The Palm Springs, California, getaway of Hollywood icon Cary Grant returned to market this week asking $12.68 million.
The Spanish Revival home, located in the city’s Las Palmas neighborhood, was built in 1925 and later sold to a Las Vegas hotelier Charlie J. “Kewpie” Rich, who built a pool house for Grant to stay in when he visited, according to a memoir by the actor’s daughter Jennifer Grant.
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Rich was a St. Louis bookmaker-turned-Las Vegas casino mogul. He and his partner Sid Wyman owned the Las Vegas Dunes Hotel, where Grant married Dyan Cannon in 1965.
“Our No. 1 weekend getaway was to Uncle Charlie’s Palm Springs estate,” Jennifer Grant wrote in “Good Stuff,” published in 2011. “Uncle Charlie lived in a Spanish Adobe on several acres of manicured, Palm-tree lined property. We stayed in the pool house, near the good-for-guppy-hunting pond and gorgeous rose bushes.”
The Hollywood leading man was reportedly the one who gave the estate its name, “Villa Paraiso.”
Today, the 4-acre compound has four buildings spanning 15,000 square feet in total with eight bedrooms among them. That includes the four-bedroom main residence, which spans 7,500 square feet, Grant’s midcentury pool house and two additional guest homes. The grounds also include a four-car garage, citrus groves, 200 palm trees, landscaped gardens and views of the San Jacinto Mountains.
The sellers are Toni and Robert Kramer, who bought the property in 1995 for $1.3 million and have tried to sell it several times since 2008, according to records on Zillow and PropertyShark. The asking price has ranged from $8.95 million to $17.9 million. The home was last on the market in 2021 and was relisted with Ernie Carswell of Sotheby’s International Realty this week. He was not immediately available for further comment.
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Toni Holt Kramer is a former talk-show host, proud Mar-a-Lago member and founder of Trumpettes USA, which was formed to help elect Donald Trump in 2015. She just celebrated her husband’s 100th birthday last month and spent New Year’s at Mar-a-Lago, according to her Instagram. She did not immediately respond to a request for comment.