Jayne Mansfield's Pink Palace
| Jayne Mansfield's Pink Palace | |
|---|---|
 Gate and partial view of Mansfield's former mansion, the Pink Palace (photographed 1997) | |
| General information | |
| Address | 10100 Sunset Boulevard |
| Town or city | Holmby Hills, Los Angeles |
| Coordinates | 34°4′49.26″N 118°25′34.71″W / 34.0803500°N 118.4263083°WCoordinates: 34°4′49.26″N 118°25′34.71″W / 34.0803500°N 118.4263083°W |
| Demolished | 2002 |
Jayne Mansfield's Pink Palace was a mansion built by the actress as a "pink landmark".[1]
History
In November 1957, shortly before her marriage to Mickey Hargitay, Mansfield bought a 40-room Mediterranean-style mansion formerly owned by Rudy Vallée at 10100 Sunset Boulevard in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles.[2] Much of the investment to buy the house came from the $81,340 ($685,318 in 2016 dollars[3]) she inherited from her maternal grandfather Elmer Palmer.[4][5] Mansfield had the house painted pink, with cupids surrounded by pink fluorescent lights, pink furs in the bathrooms, a pink heart-shaped bathtub, and a fountain spurting pink champagne, and then dubbed it the "Pink Palace". Hargitay, a plumber and carpenter before getting into bodybuilding, built a pink heart-shaped swimming pool. Mansfield decorated the Pink Palace by writing to furniture and building suppliers requesting free samples. She received over $150,000 ($1,263,803 in 2016 dollars[3]) in free merchandise, paying only $76,000 ($640,327 in 2016 dollars[3]) for the mansion itself[6] It was still a large sum, when the average cost of a house at the time was under $7,500 ($63,190 in 2016 dollars[3]).[7]
The Pink Palace was sold and its subsequent owners have included Ringo Starr, Cass Elliot and Engelbert Humperdinck.[8] In 2002, Humperdinck sold it to developers, and the house was demolished in November of that year.
References
- Strait, Raymond (1992). Here They Are Jayne Mansfield. New York: S.P.I. Books. ISBN 978-1-56171-146-8.
- Faris, Jocelyn (November 1994). Jayne Mansfield: A Bio-Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-28544-8.
Notes
- ↑ Strait 1992, p. 93
- ↑ Marc Wanamaker, Westwood, Arcadia Publishing, 2010 , p. 55
- 1 2 3 4 Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Retrieved November 10, 2015.
- ↑ Faris 1994, p. 7
- ↑ Michael Mundy, "Limit: The Game is Back with Warring Realtors", Los Angeles Magazine, January 1998
- ↑ The Pink Palace
- ↑ Census of Housing, U.S. Census Bureau.
- ↑ Web bio from fansite.