Leo? Leo DiCaprio?
If one thing is certain in these topsy-turvy days, it is that nothing is. Seemingly solid marriages crumble overnight, leaving room for dream-like former flame re-kindlings. The World Surf League, once sporting laughingstock, becomes so popular that even tennis icons are aware of its existence.
Actors famous for playing sexless butterballs move to Malibu, modern surfing’s spiritual home (though the culturally appropriated form and on Chumash land), and absolutely dominate.
Take the example of Jonah Hill. A very funny star who has shined in many Hollywood films including The Wolf of Wall Street and
Who could have seen his rise to leading man, as he has allegedly wrapped production on his Jerry Garcia biopic and will soon begin his John Daly one?
Who would have imagined him seating himself upon Miki Dora’s Malibu throne, king of the beach?
But, again, live by the topsy-turvy, die by the topsy-turvy and it is being reported that international superstar Cher has just listed her own Malibu mansion to the tune of $85 million American dollars.
Cher reportedly paid $2.95 million for the 1.7-acre property in 1989, and it took five years to build the Venetian-inspired home, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The seven-bedroom gated home is near the Pacific Coast Highway (AKA California State Route 1) and aerial photos reveal it has striking ocean-facing arched doors and windows, a palm tree-lined driveway, an infinity pool and a tennis court.
Other amenities and highlights the famous home reportedly have include a Moorish fountain, an indoor and outdoor gym, an indoor and outdoor theater, a meditation room, a panic room, a climate-controlled wig room and Turkish-style bathrooms with wood screens, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The home’s builder was J. Wallace Tutt III and fine materials were used in its construction, such as European limestone and marble, bronze and hand-distressed mirrors, according to Architectural Digest.
Very enticing but worry must be percolating in Hill’s veins. What if the buyer is Jason Sudeikis, hot off his success as Ted Lasso, allegedly heartbroken and turning to our surfing for comfort?
Worse, what if the buyer is Harry Styles all handsome and svelte?
Could Jonah Hill compete with Harry Styles for Dora’s throne?
Or, even worse, his pal Leonardo DiCaprio?
Imagine Leo, who also famously once dated Gisele Bündchen just like Kelly Slater, adopted surfing as his fifth act?
What might Hill even begin to do aside from getting into his fine Mercedes Sprinter, fleeing and claiming Ventura as his new kingdom?
Currently more questions than answers.
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What the F did I just waste my time with?! How did I find myself here?
quiz: Cher married Sonny. Son was assasinated and did not ski into a tree. Cher hooked-up with David Geffen (his 1st fem) and dumped him for Greg Allman. true or false?
Why do you need a panic room if you have a meditation room?
fires, floods, papparazi’s, trespassing surfers…and a big zit suitable for Dr. Pimple Popper!
oh chas , your humor is so, “cruel” , and humor in putting down our own Jonah Hill……..who lets face it is a better comedian than we are surfers/writers/shapers………cruelty , cruelty , cruelty, another mans weapon of mass destruction or are you of the ,”sticks and stone will break my bones , but words will never hurt me?”
More questions than answers….please light more candles….even if only for Chas.
“he didn’t start the fire, but the fire’s burning and the world is turning”…BJoel
You’re cutting Dez’s grass with this real estate adjacent post
Chas, sorry to be that guy, but if you were going to get rich by piggybacking off this fat cunts fame, it would have happened by now.
You should be courting that other florence kid and his jewish hawaiian mate. I know they kind of damned you with faint praise before, but at least they bloody surf.
If it has to be malibu, can I suggest anthony hopkins? Whos gonna drop in on hannibal the cannibal??
Jodie Foster?
Lol!
Surf fans are astounded that long-heralded surf journalists Chas Smith and Derek Reilly, co-owners of bot-pop surf website Beachgrit, might have a blood feud on their hands regarding whose domain it is to publish stories about exorbitantly priced real estate. More apathy at this point than answers or “give-a-fucks.” But where do you stand? With Dez, the throne-holder of slightly surf-adjacent real estate? Or with Chuck, the sudden usurper?
currently? on the seawall admiring the islands and the deep blue sea…
If i could turn back time
Id buy more first nation land
There wasn’t much buying being done in those old-timey real estate transactions. Mostly genocides, forced marches to far away lands, stripping of culture. No exchange of monies but plenty breaking of treaties! That’s why I guarantee the entire Chumash tribe, replete with glistening & highly profitable Santa Barbara County casino, probably still collectively could not afford the asking price of Cher’s place. If only they would have thought ahead to “sell” it for a higher “asking” price they too could’ve “built their real estate portfolio thru generational wealth.” If only…
I had no idea that was goin on in the 80s.
Amazing!!!
Read up more on California history in the 1880s and you’d know!
Used to be Mexico
from 1821-1848 it was!
“and they were surfing at rincon, ventura county line, all over manhattan and down Doheny way, Silverstrand and C street, and at the ‘bu…
They named the stretch of beach at the mouth of Malibu Creek “Humaliwo”
or “the surf sounds loudly.” Humaliwo was an important center of
Chumash life due to its proximity to the ocean and its lush greenery.
Modern place names with Chumash origins include Malibu, Nipomo,
Lompoc, Ojai, Pismo Beach, Point Mugu, Port Hueneme, Piru, Lake Castaic,
Saticoy, Simi Valley and Somis. (Cali Polytechnical State Uni)
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Chas Murphy’s True Hollywood Stories.
MTV’s Behind The Music (headline bands always seem to crawl out of the ashes and play for another 20 years)
“BeachGrit Rises From the Ashes”
“What might Hill even begin to do…?”
Probably continue to train and prepare for his upcoming (date due to be finalised) fight against Mark ‘Muck Suckaturd’ Zuckerberg (another prospective ‘Hebrewian fight/surf friendly’ buyer of Cher’s Malibu mansion) in the next Jewjitsu X Surf games.
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he’s actually training for a duel with Mr Cruel Chas…..LOL!!
I’d pay per view!
I hit ‘save’ on N’flix for The Jerry G Story AND The John D story…’cause if those roles don’t leave him in ashes…will he ever again rise or just retreat to surfing and sailin? or crash into the Cher pad and land in the meditation room or panic room?