{"id":1622,"date":"2011-06-01T06:55:56","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T11:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=1622"},"modified":"2011-06-01T06:55:56","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T11:55:56","slug":"gossip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=1622","title":{"rendered":"A LITTLE GOSSIP"},"content":{"rendered":"

If anyone cares to look, there may be a pattern of behavior here. (an internet search of Larry Ellison might prove interesting to the curious)<\/h1>\n

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Pacific Heights: Larry Ellison Buys House Next Door for $40M, Shrubbery Fracas Settled<\/a><\/h1>\n
Tuesday, May 31, 2011, by\u00a0Philip Ferrato<\/a><\/div>\n
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The latest twist in our tale of Mother Nature and the distress she causes among mere mortals: Curbed SF intel says Oracle CEO\u00a0Larry Ellison will buy the home of late socialite\/fashionista\/philanthropist Dodie Rosekrans at 2840 Broadway- immediately next door to his- for $40,000,000<\/strong>. The Rosekrans’ extravagant Willis Polk-designed house, built in 1916, has twenty-two rooms and lacks a garage, but it does have unobstructable views of the bay. And the billionaire’s\u00a0multi-year battle<\/a> with his downhill neighbors\/millionaires Jane and Bernard von Bothmer may be finally coming to a close. Apparently settled yesterday morning, with lawyers beavering away over the holiday weekend, the case is a log-book of Dickensian wrangling over an eighty-year-old acacia and some overly-enthusiastic redwoods and just how many feet of wood would get trimmed from their tops. Meanwhile, there’s been an attempt to landmark the acacia, plus during a recent deposition, Jane von Bothmer produced photos of Ellison’s employees illicitly strapped into her trees, ready to trim.<\/p>\n

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This past week, Ellison defended himself in the Wall Street Journal\u00a0via his tree lawyer<\/a>, and back in 2007, the von Bothmers turned down two offers from Ellison to buy their property. Having paid $6,900,000 for their house in 2004, renovating it and the garden extensively, the barnacle-like von Bothmers refused to be scraped away, but they have now agreed to maintain the redwoods at a height within two feet of the elevation of the yachtsman’s second floor.<\/p>\n

The von Bothmer’s Mediterranean style house on Vallejo Street (not visible from the street) was designed by George Applegarth and built in 1925; it has a later garden by Thomas Church that was revised by another owner to be especially hummingbird-friendly. Back up on Broadway, the austere brown facade of the Rosekrans house hides an extravagant interior and a reproduction of a Spanish Rennaissance patio. In the 1970’s the Rosekrans hired Michael Taylor to decorate the interiors and Dodie apparently never changed a thing, although we expect it’s been emptied out since her death last year- her Picassos were sold earlier in May at Sotheby’s. In the gallery above, vintage shots, including Ellison’s new view, culled from Diane Dorran Saeks’s design blog\u00a0The Salon Styliste<\/a>. Ellison’s house was designed by William Wurster in 1958 for Anna Spreckels Coleman, but it’s been so extensively renovated there’s not much Wurster left. It does, however, have a three-car garage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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