Actor Robert Blake’s onetime Studio City home sells for $3.35 million
The onetime Studio City home of actor Robert Blake has sold for $3.35 million – well above the asking price of $2.995 million.
The 1937 ranch-style residence is where Blake was living in 2001 when his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley, was fatally shot outside a Studio City restaurant. The actor was charged with the slaying. He was later acquitted in criminal court, but found liable for wrongful death in a California civil court.
The updated Colfax Meadows area house of more than 5,000 square feet is designed for indoor-outdoor living. Also on the property is a two-story guesthouse that holds a studio, an office, a gym and a game room. There are five bedrooms and six bathrooms.
Sliding glass doors open to a covered pavilion with a fireplace. A saline infinity-edge swimming pool, a wood-fired pizza oven, a waterfall spa and a pond complete the third of an acre of grounds.
Blake, 84, starred in the 1970s TV series “Baretta†and in the 1967 movie “In Cold Blood.â€
He owned the home about for two decades before selling it in 2002. The property previously changed hands in 2003 for $1.5 million, public records show.
Michael Okun of Wish Sotheby’s International Realty was the listing agent. Craig White of Douglas Elliman represented the buyer.
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