The pool and pergola lounge area at the main house. (Photo by Scott Everts/SAE Photography)
The living room in the main house. (Photo by Scott Everts/SAE Photography)
The dining room in the main house. (Photo by Scott Everts/SAE Photography)
The pergola lounge area. (Photo by Scott Everts/SAE Photography)
The guest house and pool. (Photo by Scott Everts/SAE Photography)
Show Caption1 of 5The pool and pergola lounge area at the main house. (Photo by Scott Everts/SAE Photography)
ExpandA Chatsworth mid-century modern estate, once linked to Frank Sinatra, recently sold for $8 million.
The hilltop property has been on and off the market since 2011. As the Los Angeles Daily News reported in 2021, the entire estate — a main house and guest house on about 13.5 acres — sought as much as $21.5 million.
In late 2024, The Agency reintroduced the property as “mis-marketed for years” and highlighted its architectural significance, Hollywood history and income-generating potential.
An unidentified buyer acquired the property in two separate transactions at the asking prices, paying $5 million for the main house and just under $3 million for the guest house.
Past listing details show the main 6,661-square-foot house has four bedrooms, six bathrooms, formal dining and living rooms, a family room, a gym and floor-to-ceiling glass walls with expansive San Fernando Valley and mountain views.
Outdoor amenities include a 2,000-square-foot pergola lounge area, a 50-foot swimming pool and a smaller pool at the guest house.
The 1,019-square-foot dwelling has three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a combined living and dining room and a kitchen. Included in the sale is a tentative tract map approval to develop 11 separate parcels “as a very special guard-gated community,” the listing reads.
Blair Chang and Craig Knizek of The Agency handled the listings. Michael Preis of Re/Max One represented the buyer.
Architects William Pereira and Charles Luckman designed and built the property for New York banking heiress Dora Stillman and her husband, actor Jody Hutchinson, between 1949 and 1951.
In May 1952, UPI’s Aline Mosby reported the couple’s new $750,000 “ultra-modern” home had become an epicenter for star-studded gatherings, attracting celebrities like Angela Lansbury, Errol Flynn, Jane Wyman, Burt Lancaster and Lucille Ball. Mosby described it as “the first lavish movietown mansion in years” and “a hot topic of conversation over toothpicks-and-olives in Tinsel Town.”
When Hutchinson moved to New York, she leased the compound to Sinatra for nearly a decade, starting in the 1950s, according to a Forbes story. During this time, Sinatra hosted his Hollywood friends, including Marilyn Monroe, who allegedly rendezvoused with President John F. Kennedy in the guest house.
The property still draws celebrity.
According to the agents, the property generates $750,000 to $1.2 million annually as a backdrop for events, parties and production shoots.
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