Jayne Mansfield's Pink Palace

Jayne Mansfield's Pink Palace was a mansion bought and refurbished with pink paint and fixtures by American actress Jayne Mansfield in 1957. The mansion was demolished in 2002.

Jayne Mansfield's Pink Palace
Gate and partial view of Mansfield's former mansion, the Pink Palace (photographed 1997)
General information
Address	10100 Sunset Boulevard
Town or city	Holmby Hills, Los Angeles
Coordinates	34°4′49.26″N 118°25′34.71″W
Demolished	2002

History

In November 1957, shortly before her marriage to Mickey Hargitay, Mansfield bought a 40-room Mediterranean-style mansion formerly owned by Rudy Vallée at 10100 Sunset Boulevard in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles.^[1] Much of the investment to buy the house came from the $81,340 ($910,642 in 2024 dollars)^[2] she inherited from her maternal grandfather Elmer Palmer.^[3][4] Mansfield had the house painted pink, with cupids surrounded by pink fluorescent lights, pink furs in the bathrooms, a pink heart-shaped bathtub, and a fountain spurting pink champagne, and then dubbed it the "Pink Palace". It was, according to her, a "pink landmark."^[5] Hargitay, a plumber and carpenter before getting into bodybuilding, built a pink heart-shaped swimming pool. Mansfield decorated the Pink Palace by writing to furniture and building suppliers requesting free samples. She received over $150,000 ($1,679,325 in 2024 dollars)^[2] in free merchandise, paying only $76,000 ($850,858 in 2024 dollars)^[2] for the mansion itself.^[6] It was still a large sum, when the average cost of a house at the time was under $7,500 ($83,966 in 2024 dollars^[2]).^[7]

The Pink Palace was sold after her death and its subsequent owners have included Ringo Starr and Engelbert Humperdinck.^[8] In 2002, Humperdinck sold it to developers, and the house was demolished in November of that year.