By the time Cole Moscatel completed his homeschool high school at sixteen, he already owned several successful pet grooming businesses in L.A.’s Bernardino County. It wasn’t long before the voraciously entrepreneurial teen built a small if not especially sexy empire that included a debt collection office, a travel agency, and a commercial real estate development firm.
The young success of the now just 24-year-old businessman and his wife and business partner Kelsea Moscatel begat an insatiable taste for the more expensive things in life along with a tireless penchant for self-promotion that in short order have manifested into oodles of media coverage, a reality show that only airs on their own social media channels, and an unabashedly elitist lifestyle and travel brand they call Snob World. So the stories go, Snob World, which bills itself as a concierge to the rich and famous, has helped clients get hard-to-come-by tickets to A-list Hollywood parties and last year managed to procure and deliver two COVID-19 tests from the U.S. to Russia, via private jet, of course, to a rich Russian client.
Moscatel grew up in San Bernardino County, in the affluent community of Redlands, and he and Kelsea initially made their home in that area. However, in 2017, his family home in Redlands, where he and then pregnant Kelsea lived with his then 79-year-old father, was set ablaze when a hoverboard caught fire. Lawsuits were filed. (Tax records show the nearly 10,000 square foot mansion, on almost five acres, is owned by the elder Moscatel and has a couple of times over the last few years been under threat of foreclosure.)
With their home in ashes and stars in their eyes, the Moscatels packed up and high-tailed it to Los Angeles where they rented a home above L.A.’s Sunset Strip from DJ Calvin Harris for $35,000 per month. With claims the house had myriad problems from the get-go, including hot water issues and a sound system that did not work properly, the Moscatels soon — you got it — filed a lawsuit against Harris that sought to nullify the lease contract.
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Image Credit: Redfin They family landed in Encino, in a contemporary hillside home that property records indicate the elder Moscatel bought in 2019 for $1.825 million. (Records show it has also been under threat of foreclosure.) However, it looks like the Rolls Royce driving jet setters plan to relocate to the far reaches of Calabasas where they’ve plunked down $4.4 million for conspicuously lavish mansion with nine bedrooms and 9.5 bathrooms in more than 11,000 square feet of ersatz opulence.
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Image Credit: Redfin Positioned at the top of a hill at the end of a cul-de-sac in a small guard-gated enclave nestled into the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains, the 1.3-acre spread’s sprawling, marble-filled mansion is certainly on brand for the Moscatels who are (or wish to be) synonymous with a proudly profligate in-your-face lifestyle that aims to make everyone think they’re rich rich rich.
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Image Credit: Redfin Bowl-shaped golden crystal chandeliers make splashy statements in the formal living and dining rooms that flank the double-height foyer where walls of glass behind the marble-paved sweetheart staircase are reflective of the home’s 1995 vintage.
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Image Credit: Redfin A strictly black-and-white affair shined up with a bunch of up-to-date stainless-steel appliances, the huge kitchen leads to a breakfast room and double-height family room.
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Image Credit: Redfin A massive sky light floods the staircase with daylight, while the catwalk gallery that rings the double-height space sports medallion-enhanced white wrought-iron railings.
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Image Credit: Redfin Of the nine bedrooms, all of which are en suite and some of which are squirreled down long zigzagged marble corridors, there are two huge and almost identical main bedrooms, each with a sitting room and rust-colored marble fireplace, a gargantuan dressing room, and a rust-colored marble bath with flashy brass-toned fixtures.
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Image Credit: Redfin Set against rugged open space, the hilltop spread includes a faux-grassed putting green notched into the hillside below the swimming pool and spa. The grounds additionally include a double-gated red-brick driveway, a sport court, and huge concrete and brick terraces interspersed with small patches of grass.
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Image Credit: Redfin The estate was listed with Evan Nelson and Harpreet Dindral of eXp Realty of California, who also represented the Moscatels in the transaction.
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