Gloria Swanson’s Mansion Reduced!

Gloria Swanson’s Mansion Reduced!

Gloria Swanson's Mansion Reduced!

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Gloria Crest, surprisingly named for the location and not Gloria Swanson, was built in 1926 by Count Stefan Poniatowski, heir to the Polish throne. The Count had made millions in the silk industry and built the mansion as a testament to his wealth. His wife, Edythe, landscaped the walled five acres with exotic gardens which still contain rare horticultural examples today. When the stock market crashed, the Count and Countess sold the villa to Joseph Kennedy, patriarch of the Kennedy clan. Joe turned around and gifted it to his mistress, film star Gloria Swanson.

Though most of this generation know Joe Kennedy through the films about JFK and his siblings as the hard pushing father intent on turning his sons into politicians, another reality for Joe was his interest in the film industry. Armed with the ego of many successful men, he was convinced he could run a movie studio better than anyone, so he went out to Hollywood and bought a studio just as the transition from silent films to talkies was beginning. Knowing that talkies were the future, he jumped in and made millions through his business acumen and forcing the studio forward by terrorizing his producers, directors and actors into action. During this time he met Gloria Swanson and, for once, found his equal. She was too famous for him to push around and too big a star to hide the flamboyant affair from his wife Rose. For three years, the affair was gossip fodder around the world, but the first time Joe got his hands into the creative end of filmmaking and his creation "Queen Kelly" proved a total failure, he left the movie world and Gloria. When he arrived back on the East Coast, Joe focused solely on the political futures of his children and the rest is well-known history. One of Gloria’s perks of the affair with Joe was the gift of this elegant Englewood, New Jersey mansion.

Sited on five landscaped acres with rare specimen plantings, the grounds of this 24,000 square foot mansion also have a pool, pool house and aviary, stream, lake, waterfall, island and pavillion. The interior contains eight bedrooms, fourteen bathrooms, banquet sized formal rooms, music bar room, den, library, chef’s kitchen, elevator, seven-car garage, greenhouse, staff quarters, gym, grotto, steam, spa, media room, wine cellar and a mind blowing list of additional amenities. For more information.

Film star Gloria Swanson’s gift from clandestine lover Joseph Kennedy was asking $39 million. Now asking $29.9 million.

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