Beverly Hills · Provenance Record
Warner Estate, 1801 Angelo Drive
$165,000,000 · recorded 2020
Beverly Hills, CA
The 9.4-acre Benedict Canyon estate built for Warner Bros. chief Jack Warner in the 1930s has changed hands twice on the public record, each sale resetting the price ceiling for a Los Angeles-area home: from $47.5 million when David Geffen bought it from the Warner estate in 1990, to a then-record $165 million when Amazon founder Jeff Bezos purchased it from Geffen in February 2020. The sale briefly stood as the most expensive residential transaction in Los Angeles-area history.
Sale Price
$165,000,000
Record Date
February 2020
Status
Closed (Off-Market)
Property Type
Single-Family Estate
Listing Agent(s)
Not disclosed
Listing Brokerage
Not disclosed
Buyer’s Agent(s)
Not disclosed
Buyer’s Brokerage
Not disclosed
Ownership Lineage
Every press-verified change of hands on record for this property, in order.
Sold · $47,500,000
David Geffen buys the estate, a then-record for Los Angeles
Record executive and studio founder David Geffen purchases the 9.4-acre estate, including its furnishings, for $47.5 million following the death of Ann Page, Jack Warner's widow, setting a then-record price for a Los Angeles-area home.
Sources: CNBC / Reuters, Beverly Hills Courier
Sold · $165,000,000
Bezos buys the estate off-market for $165 million, a Los Angeles-area record
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos purchases the Warner Estate from Geffen for $165 million in a deal first reported by The Wall Street Journal, setting a new record for a Los Angeles-area home and surpassing the $150 million paid for the Chartwell estate months earlier. The property was never officially listed, and no broker has been named in press coverage of the sale.
Sources: CNBC / Reuters, Forbes, Robb Report
Press Citations
Every fact on this page traces to one of these sources.
CNBC / Reuters
Bezos Buys Warner Estate in Beverly Hills for a Record $165 Million
Reuters, via CNBC, reported the $165 million sale from Geffen to Bezos and confirmed Geffen's 1990 purchase price of $47.5 million, first sourced to The Wall Street Journal.
February 2020
Forbes
Billionaire Jeff Bezos Buys Historic Beverly Hills Estate for Record $165 Million
Forbes confirmed the sale price via The Wall Street Journal and reported that the estate was never officially listed on the open market.
February 2020
Robb Report
Jeff Bezos Just Dropped a Record-Setting $165 Million on David Geffen’s LA Estate
Robb Report detailed the estate's history, confirming Geffen's 1990 purchase price and that the sale broke the record set three months earlier by the Chartwell estate.
February 2020
Beverly Hills Courier
Warner Estate Gets First Touch-Ups by Bezos
The Beverly Hills Courier confirmed the property address at 1801 Angelo Drive and Bezos's $165 million purchase price in later coverage of city planning permits filed for the estate.
April 2022
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
- No broker has been named in press coverage of either the 1990 or 2020 sale; both transactions appear to have been negotiated privately and off-market.
- Sources
- Every fact above carries its own citation, linked in the Press Citations section. Sourced from CNBC/Reuters, Forbes, Robb Report, and the Beverly Hills Courier.
- Corrections
- Unconditional and not contingent on any commercial relationship. See Corrections Policy.