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Joni Mitchell’s former Malibu beach home just got a $2 million price cut only three months after hitting the market. 

The home, in the exclusive, gated enclave of Malibu Colony, was listed for sale at the end of May for $26.995 million, and after Thursday’s price adjustment, it’s now asking $24.9 million. 

“With the newly adjusted offering price, this exceptional property presents an even more compelling opportunity to own a piece of music history on one of Malibu’s most celebrated beaches,” co-listing agent Nanette Iggulden of Coldwell Banker Realty said.

Designed by architect Ron Goldman, the Cape Cod-inspired home was built for the legendary singer-songwriter in 1982, and when Mitchell sold it to the current owner—Stanley Gold, former president and CEO of Roy E. Disney’s private investment company, Shamrock Holdings—she left behind a stone dining table.

“It has been enjoyed by the seller, and he would happily sell it with the property,” Iggulden previously told Mansion Global.

Neither Gold, who is also a former Walt Disney Company board member, nor a representative for Mitchell immediately responded to a request for comment. 

From its entrance on Malibu Road, the home is unassuming, but behind its front door, a 4,000-square-foot home unfolds. The interiors combine beamed and vaulted ceilings with glass walls and stone floors.

A spiral staircase off the kitchen leads up to the primary suite with a private balcony overlooking the Pacific Ocean. It’s one of five bedrooms on the property, which includes a detached guest house, according to the listing, which Iggulden shares with Jody Katz of Estates & Trusts Realty. 

The main-floor living room, which has a fireplace, leads out to the back stone patio, where there’s a pool, hot tub and a wooden deck, beyond which the home has direct access to the beach.

Mitchell’s onetime abode wasn’t the only former celebrity residence to get a price cut on Thursday. A Los Angeles home that claims Madonna, Britney Spears and Brittany Murphy as former residents is now asking $12.895 million after $1 million was lopped off the price.

Though the home looks entirely different now, Mansion Global previously reported.

After Murphy’s death in 2009, her estate sold the property in 2011, and the new owners completely redid the 9,400-square-foot home, which stands on about an acre in L.A.’s Bird Streets. 

It’s now owned by a trust, which bought the property in 2020 for $12.2 million, records show.

The six-bedroom, nine-bathroom home comes with wraparound balconies, an elevator, an infinity-edge pool, an outdoor kitchen and solar power, according to the listing with Ben Belack of Serhant California. He declined to comment.

The home has been on and off the market for about two years, first listing in July 2024 for $18.995 million with a different broker and seeing several price reductions since. 

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A Tudor-esque mansion built by the Hearst family for the manager of their lucrative gold mine in the Black Hills of South Dakota has come to market asking $6.3 million. 

Located just 3 miles outside Deadwood, the 1930s mansion spans nearly 10,000 square feet and sits on 1.8 acres of land on Fairview Avenue. The craftsmanship and opulence—uncommon for the region—is a testament to the legacy of the Hearst family and the region’s gold mining history, according to seller Gary Coe.

Coe and his wife, Sandra, bought the house in 2011 for $400,000, according to property records, following a 24-year break from the region to which they’d returned. They found it in disrepair and spent nine months refreshing it. “It’s a very solid, solid building; there’s nothing like it,” Coe said. “But it did need a lot of upkeep.”

They listed it with Heath Gran and Scott Munro of Great Peaks Realty earlier this month.

Today, the Hearst family is known for its media empire but George Hearst quite literally struck it rich during the 1850s gold rush, when he bought a claim in the Ophir Mine in Nevada. About 20 years later, in 1877, Hearst bought the claim to a rich vein of ore that had been discovered the year earlier in Lead, South Dakota.

Through a variety of means, Hearst expanded the Lead striking operation, turning it into the Homestake Mine, the deepest underground gold mine in the Western Hemisphere that remained operational for 125 years. After his death, his son, William Randolph Hearst, inherited the mining business but had little interest in running it himself, according to Coe.

“William Randolph was an only child, and he was a spoiled brat; he liked the money but didn’t want to deal with the mine,” he said. “They built this mansion to attract a manager—and it worked.”

