Plans Underway to Teardown Whoopi Goldberg’s Longtime Los Angeles Home


Whoopi Goldberg’s longtime Los Angeles dwelling was relisted on Monday for $11.49 million as a teardown—and with strategies for a present day, 10,800-sq.-foot house. 

The actor and television personality marketed the Pacific Palisades dwelling in February 2018 for $8.8 million right after 25 many years of home, in accordance to documents with PropertyShark. It strike the marketplace once more a 12 months-and-a-half afterwards for $9.6 million, Mansion Global reported, but unsuccessful to find a consumer. 

Now, with ideas and permits for a residence “just months absent from acceptance,” the property is currently being made available for more than 16{30865861d187b3c2e200beb8a3ec9b8456840e314f1db0709bac7c430cb25d05} more than the past inquiring rate, in accordance to the listing with Ben Bacal and Lolita Bagramyan of Revel Serious Estate.


“The residence is getting bought as is with the stunning programs from Abramson Architects,” Mr. Bacal stated. 

The firm’s design and style options oversize windows and retractable partitions to capitalize on California’s indoor-outdoor life style, a number of patios—covered and uncovered—an open kitchen area and family home, a formal dining area, an office and created-in shelving in the course of, renderings clearly show. 

The household is positioned on the upper rim of the Riviera area of the community, a “coveted location” with large-profile people, he added. 

“Beverly Hills and Bel Air have had the maximum selling price per sq. foot, along with components of the Hollywood Hills and Malibu, but now everybody actually would like to be in the Riviera,” Mr. Bacal defined. “It’s a one of a kind, pleasant neighborhood with wide streets and is near to some of the very best buying in the world…prices have really absent by way of the roof.”  

The existing, Artwork Deco-design dwelling dates to the 1930s, and was created for Vicki Baum, the Austrian writer of “Grand Hotel,” a Weimar-era very best seller, Mr. Bacal claimed. The primary house boasts five en-suite bedrooms more than about 7,000 sq. ft, according to the listing. 

A lot of of the initial functions have been preserved, such as crown moldings, several fireplaces and a black-and-white checkered floor. The kitchen area has been remodeled and there is a swimming pool and a guest cottage. 


A Santa Monica, California-based mostly limited liability enterprise owns the house. Mansion World-wide could not decide who is at the rear of the LLC. 

Ms. Goldberg, 66, obtained her split as a comic in the 1980s and has worked on the phase and display ever given that, winning an Academy Award for her part in “Ghost” (1990). She’s also known for her motion pictures like “The Color Purple” (1985), centered on the book by Alice Walker, and the “Sister Act” motion pictures in the early 1990s.

She’s at present a host on the communicate demonstrate “The Look at,” despite the fact that she was suspended last week for building controversial responses on “the root causes of the Holocaust,” in accordance to The Wall Avenue Journal.