The singer sings (photo from Instagram)
If you could turn back time, you would probably fly to buy land in the Tel Aviv area, but you could also purchase the land below the Malibu mansion, Los Angeles, now the home of the singer Cher, for only 3 million dollars.
This is actually exactly what the singer did, who purchased the area in 1989. The respective amount is now worth about 7.2 million, but the price of the land has jumped in a crazy way, until the veteran singer can afford to sell the house for 85 million dollars.
Cher bought the dump on which her mansion now sits 33 years ago. She hoped to build a grand mansion inspired by an Italian villa with a tennis court and very high walls on the property. “Not so fast,” said Malibu’s infamous Planning Commission.
The multitude of obstacles thrown up by the Malibu Planning Commission made the minister wait five years before she was able to break ground. She then spent another five years building what eventually became a nearly 4,000-square-foot mansion, complete with an absolutely stunning cliff-top pool overlooking the ocean.
Before approving her plans, one thing the committee rejected outright was the 10-foot-tall wall that Sher planned to put around the property. They insisted that the walls be not one inch higher than the maximum height of seven meters of the city.
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Cher completed the construction of her luxurious villa in 1999. Shortly after its completion, a planning commissioner in Malibu walked by and noted that the walls were more than seven meters high.
An inspector was sent immediately with a tape measure. There is no doubt that Sher ignored the committee’s instructions and built walls 10 meters high.
As a result, a legal battle developed. At first Cher claimed she needed the walls to keep out stalkers and paparazzi. She then took the position that the walls are actually doing Malibu a favor by keeping drivers from stray tennis balls flying onto the busy road.
The legal battle was appealed and appealed until finally, in August 2003, Sher and the municipality of Malibu reached a compromise. In return for a $125,000 donation to California public schools, Sher was allowed to maintain her walls.
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