Adinda Bakrie, a socialite and member of one of Indonesia’s wealthiest families, and her American husband Vinny Di Lucia were the buyers who recently forked out nearly $21 million for a strikingly contemporary house in the Flats neighborhood of Beverly Hills, property records indicate. The spendy transfer was first reported by The Real Deal.
Built on speculation in 2020, the nearly 11,000-square-foot mansion flaunts a sleekly elegant, hard-edged look that verges on austerity. It also sits on a piece of history — the half-acre property was once owned by Zeppo Marx, the youngest of the Marx Brothers, who lived there with his then-wife Barbara; following the couple’s split, Barbara moved out and eventually became Frank Sinatra’s final wife. The midcentury house was also long owned by “Columbo” music composter John Cacavas.
In 2016, Cacavas’ estate sold the property for $7.4 million to a wealthy local family. The former Marx house was subsequently razed, and the current structure erected in its stead. Completed in 2020, the contemporary manse was put up for sale at $23.5 million but eventually leased out to Bakrie before she agreed to a purchase deal.
Nestled behind gates and high hedges, the new house features charcoal gray stone floors, numerous contemporary light fixtures and high ceilings throughout. Amenities are numerous — there’s a living room with two separate wine display closets, both of them entirely glass and temperature-controlled, plus two kitchens with state-of-the-art appliances, a sports court and a movie theater equipped with a pool table.
Also on tap are an elevator, a gym, a backyard plunge pool and upstairs master suite with dual bathrooms, dual dressing rooms, a sitting area and even a dedicated massage room. There’s also a huge private balcony, accessible from the master suite, serviced by a convenient wet bar.
The Bakries may be virtually unknown in the U.S., but they’ve been business moguls in Indonesia for decades. Their Bakrie Group family holding company controls corporations with major stakes in telecommunications, oil and gas, mining, real estate development and media. Together, the various family members are worth in the hundreds of millions, perhaps even billions.
Adinda Bakrie, 40, grew up in Jakarta and is a celebrity of sorts in east Asia — she’s appeared on the cover of popular luxury lifestyle magazine Prestige Hong Kong a whopping 10 times, and has more than 430,000 Instagram followers — though she’s been based in Los Angeles for most of the last 10 years. For much of those years, she’s been living in her father Indra Bakrie’s part-time mansion, an $11 million contemporary showpiece high in the mountains above Beverly Hills, which he’s owned since 2007.
Some of Bakrie’s other family members also own impressive Beverly Hills estates. Her first cousin Adhika Bakrie recently paid $28 million for a house in the Trousdale Estates enclave. And her uncle Aburizal Bakrie has long owned a lavish 90210 home that happens to sit directly across the street from a mansion currently rented by perpetual house-hunters Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck.
Steven Bohbot of Standard Oil Realty held the listing; Prima Bernardus and Kim Ewing of eXp Realty of California repped the buyer.
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