Vincent Minnelli's Abandoned Mansion

On a corner of Sunset Blvd. in Beverly Hills across the street from the world famous Beverly Hills Hotel is an abandoned and decaying mansion. This was once the glamorous home of film director Vincent Minnelli. It was in this house that Minnelli died in 1988. The house was left in his will to his only daughter Liza. The will also had a stipulation in the will that Minnelli's widow Lee be allowed to live there. Lee Minnelli did indeed live in the house but in 2000 Liza wanted to sell the house and offered to buy her stepmother a condo. Lee refused the offer and stayed in the mansion. Liza in an effort to get Lee to move out stopped paying all the bills. The electricity was turned off and the garden was left to grow. There were servants who stayed on working for Lee Minnelli for free. 

Well Liza did eventually sell the house and Lee died. There were lots of problems with the sale and the new owners still have done nothing with the place just letting it decay. Squatters eventually took of residence in what was left of this once beautiful Hollywood Regency style mansion. There it sits sad and neglected in one of the most prestigious neighborhoods in Los Angeles.