The "The place the Boys Are" and "Gentle within the Piazza" actress and artist died in January at age 80.
With the proliferation of antiseptic mall-sized ultra-modern mansions and cookie cutter “trendy farmhouses,” with their acres of white partitions, miles of pale French oak flooring and huge partitions of disappearing glass, the extravagant, playfully flamboyant more-is-better Bel Air compound of company housing magnate Howard Ruby and late actress-turned-artist Yvette Mimieux is a much-welcomed architectural and ornamental antidote. Well-known for his head-in-the-clouds more-is-more aesthetic, late and influential set designer and decorator Tony Duquette would definitely approve.
An L.A. native who handed in January, at 80, Mimieux was found within the late Fifties whereas horseback driving within the Hollywood Hills. She went on to look in dozens of tv exhibits and movies, together with The place the Boys Are (1960) and Gentle within the Piazza (1962). In 1964 she earned a Golden Globe nomination when she grew to become what’s believed to be the primary lady to reveal her stomach button on American TV when she guest-starred on Dr. Kildare.
After her 1986 marriage to Ruby, rich co-founder of Oakwood Worldwide, a supplier of furnished short-term leases, the fiercely personal Mimieux, a globe-trotting collector of artwork and antiques, appeared on display screen simply twice extra, in a 1990 Perry Mason TV film and, her remaining position, in 1992, as a “thinly disguised” Ivana Trump within the high-camp Jackie Collins miniseries Woman Boss.
In recent times, Mimieux and Ruby pursued their private passions and, although nonetheless very a lot in love, he advised Mansion World final yr, lived individually; Ruby, who bought his stake in Oakwood a number of years in the past, misplaced his sight and moved to his boat in Marina Del Rey, whereas Mimieux traveled ceaselessly and, when on the town, resided within the residence-turned-art studio subsequent door to the Bel Air compound’s most important home.
Dubbed Il Sogno (“The Dream”), the primary residence was provided final yr with an asking value of $45 million. And now, since Mimieux’s passing, the whole one-of-a-kind compound has come out there at $49.5 million. The property is listed with a trio of powerhouse Platinum Triangle actual property movers and shakers: Linda Might of Linda Might Properties, Kurt Rappaport of Westside Property Company, and Jade Mills of Coldwell Banker Realty.
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