Laughlin Park, Los Feliz: What Angelina Jolie's $24.75M Sale Reveals About the Market

What did Angelina Jolie's Los Feliz mansion actually sell for, and what does that number say about buying into one of Los Angeles's most private old-Hollywood enclaves right now? The historic Cecil B. DeMille estate in Laughlin Park closed on September 24, 2026, at $24,750,000, a price that landed $5.1 million below its original asking figure and offers a rare, dated look at what this nine-decade-old gated pocket of Los Feliz actually commands today.

The sale that set the number

The property sits on De Mille Drive, a private lane inside Laughlin Park north of Franklin Avenue. Built in 1916 in the Spanish Colonial Revival style, the roughly 11,000-square-foot house sits on about two acres and carries six bedrooms and ten bathrooms, plus a fitness studio, pool house, and guest house, according to Robb Report. Jolie bought the estate in 2017 for $24,500,000, listed it in May 2026 at $29,850,000, and closed the sale on September 24, 2026 at $24,750,000, a figure TMZ confirmed directly. The buyer has not been publicly identified.

That $5.1 million gap between the original ask and the final price, a discount of just over 17 percent, fits a pattern this series has already documented at the top of the Los Angeles market this year, including the list-price resets seen in Brentwood Park. A famous former owner and a century-old pedigree do not exempt a listing from settling closer to what current buyers, rather than last year's expectations, actually support.

What Laughlin Park actually is

Laughlin Park is not the flatter Los Feliz grid most buyers picture. Homer Laughlin, the businessman behind the Laughlin Building in downtown Los Angeles, acquired the hillside site in 1890 and began developing it after moving to the city from Ohio in 1897, planting an estimated 50,000 trees and shrubs and grading carriage roads across ground once described as among the highest in the hills above Hollywood, according to the Los Feliz Improvement Association. After Laughlin's death in January 1913, the Laughlin Park Company filed subdivision plans for 40 lots, later expanded to 77, each carrying a minimum construction requirement of $10,000, a substantial sum at the time. The enclave added gates at its entrances in 1987 and 1988, according to The Eastsider LA, and it has kept a level of privacy consistent with its original marketing ever since.

Cecil B. DeMille moved into the house on what is now De Mille Drive in 1916 and lived there until his death in 1959. He later bought the adjoining property from Charlie Chaplin and connected the two houses with a conservatory, using the combined estate to screen films, host family weddings, and shoot scenes for his 1927 film King of Kings, per The Eastsider LA's account. W.C. Fields, Carole Lombard, Deanna Durbin, and Lily Pons all lived in the enclave in the decades that followed. More recently, Laughlin Park has counted Brie Larson, Natalie Portman, will.i.am, and Kristen Stewart among its residents, alongside Jolie herself since 2017.

How Laughlin Park compares

The clearest way to see how far Laughlin Park sits above the rest of Los Feliz is to put its numbers next to two other verified 2026 sales this series has already covered in Los Feliz Estates, the Glendower Avenue hillside pocket on the opposite side of the neighborhood, plus the Los Feliz-wide median.

Sources: TMZ and Robb Report for the DeMille estate; Redfin for both Glendower Avenue sales; Redfin's Los Feliz housing-market page for the neighborhood-wide figure, current as of August 2026.

That is roughly a fourteen-fold spread between the Los Feliz median and a single Laughlin Park closing, inside one neighborhood name. Los Feliz Estates and Laughlin Park are both hillside and both trade well above the flats, but Laughlin Park's smaller lot count, 1910s pedigree, and unbroken chain of entertainment-industry ownership put it in a different bracket even from the neighborhood's other prestige pocket.

Who buys in an enclave like this

Buyers who transact in Laughlin Park are rarely first-time move-up buyers. The combination of a hard perimeter, gated since the late 1980s and landscaped from the start to block sightlines, a walkable set of only a few dozen lots, and a chain of ownership tracing back more than a century tends to draw buyers who already understand what they are trading for: privacy and pedigree over square-footage efficiency. That is a different conversation than the one that plays out a few minutes away in Hollywood Hills canyon streets, where view lots and newer construction do more of the selling than history does.

