‘Party House’ May Be in New Hands : Legal: Status of agreement to control late-night festivities is in question. Attorney will amend document.

The legal status of an agreement to put a lid on the “party house” has been left in limbo.

The $2-million Studio City mansion, where neighbors say hundreds of people at a time pay to attend late night commercial parties, was the subject of an agreement last month between the owner and city officials, who brought suit charging the house was a public nuisance.

It appears now that title to the house changed just a week before the agreement was signed--but whether that means the house actually has new owners who are not bound by the agreement is unclear, Deputy City Atty. Deborah Sanchez said Thursday. It may have been simply a change in how the owner wanted the deed to read, she said.

Either way, Sanchez said, she will amend the city’s lawsuit aimed at quelling the late night merry-making at the mansion to include the new deed holder in case there are new owners. However, if the same people are involved in the new ownership, the present agreement would still be valid, she said.

Sanchez said she only recently discovered that the deed to the 7,500-square-foot hilltop mansion in the 3200 block of Wrightwood Drive had been transferred a week before the previous owner, Paul Campbell, reached agreement with the city to tone down the late night activities.

According to property records, the house was sold to Equity 2000 Corp. on Aug. 5, and the deed transfer was recorded on Sept. 21. Sanchez said the company is incorporated in Delaware, but lists a mailing address in Tallahassee, Fla.

Sanchez said she has been unable to reach anyone with Equity 2000, and has not spoken with Campbell in several weeks.

Under the agreement signed Sept. 29, Campbell agreed to ban alcohol sales and advertised events, limit parties to no more than 25 people and end the events by 10 p.m.

A judge was scheduled to formalize the agreement as a permanent injunction Monday, but that action was canceled after Sanchez discovered the change in title.

The house’s tenant, Jerry Bolduc, who staged many of the parties that neighbors complained about, has scoffed at the restrictions and said that as the lessee of the mansion, he never agreed to the terms.

Bolduc, known as “Jerry Bo,” filed a $1-million lawsuit against the city last week, claiming he had been harassed by vice detectives and defamed by the city’s description of his parties.

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But Sanchez maintained that even without Bolduc’s agreement to the conditions, he could be evicted if the settlement is violated because the building’s owner is legally responsible for seeing to it that the terms of the settlement are adhered to.

Bolduc moved in only last March, but city officials say the house has been Party Central since 1990, the site of widely advertised bashes, to which guests paid an entry fee, with themes like Lingerie Night. One party there was broadcast by MTV.

Neighbors have complained that party-goers block their driveways, run parking shuttles up and down their narrow road, have sex in public, urinate on their lawns and play loud music at all hours.

Bolduc contends that the claims are exaggerated.