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Michael Jackson’s former Las Vegas home fetches $3.1 million
Courtesy Coldwell Banker Premier Realty
This home at 2785 S. Monte Cristo, where Michael Jackson lived in 2008, fetched a price of $3.1 million after it was taken back by the lender in lieu of it going through foreclosure.
Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010 | 9:30 a.m.
2785 S. Monte Cristo
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A 16,400-square-foot home where Michael Jackson resided for six months in late 2007 and early 2008 has sold for $3.1 million.
Jackson rented the home at 2785 S. Monte Cristo, which is southeast of the intersection of Buffalo Drive and Sahara Avenue.
The home was ultimately taken back by the lender, Eastern Savings Bank, in lieu of it going through foreclosure with the previous owner, said Carolyn Mullany, a Realtor with Coldwell Banker Premier.
An offer was made on the property Friday and the sale was closed and recorded Tuesday, she said. A California couple, a doctor and a lawyer with property holdings in Asia, acquired the home by paying cash, she said.
The estate sits on one acre. It is gated and has 8-foot walls surrounding it.
The home features seven bedroom suites, three office suites, an elevator, large formal rooms for entertainment, a theater room and orchestra loft.
The master bedroom measures 2,000 square feet with a large covered patio, his and her closets, a 10-head shower and Jacuzzi tub, Mullany said. The master bedroom also has a secret exit to a rooftop deck designed for sun bathing.
The fitness room features a dance floor and dry sauna.
It also has basketball and tennis courts.
Michael Jackson’s use of the home generated a lot of interest and calls about the property, Mullany said.
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I've been in it recently. It does NOT have "seven bedroom suites" unless you count the two sharing a bath + the "au pair quarters." With master bedroom suite there are only four.
Hope the new owners clean the pool filter first thing. It's definitely set up for some grand parties.
I wanted to see what the kitchen looked like! And closet space!! How much is there for $3.1 million?
Just another big waste of space, energy, water, and taxpayer bailout money to whichever bank forclosed on it. Unimpressive, and who cares if Michael Jackson lived there?
Det_Munch -- main kitchen was OK but not real special. A nice eating area with a huge lazy susan attached to the main counter but not where one could serve directly off the counter. I live and work in a smaller space than the master suite's main closet.
environprotector -- what "taxpayer bailout money"?
I bet it's value half's in 2 years! Anyone buying now will be under water for years before we see any increases! Property ownership is the bedrock of a free society and Obama and crew are doing everything possible to destroy the private ownership of real estate!
Whatever Tom, rofl...
Hmmmm... Who is Michael Jackson? There are those of us who don't give a rat's you know what about bumbling idiots like him.
"Who is Michael Jackson?"
TheKash -- the little kid screaming in the background of all those Jackson 5 songs back in the day.
Who cares if Michael jackson lived in this house and why would people want to buy it just because he'd lived in it in 2007. Where did he live the rest of 2008 then? Killer B you are crazy to mention that ugly seeking 15 minutes fame with no proof of 'phonecalls' she claims. With a face like that no no. More like a Tyra Banks or his fantasy lookalike Tyra has been engaged to weathy investor. Thing is Tyra is a good 6ft 1 tall. How tall is Michael for him to want a woman that tall? This house is not as good as the other ones he rented where he passed.
You know O2andH2o you are right on that. I thought that as well. A lot of women love Michael Jackson. Michael was flash and loved the showbiz type. He was over the top how he lived and would have wanted a trophy woman. The ones other guys cant have. He never spent a moment with Rowe in a bed and I wonder what a natural cjild with Rowe would have looked like. But he had fatasies. I see from his videos Michael was always looking up instead of down whenever he was looking around for an attractive woman in the last years of his life. So Tyra and curvy beyonce not a surprise for man but 6 ft 1 is tall. I dont know why anyone believed that lying fantasist susan though she claimed he fancied those sort of women in his last years. If a guy wanted a woman he'd tell her within a week and not 11 years. She was just an acquaintance who stated concorting stories. Its obvious from how he lived he was very much the flash type. Flash cars, flash clothes, flash houses, so to complete the acceessory would have been what his fantasy woman probably in showbiz like him. He loved fame, and his first mariage to elvis's daughter because he was Elvis. true in his last years he may have developed a penchant for the coloured type, a fired nanny who returned after he died,unnavailable 37 year old 6ft 1 Tyra he fancied or curvy B was proof. I dont believe susan was told any of the things she claimed because there is no proof, noone to say I was there and its true. Its always a phonecall which may never have happened. The cook can claim he was phoned by Michael jackson. Its always a 'phonecall'. Never an email from him 'I sent an email' noone knows if its true. She went to many papers and news peddling lies. Why didnt Michael ever come out in his lifetime and say I know such a person? O2andH2O everyone knows he was so committed to what he was to do at London O2 which meant a lot to him just before his death. I even saw a photo of the house he was to stay for 1 year in Chiselhurst Kent rented for an eye watering 1million british pounds. With his covered nose and eating little, makes me wonder who'd had been regular guests at his chiselhurst house and why he chose to rent that for that much for 1 year stay. Why he chose to do O2 instead of that show in Las vegas. Had he not died, maybe he'd have found what he was looking for.
"Killer B you are crazy to mention that ugly seeking 15 minutes fame with no proof of 'phonecalls' she claims."
O2 -- what are you on??
"Killer B you are crazy to mention that ugly seeking 15 minutes fame with no proof of 'phonecalls' she claims."
O2 -- what are you on??"
Yeah - what WAS that post all about? And rasta11's post. Neither is relevant to the story at hand.
BTW - did it ever occur to anyone here that whoever bought this house bought it because they LIKED it and not because Michael Jackson lived there?
PS I like it better than Nicholas Cage's house!!! This one has a little more "warmth" to it and doesn't look like a museum.
tomfranklin You seem to forget it was Phil Gramm (R) (foreclosure Phil) who started the dergulation of banking that ended up causing the real estate mess. Let's not forget John McCain who never met an industry he did not like to dergulate who had a hand in banking deregulation. By the way his son had a hand in a banks failure right here in Las Vegas and quickly headed to Phoenix to work for step mama's Budweiser distributorship.
It was George Bush who encouraged congress to find ways for unqualified buyers of homes to be able to get mortgages. Those bad mortgaes were then sold off as good investments to Wall Street. The rest is history.
Get your facts straight next time before you make a fool of yourself.
enviroprotector You are an idiot and this is another idiotic post. There is no tax payer bailout money involved in this transaction. Please go outside and play before it gets dark.
Now if only they can sell your average home this fast. Their $3.1 million cash deal is now worth 2.6 million....sorry to say.Oh well I'm sure they knew this...didn't they?
Det_Munch -- I toured this house three times with a friend who was shopping for a house along those lines. Of all the mansions it seemed more of a home than any of the others. Although homes like this are living too large for me, it's got some cozy areas.
The master suite alone is incredibly nice. The one funny thing about the place is that "secret exit to a rooftop deck designed for sun bathing." It takes you through a small area with a privacy wall that has maybe half a dozen lighted nooks in it, like for pagan idols.
where did the kiddies stay?
I heard that NAMBLA purchased it so they can turn it into a shrine.