Real Estate Agents Reveal How They Sell Houses With Sordid Pasts
BY HADLEY MEARES | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for CNT For L.A. agents, marketing an estate with a notorious history presents challenges: "It really gets everybody’s imagination going," but in some cases (i.e., a murder), it’s best to focus on the architecture. On Aug. 14, 1951, William Randolph Hearst, 88, lay dying in a gilded Mediterranean Revival mansion in Beverly Hills. Five years earlier — in declining health and with his reputation wounded by Citizen Kane — he agreed to move from his beloved Hearst Castle in San Simeon to Los Angeles to be closer to doctors. Hearst’s longtime mistress, movie star Marion Davies,…