It doesn’t get more Old Hollywood than this.
Bravo star Josh Flagg’s latest million dollar listing – or in this case multimillion dollar listing – is a Beverly Hills estate once occupied by a young Gloria Vanderbilt, Page Six has learned.
Vanderbilt’s socialite mother, the older Gloria, briefly leased the home, and Little Gloria visited during the summer of 1941 when she was 17. But according to her 1985 autobiography, “Once Upon a Time,” it’s the residence where her life changed forever,
“That is where I met Howard Hughes,” she wrote in the book of the notorious – and much older – Hollywood playboy.
“He called my mother saying he wanted to come and talk to her. And she thought he was interested in her. As he was arriving, I was going out the door, and we met briefly,” she said, adding, Hughes, “asked my mother permission for me to take a screen test, and later we went out on a date.”
Vanderbilt later retold the story in “The Rainbow Comes and Goes,” the 2016 book she co-authored with her CNN anchor son Anderson Cooper. In their book, she opens up about past romances with Frank Sinatra and Marlo Brando, but told Kelly Ripa during a book promo tour stop on “Live with Kelly” that Hughes “was the best.” She passed away at 95 in 2019.
Noreen Nash, an MGM starlett of the 1940s and ’50s, purchased the estate, which is on the market for $16.5 million, after the Vanderbilts and lived there until she died at 99 in 2023. Hollywood pals Elvis, Warren Beatty, Bob Evan, Ali McGraw and Henry Miller, who was married on the property, were all regulars at the estate according to Flagg’s listing.
It’s the first time in 72 years that the home, located in the prestigious neighborhood known as the Flats, has been on the market.
The “truly once in a lifetime” home comes with a massive pool, guest house, library, six bedrooms, five bathrooms, and “can host 400 guests for an elegant party or fundraiser, and accomadate 14 cars,” according to the listing.
