Abandoned mansion overlooking LA turns into wild party house after property left unfinished
A million-dollar mansion perched along Los Angeles’ legendary Mulholland Drive has become anything but a dream home — with squatters and trespassers turning the unfinished property into a late-night party pad.
The abandoned house at 7711 Mulholland boasts sweeping views of the city, but neighbors say its biggest attraction after dark is the empty property itself.
“It’s just right under the Universal Overlook, and people come at night, use it to party,” said Ted, a local resident who lives near the property, told FOX11. “There’s graffiti all over it, beer cans, and everything.”
Neighbors say the calls for help have been piling up while the mansion has deteriorated into an eyesore and nuisance.
“The house on the top of the hill has been an issue for a while,” community member Paul Stern told NBC Los Angeles.
The home was last sold in 2022, according to Zillow, which describes the property as a three-bedroom, three-bathroom mansion spanning more than 4,000 square feet.
Its estimated market value is now upwards of $1.47 million.
Photos show a luxurious glass room and deck overlooking Los Angeles — a jaw-dropping perch that would be the envy of any Hollywood Hills homeowner.
But now, the property is covered with graffiti and several of the home’s windows are gone. Property records show Walking Media Inc. as the current owner of the property, NBC reported.
The mansion is in fact not actually finished. When it was last sold, it had no kitchen, no sewer connection, no bathroom and no driveway or off-street parking. However, that work could begin soon as the owner was issued a building permit in May, according to Realtor.com.
Until then, neighbors say the property has become a magnet for partygoers.
Video taken by residents shows cars lined up along the street at night, while neighbors claim some visitors have been doing drugs on the property.
Video captured by NBC even showed one instance where three men appear to be roaming around on the roof.
“It looks like [expletive],” Gary Tutunik told the Los Angeles Times. “They go in there, they vandalize it and they leave.”
The property sits in the hills surrounded by dry vegetation — raising fears that an accident at the abandoned home could spark a devastating wildfire.
“We’re in the hills, there’s a lot of dry vegetation,” Chris, a neighbor who lives down the hill, told FOX11, warning that a single spark could “blow up the whole neighborhood.”
There are also concerns about the structural integrity of the property and the hillside beneath it.
“Since the point when it was constructed, it wasn’t constructed properly,” Stern said. “It created a lot of mudslides. We dealt with the mudslides.”
Neighbors say their pleas for help had largely gone unanswered — until the property began attracting more attention.
Mayor Karen Bass’s office told the Times that the city’s Department of Building and Safety issued an order Aug. 28 requiring the owner to “clean and secure” the site by Sept. 7.
The mayor’s office also directed inspectors to secure the fence around the property with a chain and lock.
Walking Media Inc. did not respond to requests for comment from multiple outlets.
The company is also late on its property taxes, the Times reported.