The younger Hearst and his mother, Phoebe Hearst, brought in craftspeople from Europe to build the mansion, and it was outfitted with exquisite details not found in the region, including gorgeous oak millwork, elaborately detailed fireplaces and iron railings crafted in the mine’s foundry, according to Coe.

The five-bedroom Homestake Mansion, as the property is called, housed five managers over 50 years, until the 1980s, at which point the mine had mostly ceased operations. It was then transferred to the city, and was used for various public purposes over the next decades. 

When the Coes bought it, they restored what they could and made some changes to the layout to accommodate modern living, including opening the kitchen to the dining room and adding a counter and wet bar. “There was no real kitchen, just an old GE stove and a cast-iron sink and linoleum floors, where the rest of the mansion was just gorgeous,” Coe said.

In addition to its use as a family home, the property’s great green lawns can accommodate plenty of guests and have been used for weddings and other events. Its proximity to Deadwood, the region’s “mini-Las Vegas,” is another plus, Coe said.

Coe is an entrepreneur who has a long-running nutritional supplement business, and also offers an equine supplement that’s distributed in 35 states, he said.

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The 1800s house that belonged to the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken is slated for auction at the end of the month, alongside his handwritten recipes, kitchen supplies and legacy restaurant. 

Col. Harland Sanders and his wife, Claudia, bought the 5,400-square-foot mansion in Shelbyville, Kentucky, in 1959 and headquartered KFC out of the garage, before moving to the adjacent restaurant. Built in 1866, the two-story mansion features five bedrooms, a lounge, a library and a piano room. Much of the furniture owned by Sanders is still intact.

“It has so much of his life, and his time in this home, and I think that’s what a buyer wants,” said auctioneer Bill Menish of the Menish Group Auction & Real Estate. “If it had been completely redone and modernized, I think that would have been an incredible disappointment to potential buyers.”

Menish offered no price estimate for the property sale.

The 3-acre property that’s up for a sealed-bid auction includes Sanders’s home—named Blackwood Hall—as well as the still-operating Claudia Sanders Dinner House. 

After selling KFC for $2 million in 1964, Sanders opened the Dinner House—what “became an extension of the values and traditions that made the Colonel famous,” according to the auction’s news release. Blackwood Hall could be used by a new owner for anything from an event venue, a luxury vacation rental, a museum or “executive retreat,” according to The Menish Group.

Sanders, who died in 1980, hosted franchise owners from across the world at the property for workshops in cooking techniques, hospitality standards and business practices.

The 25,000-square-foot building, which was rebuilt and modernized following a fire in 1999, now features a main dining room, two smaller dining rooms and a larger event venue, as well as a gift shop, commercial kitchen facilities, and a second-floor lounge and balcony. The sale encompasses the full operating business, as well as the intellectual property and trademark rights tied to it.

“This was where they came together and said ‘This is our business, our restaurant,’” Menish said. “It’s a preserved time capsule of their impact.”

Aside from the sealed-bill property auction, KFC enthusiasts can also bid on documents and artifacts that recall Sanders’ career, personal life and public legacy: photographs, certificates, business documents, personal clothing and accessories, and a birthday card from President Richard Nixon.

Among the artifacts is Sanders’s working planner, which garnered media attention when it became the subject of litigation in 2001. The planner includes recipes that have never previously been available to the public, including a list of 11 herbs and spices that “has everyone wondering and wanting to see for themselves,” according to Menish.

The auctions opened on Monday and have received more than 100 offers from across the world, Menish said. The artifacts will be auctioned off, both in-person and online, on July 28, and sealed-bid offers for the property are due July 31.

“It’s a chance to own an iconic part of our childhood, or our parents or grandparents’ childhood, and that doesn’t come around every day,” Menish said. “It really has a great buzz going.”

Blackwood Hall was sold to Tommy and Cherry Settle in 1974, who worked to preserve the Sanders’s interior design. It is going to auction after two attempts to sell the property didn’t yield satisfying offers, according to Menish.

The Dinner House remains open—drawing thousands of visitors on holidays—and will continue to host events throughout the sale process.

“Families will tell you that they go there every year, and that will never change no matter who owns it,” Menish said. “It’s already changed hands before, but that spirit continues.”

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