The family of terrorist Osama Bin Laden – founder and first leader of the terrorist group al Qaeda which carried out the terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 – owns a $23 million pink mansion in California that has been used for multiple pornographic film shoots.
The 7,106-square-foot mansion is on sale, listed at $23 million. The price was dropped almost 18 percent from when it was first listed in 2021.
That price is based only on the value of the 2.16-acre lot itself, with the Realtor.com description calling it “the best development opportunity in Lower Bel-Air.”
Ibrahim bin Laden, one of more than 50 brothers of assassinated terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, has owned the property since 1983, according to the New York Post.
The “hidden Mediterranean villa” at 634 Stone Canyon Road, built in 1931, has seven bedrooms, five bathrooms, a pool, a seasonal creek and is a short walk from the “legendary” Hotel Bel-Air, according to the listing.
During his residency there, Bin Laden was likely neighbors with former President Ronald Reagan, who spent much of his post-presidency in a nearby mansion at 668 St. Cloud Road, according to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum.
Bin Laden never returned to his mansion – or the U.S., for that matter – following the Sept. 11 attacks orchestrated by his brother, which occurred while he was abroad, according to real estate blog Dirt.
Since then, the mansion’s vacancy has been interrupted at least five times by pornographic film productions, according to the Daily Star.
Its long-term vacancy shows in some of the pictures included in the listing. Vines are creeping down the walls of one outbuilding, and a courtyard’s tiled floor is covered in what look like sticks and leaves.
Other high-profile but less controversial former owners include architect John Elgin Woolf and Hollywood producer Arthur Freed, who produced and wrote the lyrics for the musical “Singin’ in the Rain,” according to the listing.
