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Purchased for $1.05 million in 1971, Hef's Garden of Eden -- six acres on top of a hill in the middle of a redwood forest -- was the most expensive real estate transaction of its kind to date in LA history. Since moving in, Hef landscaped the yard and added a pool, the Grotto, the Bath House, gymnasium and tennis courts.
A long, winding driveway ascends through the trees to meet the 30-room Gothic and Tudor mansion with ivy-covered stone walls, leaded glass windows, a slate roof, burnished copper drains and castle-like turrets in the corners. Rolling Stone called Hef's Shangri-la "a miniaturized Versailles." And Peter O'Toole commented, "This is what God would have done if He'd had the money."
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