Malibu Mansion With Hollywood Ties Listed for $90 Million

Malibu Mansion With Hollywood Ties Listed for Million

A cliff-top estate in Malibu built by the late developer Ken Harges and featured in television’s “The O.C.” and film’s “Austin Powers” has hit the market for $90 million.

The Harges family has listed the 17,700-square-foot Mediterranean-style mansion at 28824 Cliffside Drive, in Point Dume, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The longtime home of Harges and his wife, Lorelei Harges, was also featured in the 90s summer blockbuster “Last Action Hero.”

The couple bought the 1.16-acre property in 1988, then completed the nine-bedroom, 15-bathroom mansion three years later.

The formal estate, known as Venezia Pacifica, sits on a cul de sac high above the beach overlooking the Pacific Ocean, with 176 feet of bluff frontage. It’s also near one of the best surf breaks in Southern California, according to listing agent Chris Cortazzo of Compass.

Outside, the two-story mansion has an Italian-style roof above a series of balconies and gleaming white terraces and classical columns. There’s an oceanfront pavilion and pool, with a formal garden and fountain around back.

Inside, the floor plan was intentionally symmetrical, with a central ballroom flanked by a formal dining room and library on either side, the Harges’ daughters, Bonnie Furgurson and Wendy Geweke, told the WSJ in a joint email.

Under the mansion is a 9,500-square-foot garage large enough for 20 cars.

Ken grew up poor in rural Tennessee and joined the U.S. Marine Corps out of high school. He built a plaster business in California before becoming a real-estate developer. He died in 2016.

Furgurson and Geweke said their parents built the home after living for many years in the San Fernando Valley. “They wanted to trade the Valley for the California coastline,” the sisters told the newspaper.

The median sale price in Point Dume for the three months ending May 31 was $14 million, more than double the same period last year, according to Redfin. A multi-parcel property near Little Dume Beach sold for $80 million last year, property records show.

– Dana Bartholomew