Landscaping includes a large koi pond with artificial stream, a small citrus orchard and two well-established forests of tree ferns and redwoods. The mansion has 29 rooms including a wine cellar (with a Prohibition-era secret door), a screening room with built-in pipe organ, a game room, three zoo / aviary buildings (and related pet cemetery), a tennis/basketball court, a waterfall and a swimming pool area (including a patio and barbecue area, a grotto, a basement gym with sauna below the bathhouse). $15 million has been invested in renovation and expansion. It sits close to the northwestern corner of the Los Angeles Country Club, near University of California, Los Angeles, and the Bel-Air Country Club.
In early 2011, it was valued at $54 million. Statham (1908–1983), an engineer, inventor and chess aficionado. Kelly in 1927 for Arthur Letts Jr., son of the Broadway department store founder Arthur Letts and acquired by Playboy in 1971 for $1.1 million, from Louis D. The 21,987-square-foot (2,042.7 m 2) house is described as in the " Gothic- Tudor" style by Forbes magazine, and sits on 5.3 acres (2.1 ha). The school later sold the mansion, which was then redeveloped for luxury condominiums. After he moved to California, his company eventually let the mansion for a nominal rent to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and then donated it to the school outright. Hefner had founded Playboy in Chicago in 1953. It was a 70-room brick and limestone residence in Chicago's Gold Coast, which had been built in 1899. Hefner established the original Playboy Mansion in 1959. It also serves as a location for television production, magazine photography, charitable events, and civic functions. It is currently owned by Daren Metropoulos, the son of billionaire investor Dean Metropoulos, and is used for various corporate activities. The mansion became famous during the 1970s through media reports of Hefner's lavish parties which were often attended by celebrities and socialites.
Barbi Benton convinced Hefner to buy the home located in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, California, near Beverly Hills. The Playboy Mansion, also known as the Playboy Mansion West, is the former home of Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner who lived there from 1974 until his death in 2017.
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