Nasty Gal online fashion retail founder Sophia Amoruso has sold her historic Hollywood Hills home for $6 million, Gimme Shelter can reveal.
The stunning midcentury-modern residence in Beachwood Canyon asked $9.2 million last year and comes with quite the history.
It was built in 1955 for sculptor, inventor and make-up artist extraordinaire Maurice Seiderman, who worked on films like “Citizen Kane,” in which he masterfully transformed a 25-year-old Orson Welles into an aging aristocrat.
The architect, Clyde Grimes, was later appointed California’s state architect by Gov. Jerry Brown. The home was later reimagined by AD 100 design firm Commune and architect Barbara Bestor.
At 3,137 square feet, the modern glass dwelling at 3306 Deronda Dr. boasts three bedrooms and four baths and sits on a 1-acre flat plateau with views from Downtown LA to the ocean.
Amoruso wrote about leaving the property in a Substack column, titled “I don’t possess this house. This house possesses me.”
The gated residence, hidden behind a facade wall, opens to a courtyard that leads to a foyer with high ceilings and large rooms that flow to covered patios for an indoor/outdoor feel. Outside, there’s a saltwater pool and landscaped grounds.
The property now also includes a brick wall that is the only remnant of “Brave New World” author Aldous Huxley’s estate, which burned to the ground in 1961. It’s where, Amoruso wrote on Substack, she would watch the fireworks on the Fourth of July and celebrate New Year’s.
Inside, a main bedroom suite comes with its own patio, a “boutique”-style dressing room and a spa-like marble bath.
There’s also a large media room, a living room with a fireplace, a dining room– and an outdoor space for al-fresco dining with a kitchen, a grill and a refrigerator. There’s even an infrared sauna.
Design details include floor-to-ceiling Fleetwood doors, multiple skylights, glass window walls, limestone floors inside and out, “book-matched travertine bathroom walls,” marble counters, and “tinted mirrors like some kind of scene from a ’70s porn,” Amoruso wrote.
Amoruso, who founded Nasty Gal in 2006 as a vintage eBay store and then turned it into a fast-fashion brand before she faced bankruptcy and sold it in 2017, is also the author of #Girlboss, a New York Times bestseller and a venture capitalist who now lives in London.
In her Substack, Amaroso also describes buying the home at age 28 from money she’d made “flipping clothes to buy a dream,” but that she didn’t buy the property for the house.
Instead, “I bought it for the property. The views, the silence, the nature. A contiguous acre in Beachwood Canyon, almost entirely flat, with 360-degree views of the city, perched just below the Hollywood Sign, at eye-level with the Griffith Observatory, and far enough away from Downtown LA that it looked like the Emerald City.”
The listing brokers are Carl Gambino and John Bercsi of the Gambino Group at Compass.
