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.”
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Tell us more about this Lau group
gorgeous sentiments from ol’ Tom. still waiting on his ghost.
“look for me, ma; I’ll be there”
Shithole countries again hey?
Its catching on.
tryna speak your language a bit.
but it’s my absolute #1 “this MFer said what now?!?!?”
made ya look!
Yep,red white and blue. AUS, UK, USA.
Pretty unoriginal arent they.
And whadaya mean?, youre unchained!!!
85mil is the reported amount. And very low. I highly doubt ol’ Jimbo let it got for that. 2023 revenue was 159mil.
Wonder why hes selling it all?
Good for you django.
Got dang bro!! That’s def a cut.
There’s nothing funnier than RATM playing at a trump rally. The irony…
The reality
There ain’t no reality at a trump rally. It’s the dumbest of the dumb. Makes for good comedy though.
Nuthins dumber than a Biden voter
Nope
They also play Fortunate Son by Creedence Clearwater Revival…
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And they think Born in the USA is a patriotic song, LMFAO
High taxes?
In the built the pool too close to the cliff category.
The address sounded familiar. Arrived to find the property once over looked the only disco known to Malibu Adjacent, Sunspot that also succumbed to the great El Nino, 1983.
Succumbed is a weird word that in this case means, the hillside slid and took it out.
My assistant placed the 6′ ladder next to the left front leg of a wooden gazebo standing sentry over the cliff with a view from Topanga to LAX.
By the time I climbed the third rung, the ladder had sunken enough that the first rung was barely visible through the wet mud. Ruh roh.
We dug out the ladder and my guy was sent to fetch a piece of plywood to support the ladder while I went to talk to the owner. As I entered the home, historic photographs of the property adorned the walls and the gazebo was 50 yards from the cliff edge. In fact, there was a pool just 20 yards from the cliff edge at that time, 1965.
The house was built in the back at least a hundred yards from the cliff in the historic photos and now I can throw a nerf football from the kitchen over the cliff. Maybe even hit a wiffle ball over the cliff with an onshore wind.
“Those photos are great…. ” said the enthusiastic home owner. He had inherited the property recently and was renting it out for special events despite the opinions of his neighbors.
“You’re back yard is completely flooded, you better have someone check for leaky pipes under the back lawn”. He looked as confused as he looked concerned, but each step we took into the lawn was wet as rain even though we were in full drought and summer.
He called me a week later. He had two major water leaks and the cliff top was saturated to the gills which inspired the city to ban back yard activities and potentially close the house entirely. I doubt his neighbors were happy with that news.
Every time I drive PCH now, I look to see if any gazebo’s have fallen.
is it pool front if it’s in the backyard?
🤫🥽🍩
For that price it should come with multiple wives.
Wives pool!!
Xox
still hung up on the borrowing $203m … too lazy to dig myself but did you pull that off a deed of trust DR??
Not me, but TMZ!
That actually may be credible reporting….
Someone thinks the SoCal high end real estate market has peaked for now. Someone else thinks it hasn’t.
Not only did I sell a shit ton of Oakley’s back in the 80’s esp. blades and frogskins, everyone wanted that sticker. Thermonuclear Protection.
Where’s my cut?
*cunt
Xox
Think I’ll pass on the cunt. Enough of those around these parts. Thx for looking out though.
Getting the chop is not only fully acceptable but you might also win a few more heats at your local boardriders!
Xox
I had some purple iridium blades once. I got them off the face of a guy I caught busting my truck window to steal a $20 fabric board bag. Got his surfboard, too.
All that fucking money and the tennis court is on the piss.
*pickleball court
I wonder why he hates his grandchildren so much? Surely he is not short of a few bob and it would have given them all a lovely holiday house to hang in. Or maybe those state taxes are destroying his enjoyment.
Or maybe he is offloading all his property because he feels like its his duty to put this money towards helping the world in ways such as ending world hunger. I’m kidding.
Most likely buddy is moving to the “Blue Zone” to surf tropical death slabs and live life in permanent “pura vida” with Shane-O
Hope the new owner turns the place into VALhalla and charges $50K a day for VAL’s to get personal surf lessons at 3rd point, from Allan Sarlo.
3rd Point no longer exists and this home is closer to Trancas Point which died the same year as Kiddie Bowl, don’t worry Warshaw, I’ll take care of the history for you
Go ahead Gorilla, chew me up
my point exactly.
to me it looks like the place is closer to the true VALhalla; Leo Carillo.
Those camera’s fucken suck. He is a snake oil merchant.
What’s wrong with them?
I got out of videography for a few reasons, not the least of which was the camera arms race people were bleeding money on. But REDs have always produced good output.
How much better are they than any number of far less expensive cameras now? That’s another question. But early on, they changed the face of digital filmmaking outdoors.
Where to begin…. Disruptive tech is a great thing if done well but from the outset this company has been all smoke and mirrors. As a working cinematographer I get
to use quite a variety of camera platforms and without a doubt Red is the most unfunctional and unreliable in the mid to high price point camera market. Then there is the questionable patents holding the rest of camera companies to ransom there’s also controversy of buying cheap and nasty parts and wrapping them proprietary hardware and selling them at overinflated prices. Jim Jannard is truly a horrible human
That does add up.
Jim Jannard story would be a fascinating documentary but how do you
make it without making him look like an absolute cunt….
or how do you make it without making yourself look like a cunt for making him look like a cunt.
And Morgan Spurlock just died. He was good at that sort of thing. 😁