Mystery buyer revealed for $21M manse in Beverly Hills

The buyer of Zeppo Marx’s former property in Beverly Hills for $20.8 million has been identified as an heiress to a fortune in Indonesia.

Adinda Bakrie, a member of one of the island nation’s richest families, and her husband Vinny Di Lucia bought the 10,750-square-foot home at 524 North Beverly Drive, Dirt.com reported.

The sale of the half-acre property in the Flats last month was first reported by The Real Deal.

Built on spec in 2020, the eight-bedroom, 11-bathroom contemporary home flaunts an elegant, hard-edged look that verges on austerity. 

It also sits on a piece of history. The property was once owned by Marx, the youngest of the Marx Brothers, who lived there with his then-wife Barbara. After the couple split, Barbara moved out and eventually became Frank Sinatra’s final wife. 

The midcentury house was also long owned by “Columbo” music composer John Cacavas. In 2016, Cacavas’ estate sold the property for $7.4 million to a trust tied to Standard Oil Investment Group.

The former Marx house was subsequently bulldozed, then replaced by the current home. It was listed for $23.5 million, then leased out to Bakrie before she agreed to purchase it.

The white-and-gray, two-story house has charcoal stone floors, contemporary light fixtures and high ceilings.

It has a living room with two glass wine displays, two kitchens, a gym and a movie theater packed with a pool table.  

An elevator leads upstairs, where a master suite has dual bathrooms, dual dressing rooms, a sitting area and a massage room. There’s also a private balcony served by a wet bar.

The yard includes a plunge pool and basketball court.

Broker Steven Bohbot of Standard Oil Realty held the listing. The buyers were represented by brokers Prima Bernardus and Kim Ewing of eXp Realty of California.

The Bakries have been business moguls in Indonesia for decades. Their Bakrie Group controls corporations with stakes in telecommunications, oil and gas, mining, real estate development and media, according to Dirt.

Adinda Bakrie, 40, grew up in Jakarta and is a celebrity in east Asia, where she appeared on the cover of Prestige Hong Kong 10 times and has more than 430,000 Instagram followers.

For the past decade, she has mostly lived at her father Indra Bakrie’s part-time mansion above Beverly Hills. He has owned the $11 million contemporary since 2007.

Her first cousin, Adhika Bakrie, recently paid $28 million for a house in the Trousdale Estates. Her uncle, Aburizal Bakrie, owns a Beverly Hills home across the street from a mansion rented by perpetual house-hunters Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck, according to Dirt.

— Dana Bartholomew