{"id":670804,"date":"2026-07-03T01:16:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T01:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/670804\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T01:16:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T01:16:30","slug":"hollywood-regency-estate-casa-contenta-comes-to-market-in-bel-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/670804\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood Regency estate Casa Contenta comes to market in Bel-Air"},"content":{"rendered":"

For almost 75 years, Casa Contenta remained in the hands of the same family. Now, the 1936 Hollywood Regency estate has been listed<\/a> for US$12.699 million, bringing one of Bel-Air\u2019s most intact private compounds back to the market.<\/p>\n

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Occupying 1.88 acres overlooking the Bel-Air<\/a> Country Club, the estate was purchased by Texas oilman DD \u2018Tex\u2019 Feldman and his wife Jayne Poindexter Copp Feldman in the early 1950s. Over the following decades, the property became a regular setting for the couple\u2019s large-scale entertaining, featuring figures from Hollywood<\/a>, politics and music, including Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Lucille Ball and Burt Bacharach.<\/p>\n

The compound comprises seven buildings centred on an 11-bedroom main residence. Alongside a north-south tennis court and pool, the grounds include a dedicated tennis pavilion, a 2,700sqft guest and pool house, staff accommodation, garages, gardens and a series of outdoor entertaining spaces. Many original interiors remain, including the circular salon, the copper-clad entertainment room and a rooftop lounge overlooking the golf course. The house was also published in Architectural Digest in 1951.<\/p>\n

While the listing highlights redevelopment potential across its three legal lots, Casa Contenta\u2019s significance lies elsewhere. Few of Bel-Air\u2019s early estates remain so closely connected to the social life that helped define the neighbourhood, or preserve so much of the architecture created to accommodate it.<\/p>\n

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