “Yes!” said the LV jewellery folks, delighted. They met my disbelief with the same equanimity as the Hermès execs: “make it and they will buy” pretty much sums up their position.
I guess you can sort of see the equation:
handbags (enormously popular luxury accessory) x fine jewellery (super-exclusive one-off design with commodity investment potential) = must-have object
So that makes two examples of this crazy idea. One more, and we’ll have a trend on our hands. Or our arms, to be exact.
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