Like everyone, the rich people of Los Angeles prize privacy and security. Unlike everyone, they can live in guarded, gated communities , from beachfront Malibu Colony to Los Feliz's star-studded Laughlin Park.
There are approximately 80 homes within the confines of this "fortress-like development" off Mulholland, east of Benedict Canyon Drive. To live here, you pretty much have to make or inherit bank: according to the American Communities Survey, it is the richest neighborhood in Los Angeles.
There is both a North and South Beverly Park, and both area gated; they once went to war and it was amazing. It's not exactly Billionaire's Carbon Beach, but Malibu Colony just east of Perenchio Golf Course has a notable roster of past and present luminaries and just-plain-rich residents. When it was built in the s, it was called Malibu Beach Motion Picture Colony , a reference to, duh, the motion picture types buying its waterfront spreads.
Behind the gates on La Brea Terrace, you'll only find about a dozen houses , but they're all class, like the historic-cultural monument Atkinson-Farnum-Swain House.
Throughout the ages, Cecil B. There are only about 60 properties in the 'hood. This gated mansion farm has only 14 estates on its spacious acres. It's the kind of neighborhood where Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady spend five years building a megamansion with moat! What's so hot about this place? The super-tony 'hood has the perfect combo of privacy and incredible vistas. The gates went up at Brentwood Circle in the mid-'90s in response to the nearby Getty Museum's expansion all that museum-going riff-raff.
