I started a thread on this in GD as I hadn't seen it posted here. Have seen this house before, I'm sure Producer Michael has filmed the outside of it previously. Didn't realise how much of a deluded lunatic/ego maniac the property developer was, perhaps he should run for President soon?
The artificial flowers for "sustainability" in the first video was a bit WTF??, some garbled mention of charity work, mentions his ex a few too many times even wants to show them her music video in the cinema... then that last video. The guy is a complete nut case, I guess that final interview was a condition for being able to view the house. Somehow he's magically going to become a boxing promoter or convince a bunch of live celebrity singers + the estates of some dead ones to allow some performance at his house + including his ex in the lineup...
On the house itself, lots of it is just unnecessary, I'm not knocking all the entertainment stuff, if you're a billionaire and want a cinema or a bowling alley then that's pretty cool, the gym doesn't need a juice bar tho! FFS!!! The master bedroom balcony pool is just weird.
I think in LA, in a place like that, a better flex would be to have a massive garden, really well designed maybe with a natural swimming pond. The house itself is like 35k sq ft, maybe better to have it as more like 15-20k sq ft, keep a subterranean-ish cinema, pool, gym but ditch some of the other nonsense.
I think in the UK the idea lottery winner home is a more traditional large house but with an entertainment barn on-site for the big garage, cinema, bowling alley etc.. and a subterranean or separate pool. Or similarly some modern house or Huf-Haus type thing with entertainment barn. no need for this monstrosity no matter how wealthy you are.
For example this place in Cornwall makes use of barns:
One barn for the red cars:
One barn for the white cars + helicopter:
One barn for the motorbikes:
And another helicopter outside:
It's likely some financial consortium will buy it and rent it out for events.
Not sure about that, certainly wouldn't expect anyone to do so from him, possibly at a foreclosure auction... though he is surrounded by some neighbours who have paid in the 10s of millions and plenty of others in the millions for their homes (some of whom might be rather influential figures) and I suspect a bunch of them wouldn't be too happy about events etc.. being held there.
Anyway we should find out soon enough:
https://www.latimes.com/business/re...for-nile-niamis-infamous-mega-mansion-the-one
Niami, known for his brazen personality and wildly ambitious real estate projects, borrowed $82.5 million from Hankey Capital in 2018 to build the extravagant home. Over the last three years, that debt has ballooned to more than $110 million, and Hankey wants its money.
According to a document obtained by The Times, the lender just served Niami a notice of default on the prized property, which is considered the first step in the foreclosure process. If Niami can’t repay the loan in 90 days, Hankey could force a sale of the home.
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“We felt the owner of ‘The One’ was distracted from the job at hand, which is to bring the biggest and best house in the United States to market for sale,” said Don Hankey, chairman of Hankey Investment Co. “We hope our actions will kick off the official listing.”