The home that actor Marlon Brando lived in for close to 50 plus years is slated for demolition by long time neighbor actor Jack Nicholson. The home is in such disrepair and so covered in mold that the cost of restoration is not feasible. Instead Nicholson will level the  home and fill in the pool and plant a field of Brando’s favorite flowers on the site.

IT WAS dark, cramped and run-down, but for nearly half a century it was Marlon Brando’s home. Now his neighbour Jack Nicholson, who paid £3.4m for the house after Brando died two years ago, is planning to demolish it and plant frangipani flowers over the plot.
Nicholson, who returned from a holiday in London last week, resolved to “sort out” the estate at 12900 Mulholland Drive. The famous address, on the mountain road overlooking Los Angles, is where Nicholson cared for his friend Brando before his death.

The 69-year-old actor has been advised that it would be too expensive to restore the “derelict” house which has been beset by mould. Getting the mould out would be difficult. “It’s more likely that we will take the house down,” said Nicholson last week.
For safety reasons Nicholson will probably fill in the pool which, shortly before his death, Brando declared he would stock with electric eels to power his house and reduce his electric light bill.
In court records signed a year before his death, where an ailing Brando pleaded poverty after he was entangled in a child maintenance dispute, he described the house as a “one-bedroom bungalow with a den converted from a garage”. He called it Frangipani, after the cream and yellow flower beloved of Buddhists. The double Oscar winner’s assets were estimated by his executors at £11m, largely from the sale of Frangipani and Tetiaroa, Brando’s island near Tahiti in the south Pacific.

Jack Nicholson to demolish his friend Brando’s house – Sunday Times – Times Online.

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