Jayne Mansfield’s Pink Palace, 10100 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles
In 1957, Jayne Mansfield bought a 40-room mansion at 10100 Sunset Boulevard that had once been Rudy Vallee’s and painted the whole thing pink and added cupids surrounded by pink fluorescent lights. It must have been quite a sight to see driving along Sunset. Not surprisingly, the house got dubbed “The Pink Palace.” This picture we’re seeing is the realtor’s photo that was used for one of the sales of the home after Mansfield died in 1967. Subsequent owners included Ringo Starr, Cass Elliot, and Engelbert Humperdinck, who sold in 2002 to developers who quickly demolished the place.
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I loved the Pink Palace. Sadly it’s now an overflow parking lot for the Owlwood estate that was next door.
Ah so that’s what it is now. I looked it up on Streetview and all I could see was a 12-foot hedge.
I was wondering what was there now. I google mapped it and ok by looks of it a parking lot makes sense.
Read it was “haunted” as several accidents happened pulling out the driveway onto road and that the pink paint kept seeping through. Personally, I think that had more to do with the crushed rock dyed pink that Jayne had the renovaters use when she bought the place.
Such a shame. Much like the Madonna Inn this is Hollywood Kitsch History that should have been preserved so future generations could see it.
You’re right, Tami, it was Madonna Inn level kitsch. I’d love to have seen it just once in the same way I’d love to see Graceland one of these days.