By M&C News Aug 6, 2006, 4:39 GMT
Neighbor to the late Marlon Brando, actor Jack Nicholson, now owner of the Brando estate, is planning to level the run down lot and plant frangipani flowers over the plot according to the Times Online-UK.
Jack Nicholson © Chris Hatcher/Photorazzi
The Times reports that Nicholson returned from vacation in London last week, has “resolved to ‘sort out’ the estate at 12900 Mulholland Drive. The famous address, on the mountain road overlooking Los Angeles is where Nicholson cared for his friend Brando before his death.”
Mold has infested the Brando domicile, and the resulting actions will most likely involve the house being razed. The Times reports Nicholson stating: “It’s more likely that we will take the house down.”
The Times reports that “court records signed a year before his death, where an ailing Brando pleaded poverty after he was entangled in a child maintenance dispute; he described the house as a ‘one-bedroom bungalow with a den converted from a garage’.
He called it Frangipani, after the cream and yellow flower beloved of Buddhists. The double Oscar winner’s assets were estimated by his executors at £11m, largely from the sale of Frangipani and Tetiaroa, Brando’s island near Tahiti in the south Pacific.”
Brando’s Byzantine finances are still being sorted out in a series of lawsuits. Last month a former personal assistant claimed that Brando’s will was fraudulently altered days before he died initiating legal action against the estate and its executors.
The executors that include producer Michael Medavoy are raising money for the estate by licensing deals and land development via Brando’s Island Tetiaroa sold to Richard Bailey, a developer the Times Online reports who was “distrusted by Brando, who says he will turn the 13-island atoll into a luxury ‘eco-resort’.”
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