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At the Warner's request the estate was increased to seven-bedroom and nine baths, housed in four separate building.
Decorated by William Haineswith, this neoclassical-style home features solid bronze pharaoh-head doorknobs, brass torchere sconces, and Louis XVI furniture. Adorning the park like grounds is an original Bacchus fountain and two large swimming pools for your enjoyment, one of them is off the main house and guest suites and the other pool is adjacent to a quaint guest cottage and game house. The game house with a home theater is rumored to have hosted Elvis and Pricilla Presley, The Rat Pack, and even President Eisenhower in an always exclusive social scene. Ringed by giant palm and olive trees and enclosed by a high security wall, made this a perfect hideaway for Mr. Warner.
The Warner Estate remained in the family until 1990, when gritty-crime novelist and screenwriter Steven Shagan purchased the property. He center the estate in it's original splendor, including the 250 year-old wall murals of a Captain Cook scene by a French Artist Louis Henri Jean Charlot. The double-Oscar nominee for Best Screenplay in Save the Tiger and Voyage of the Damned, spent his time poolside writing the well-received screenplay's for the Gotti and Primal Fear thrillers of the 1990's. The inspiration of this well preserved and private estate can make any guest smitten with desert living like the many past guests of Jack Warner's.
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