The Jannard House is on an almost ten-acre spread and has eight bedrooms, two guesthouse and a swim tank overlooking El Pescador State Beach
Whenever I hear of ol Jimmy Jannard in the news it always takes me back to baby Dez in the late-eighties paying one hundred and twenty shekels for a pair of Oakley Razor Blades the gal behind the surf shop counter said he looked “fire” in and thinking if he bought the crazy lookin’ specs in turn she’d rob his semen bank.
The folly of the young and dumb.
But Jimmy ain’t just known for his wild looking glasses ‘cause it was his second biz, RED, that changed the world by democratising filmmaking: the creation of relatively affordable, wildly portable HD cameras that meant indy filmmakers could get their hands on professional-grade equipment without having to sell their soul to a studio or whatever.
Incredibly, Jimmy sold RED to Nikon earlier this year for a bargain eighty-five mill.
Jimmy Jannard is worth a little under three billion dollars these days, is a Mormon, owns two Fijian islands, in the Lau Group, too, and if you know anything about the Lau group, oowee, empty waves for days, and, recently, sold his Malibu spread for $210 thereby surpassing Jay-Z and Beyonce for the most expensive joint in that sexy little beach town.
You might remember from the other day in a story about Kanye ripping the bowels out of a $53 million home called the little Ando and named after the Japanese architect Tadao Ando. Jay Z and Beyonce’s joint is the Big Ando.
Details of Jimmy Jannard’s sale are pretty light, it was all off market, but he bought the 9.5-acre oceanfront compound in 2012 for seventy-five mill and the new owner had to borrow $203 million to meet the $210 million asking price.
The Jannard House is on an almost ten-acre spread and has eight bedrooms, fourteen bathrooms, two guesthouses, a swinging little garden and a dazzling pool that overlooks El Pescador State Beach.
It ain’t the only house Jim Jannard has listed.
He recently put his Beverly Hills brutalist mansion on the market for sixty-eight mill, a joint that has been described as a “supervillain’s lair.”