Trousdale Estates, Beverly Hills · Provenance Record
Katzenberg Estate, Trousdale Estates
$125,000,000 · recorded 2020
Beverly Hills, CA
The 6.4-acre hilltop compound in Trousdale Estates has traded twice on the public record: from $35 million when DreamWorks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg bought the raw site in 2009, to $125 million when he sold the completed 26,000-square-foot estate to WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum in August 2020, then the third-highest residential sale in California history.
Sale Price
$125,000,000
Record Date
August 2020
Status
Closed (Off-Market)
Property Type
Single-Family Estate
Listing Agent(s)
Listing Brokerage
Westside Estate Agency
Buyer’s Agent(s)
Buyer’s Brokerage
Westside Estate Agency
Ownership Lineage
Every press-verified change of hands on record for this property, in order.
Sold · $35,000,000
Jeffrey Katzenberg buys the raw site from the estate of Simon Ramo
DreamWorks Animation co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg acquires the 6.4-acre Trousdale Estates lot, then holding a midcentury modern house, for $35 million. He later demolishes the existing structure and builds a 26,000-square-foot modern farmhouse designed by architect Howard Backen.
Sources: Forbes, Celebrity Net Worth
Sold · $125,000,000
Katzenberg sells off-market to Jan Koum for $125 million
Katzenberg and his wife Marilyn sell the completed estate off-market to WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum for $125 million in an all-cash deal, making it the third-highest residential sale in California history at the time, behind only the Warner Estate and Chartwell. Kurt Rappaport of Westside Estate Agency represents both Katzenberg and Koum.
Sources: Forbes, The Wall Street Journal / Hoffman West, Jewish Business News
Press Citations
Every fact on this page traces to one of these sources.
Forbes
For $125 Million, Jeffrey Katzenberg Sells to WhatsApp Cofounder Jan Koum
Forbes named Kurt Rappaport of Westside Estate Agency as the agent for both parties and confirmed Katzenberg's 2009 purchase price of $35 million for the raw site.
September 2020
The Wall Street Journal / Hoffman West
Jeff Bezos, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen Led 2020’s Biggest Real-Estate Deals
The Wall Street Journal, republished by Hoffman West, confirmed the $125 million off-market sale to Jan Koum and that Kurt Rappaport of Westside Estate Agency brokered both sides.
2020
Jewish Business News
Jan Koum Bought Jeffrey Katzenberg’s Beverly Hills Home for $125 Million
Citing Variety, Jewish Business News confirmed Koum as the buyer and the $125 million sale price for the Trousdale Estates property.
September 2020
Celebrity Net Worth
Jeffrey Katzenberg Sells Beverly Hills Mansion to WhatsApp Founder Jan Koum for $125 Million
Celebrity Net Worth confirmed the all-cash structure of the deal and ranked it third among the highest residential sales in California history at the time.
August 2020
How This Record Was Verified
- Method
- Compiled from public property records and their named press citations. This lineage reflects only transactions independently confirmed by the sources cited.
- Open entries
- None. Both transactions and the agent of record are confirmed across multiple named sources.
- Sources
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