Taylor Swift’s Samuel Goldwyn Estate Beverly Hills

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Taylor Swift’s Samuel Goldwyn Estate

America’s #1 sweetheart, Taylor Swift, is one of the world’s richest celebrities with an estimated net worth from her music, concerts, acting and endorsements over $1.5 billion. What to do with all that money? Taylor has invested much of it in real estate with homes in New York City, Rhode Island, Nashville, and, in 2015, Samuel Goldwyn’s 10,982-square-foot, seven-bedroom, ten-bath mansion in Beverly Hills.

The Samuel Goldwyn Estate was designed in the Georgian Revival style by Douglas Honnold and George Russell, and was built in 1934, when Beverly Hills was still mostly orange groves and a few oil wells. Included in the mansion are a library-screening room, a guest suite with a private entrance on the home’s main level, a library, a card room, a gym, and an additional private guest apartment above the garage. The master suite has a veranda that overlooks the city lights. Outside is a swimming pool and pool house with a kitchenette and sunken tennis courts.

Goldwyn (1879-1974) founded award-winning Goldwyn Pictures and Samuel Goldwyn Productions - now known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, with the famous roaring lion head logo. In recognition of Goldwyn’s historical contributions to the film industry, Taylor sought and achieved landmark status for her new home to ensure its preservation for future generations of movie fans. Her home is now an official Beverly Hills city landmark.

Since purchasing the home in 2015, Swift has worked closely with architects to bring the estate back close to its condition that existed when it was built for Goldwyn and his wife, Frances. The home was a neighborhood destination for many of the era’s Hollywood stars, including Clark Gable and Charlie Chaplin, and used by Sam as collateral for several of his films, including Wuthering Heights and his 1946 Oscar-winner The Best Years of Our Lives. After he died in 1994, the home stayed in the Goldwyn family for over 80 years until Taylor purchased it from the estate of Goldwyn’s son for $25 million.

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