The one-time Bel Air home of country crooner Kenny Rogers, known as Liongate, has just sold for $50 million. According to Variety, the mysterious buyer who also looked at several of the top estates in L.A. is rivet manufacturing tycoon Jim Randall. The huge, still-under-construction estate was listed about a year ago for $65 million, but was taken off the market “to allow construction on the guesthouse to finish.”
Now, the multi-story and multi-winged mansion has a total of 11 bedrooms, 17 bathrooms and seven fireplaces throughout the main house and guesthouse. This mansion which sits on almost two acres, includes such outrageous facilities as a 12-seat theater, a glass elevator in the backyard that connects to the tennis courts, a 3,000-square-foot master suite, and parking for 25 cars.
The original smaller house that stood on the Liongate property, built in 1938, was designed by influential and theatrically named architect Paul Revere Williams. When Kenny Rogers purchased it in 1979, he added the carved stone lions that stand on either side of the driveway gates and dubbed the place Liongate. The Europeans who just sold the property bought it back in 2010 for $12.2 million.
