Celebrity Flipper: Vincent Gallo Flips A Lautner House In The Hollywood Hills
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Weird Indie movie star Vincent Gallo isn’t exactly our cup of joe, but he’s building a reputation as quite a house flipper, specializing in architecturally significant digs. Radar online has the very latest:
‘In July 2006, Gallo purchased the John Lautner-designed Wolffe House in the Hollywood Hills—an insanely modern work of art in wood, stone, and glass—for just under $4 million. Now, with the staggering asking price of $5.9 million, he stands to clear a nearly $2 million dollar profit in less than one year.
More: ‘And it’s hardly his first purchase and sale of architecturally significant property. He recently sold a one-bedroom apartment at the Sierra Towers in West Hollywood (formerly owned by David Geffen) to Cher for close to $4.5 million.
Who is John Lautner? (There are no stupid questions) From Wikipedia: ‘Influential American architect whose work in Southern California combined progressive engineering with humane design and dramatic space-age flair... created an entire genre of commercial architecture, ‘Googie,’ with the 1949 design for Googie’s Coffee Shop at the corner of Sunset Strip and Crescent Heights.’
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