Jayne Mansfield’s iconic 'Pink Palace' 💖✨

"Once located connected Sunset Boulevard and built successful 1929, this Mediterranean-style location was antecedently owned by performer Rudy Vallee, who Jayne Mansfield and her hubby Mickey Hargitay purchased it from successful 1957 for $76,000.

Once the mates bought the home, Jayne got consecutive to enactment connected converting it into her imagination “Pink Palace.” The walls were painted pink, gorgeous customised robust gates were installed passim the property, and galore shag carpets were added not conscionable to the floors but to immoderate of the walls too. A customized heart-shaped bathtub (designed by Mickey Hargitay himself) was installed, on with the iconic immense heart-shaped excavation successful the backyard. The mates adjacent imported crystal achromatic soil from the beaches of Acapulco to laic by the excavation successful beforehand of their marvellous grotto.

The full spot was genuinely a pink, colourful dreamland.

Engelbert Humperdinck purchased the location successful 1976, and aft selling it successful 2002, the owners who purchased the Pink Palace from Humperdinck made the determination to demolish it. Not overmuch has been done with the onshore since, but it seems improvement has conscionable begun. However, 1 acceptable of Jayne’s personalised “JM” gates inactive remains arsenic a saccharine small reminder of the iconic location that erstwhile stood there. The Pink Palace was a immense nonaccomplishment for the past lovers of Los Angeles."