Liberace’s Las Vegas Estate!

Liberace’s Las Vegas Estate!

Liberace's Las Vegas Estate!

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Flamboyant almost beyond description, Liberace got our attention. Mr. Showmanship reeled us in with the sweeping floor-length fur capes he swirled with a flourish and went on to enchant us with his music and song. Dramatically he would begin pounding out Chopin and thirty seconds later shock us by making a quick switch into the pop music of the day. He flirted with his audiences and they loved him. We never knew what he would do next, but he was so talented and so outrageous that from the 1950s through the 1970s he was said to be the highest paid entertainer in the world. Many thought Liberace to be gay but he denied it even to the point of suing some of those who said so. However, near the end of his life in 1982, his chauffeur and supposed lover, Scott Thorson, sued him for $113 million in palimony. The judge dismissed most of the claim but Thorson received a $95,000 settlement. Liberace, "Lee" to his friends, died in 1987 at the age of 67 from an AIDS-related disease.

Liberace’s outrageous stage presence didn’t end there. He lived just as large and grandiose as he appeared during his performances. His home in Las Vegas was a study in all that glitters. It was a grand venue for lavish entertaining with gilded old world styled furniture, rooms full of crystal chandeliers, plush red velvet, mirrors everywhere and very personal touches such as piano keys in the floor tile snaking through the entrance and his etched portrait in the mirror behind the bar. For anyone who ventured into his private quarters, the marble bath with its gold porpoise fixtures and cherubs lounging alongside was breathtaking and the bed on its red carpeted rise under the mirrored ceiling was yet another opulent sight.

Though it has passed through two owners since his death, Liberace’s Las Vegas house has lost much of its opulence but fortunately many signs of the great entertainer remain such as the piano keys in the floor, chandeliers, etched bar mirror and the mirror above the red carpeted bed rise. With JP Morgan Chase bank foreclosing on the last owner, the estate is up for an all cash sale.

Consisting of 14,939 square feet with two bedrooms and ten baths, the house was built in 1962. Having sold for $3.7 million in 1989, the house is now available at $523,000 cash only.

Source: www.realtor.com