Frank Sinatra’s Luxurious Hollywood Hills Home Is on the Market for the First Time in 50 Years: See Inside the $7.5 Million Mansion
A Hollywood bachelor pad that was once home to Frank Sinatra is on the market for a cool $7.5 million.
Villa Dorada was once home to Frank Sinatra, Bela Lugosi
Villa Dorada is a 7,400-square-foot Spanish Revival-style home built in 1929. Tucked away in the hills of the Outpost Estates neighborhood, the house is a time capsule of Hollywood’s golden age. The elegant retreat boasts ornate ironwork, fireplaces, and a wood-paneled elevator.
The home once belonged to Jimmy Van Heusen, an Oscar-winning composer. Van Heusen penned multiple songs for Sinatra, including “My Kind of Town.” Sinatra lived in the house with Van Heusen during the height of his movie career and made it into one of the town’s most legendary party pads. Before Sinatra took up residence, the striking property was home to Dracula actor Bela Lugosi. It’s now on the market for the first time in more than 50 years.
The three-level house at 2200 Maravilla Drive in Los Angeles has four en suite bedrooms plus private staff quarters. Unique features include a lower-level ballroom that opens directly to the backyard, an intimate telephone room for private conversations, and multiple terraces and balconies with views of the Los Angeles basin and landmarks like Griffith Observatory. The house also boasts vintage tilework, multiple fireplaces, dramatic chandeliers, Art Deco brass doorknobs, and period lighting. It even has its original intercom system.
Historic Hollywood home was ‘built for entertaining’
To show of the house to greatest effect, luxury staging and furniture design studio Vesta Home was brought in to highlight the historic architecture while also showing how it could work with today’s modern lifestyles.
“From the moment you walk through the front door, you feel the historic beauty in every detail,” senior designer Ryan Worthington said. “The tiled floors, the chandeliers, the grand windows—every room has a spark of interest. It was important that our design complemented rather than competed with the architecture. I leaned into the home’s rich colors and layered in antiques and textures that speak to its past.”
“This home was truly built for entertaining,” says listing agent John Zaffarano with RARE Properties Inc. at Compass. “Villa Dorada has every hallmark of old Hollywood — the dramatic architecture, the preserved details, the incredible views of L.A. from every angle. And when you remember that Frank Sinatra actually lived here, you can almost picture the parties and the energy that once filled these rooms.”
Villa Dorada isn’t the only Sinatra-associated house to hit the market recently. Earlier this year, a mid-century modern estate in Chatsworth that Ol’ Blue Eyes once rented sold for $8 million. In May, a house in Rancho Mirage, California, previously owned by Sinatra’s fourth wife, Barbara Sinatra, sold for $2.25 million, according to Mansion Global.
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