The DeMille House Changes Hands at $24.75 Million

The Los Angeles estate linked to the name of Cecil B. DeMille has sold, and the price is on the record: $24.75 million. The seller was Angelina Jolie. The house runs to about 11,000 square feet, which makes it a real estate, not a hillside cottage. From the property, the view takes in the hills above Hollywood, with the Griffith Observatory standing out on its ridge. Few Los Angeles addresses can offer a view like that, with the city's best-known landmarks in sight from home. An estate carrying the DeMille name also belongs to the city's architectural record, and that is why this desk follows it. Every time a house like this is sold, its place in that record is confirmed again, and the recorded price shows what Los Angeles will pay for that kind of history.

With reporting from Elle Decor.