Richard Pryor's old home
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A property in Los Angeles' Northridge neighborhood once owned by Richard Pryor and where the late comedian famously attempted self-immolation in 1980 has gone on the market.
The gated property, known as Hacienda de los Suenos, is currently owned by former pro football player Rashard Mendenhall. Rashard Mendenhall became a TV writer for the Ballers after the NFL. Mendenhall bought the spread in Northridge's Sherwood Forest enclave in 2017 for $2.5 million, according to Mansion Global. He currently has his sale price set at $4.236 million, which honors his career total of 4,236 rushing yards.
“I'm a Richard Pryor fan,” Mendenhall told Mansion Global. “He's an iconic figure and we're both from Illinois, so I feel a special connection to him. I'm from Skokie and he's from Peoria. He's such a great guy. So when I saw the property, I thought, “What was good enough for him is good enough for me.''
Pryor bought the house in the mid-1970s and was using freebase cocaine at the time. people The magazine wrote that he “poured 151 proof rum onto his shirt and began lighting it on fire with a lighter.” The comedian suffered burns covering more than 50 percent of his body. Pryor later went on to joke about the incident on his comedy show.
Pryor sold the 2.2 acres in 1989 for $940,000. And the house where Pryor lived was destroyed in the 1994 Northridge earthquake.
It was replaced with the current two-story, four-bedroom hacienda-style main residence. The mansion recalls his 1910 property's roots as a ranch and citrus grove.
Richard Pryor's former home in Northridge, California.
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Listed with Neil McDermott and Beate Kessler McDermott of Hilton & Hyland/Forbes Global Properties, the property includes six bedrooms in six buildings totaling 9,000 square feet of living space. Contains space. Detached guesthouse, pool house with kitchen, dance studio/gym (listing states it can be used as a recording or production studio), children's playhouse, sauna, three-car garage, dog kennel there is.
A legal horse property, the property includes event parking for approximately 25 cars, a pool with spa and waterfall, barbecue pavilion, tennis courts, putting green, vegetable garden, citrus trees, and green lawns. It also has outdoor facilities such as.
