Is it easier to sell luxury homes if they were once homes to infamous residents? What if they were murdered there? One real estate broker in Beverly Hills is about to find out.
The home in question was not actually owned by Gangster Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel, but rather by his Beverly Hills mistress. Siegel as a bootlegger, a hitman, and a driving force behind the development of the Las Vegas Strip.
Upside down on his Flamingo Casino deal and accused of stealing from the mob, the notorious character was assassinated in 1947 by a sniper, who shot him with an M1 Carbine through the window of his mistress’s swanky Beverly Hills home. The murder was never solved, but the “murder mansion” has been listed for sale by Myra Nourmand of Nourmand & Associates with a list price of nearly $17 million.
The 7,000-square-foot, seven-bed, seven-bath mansion sits on over half an acre in the West End of the Beverly Hills Flats. Just a mile from the Beverly Hills Hotel and down the street from the Los Angeles Country Club, the estate is close to Rodeo Drive and the upscale shopping and dining in downtown Beverly Hills.
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