Because Laughlin Park sits at the literal high point where Los Feliz meets the hills above Hollywood, buyers comparing it to other hillside enclaves should confirm which jurisdiction and community plan area a specific address actually falls under rather than assuming from the neighborhood name alone. That distinction affects everything from hillside grading review to which permitting desk a renovation goes through, and it is worth checking current listings across the broader market through Grey Square's Los Angeles search before assuming any two hillside addresses are interchangeable.

What Measure ULA actually took off this sale

Every Los Angeles city sale above $5,400,000 pays a 4 percent transfer tax under Measure ULA, and every sale at $10,900,000 or above pays 5.5 percent of the full price, according to the Los Angeles Office of Finance's own FAQ. On the $24,750,000 DeMille estate closing, that works out to $1,361,250 in ULA tax alone, on top of the ordinary Los Angeles County documentary transfer tax of $1.10 per $1,000 of value. Unlike Beverly Hills, Malibu, and Santa Monica, separately incorporated cities this series has covered, Los Feliz sits inside the City of Los Angeles, so ULA applies in full to Laughlin Park regardless of how private or historic a specific street happens to be.

For an owner weighing a Laughlin Park sale today, that is not a rounding error. More than one dollar in eighteen of a sale price this size goes to city transfer tax before escrow fees, agent commission, or any repairs a buyer negotiates come off the top. It is one reason sellers at this level increasingly ask about timing, seller-credit structure, and whether a longer hold changes the math before they list.

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Fire zone and insurance, briefly

Laughlin Park's hillside setting means Fire Hazard Severity Zone status is worth checking before assuming anything about insurance. Zone designation is assigned parcel by parcel through Cal Fire's Office of the State Fire Marshal, not by neighborhood name, so a specific Laughlin Park address should be checked against the current map directly rather than assumed safe because the enclave sits inland from the coast. Insurance underwriting across Los Angeles has tightened broadly since 2025 regardless of zone, and for a property in this price range it is a routine part of due diligence rather than an afterthought.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much did Angelina Jolie's Los Feliz estate sell for? The Cecil B. DeMille estate on De Mille Drive in Laughlin Park closed on September 24, 2026 at $24,750,000, according to TMZ, $5.1 million below its original May 2026 asking price of $29,850,000 per Robb Report. Jolie purchased the property in 2017 for $24,500,000.

How much Measure ULA tax applied to this sale? At $24,750,000, the sale crossed the city's 5.5 percent tier, which applies to the full price on any Los Angeles sale at $10,900,000 or above. That works out to roughly $1,361,250, per the current thresholds published by the Los Angeles Office of Finance.

Is Laughlin Park the same as the rest of Los Feliz? No. Laughlin Park is a small, gated hillside enclave founded in 1913 with a limited number of lots, distinct from both the Los Feliz flats and the Glendower Avenue hillside pocket known as Los Feliz Estates. Its price point sits well above the roughly $1.78 million Los Feliz neighborhood-wide median Redfin tracks.

Why don't most reports give a public street address for the DeMille estate? Laughlin Park has operated as a gated, restricted-access community since 1987 and 1988, per The Eastsider LA, and most coverage of the enclave describes properties by the private lane rather than a publicly searchable address, consistent with how the community has marketed itself since 1913.

What should you look for in an agent for a sale inside a gated enclave like Laughlin Park? The honest answer has little to do with name recognition and everything to do with whether an agent has actually closed transactions at this price point and understands how Measure ULA, escrow timing, and privacy-sensitive marketing interact once a listing sits inside a restricted-access community. Paul Blair has spent 22 years and more than $200 million in closed transactions working exactly this kind of high-value, discretion-sensitive deal, from the Park Cities and Preston Hollow in Dallas to the Hollywood Hills and the canyons above Los Feliz. If you are weighing a move in or out of Laughlin Park, start a conversation at greysq.com/contact before you price it.

Los Angeles has been my second market for years now, and a sale like the DeMille estate is exactly the kind of transaction where the history and the tax math both matter as much as the square footage. I have walked clients through the Measure ULA threshold calculation more than once this year alone. Paul Blair is the founder and broker of Grey Square, a virtual real estate brokerage representing buyers and sellers across Dallas and Los Angeles. With 22 years in the business and more than $200 million in closed transactions, Paul works the full range of the market, from luxury homes in the Park Cities and Preston Hollow to estates in the Hollywood Hills and across the Westside. Connect with Paul and the Grey Square team at greysq.com. TX TREC #9011505 · CA DRE #01792671.