DREAMED up by some of the world’s leading architects, these sprawling homes were once home to the rich and powerful – until unimaginable horrors struck.
This week, a luxury hilltop mansion in Beverly Hills, California turned heads after it was put on the market for $85million.
The stunning property looks straight out of Netflix’s Selling Sunset, but harbours a dark secret, sitting on the same lot where the grisly Manson family murders took place in 1969.
While the original house was demolished following the murders of pregnant actress Sharon Tate, Abigail Folger, Jay Sebring and Wojciech Frykowski, other homes across the world have been left to rot after witnessing bone-chilling crimes.
Here we reveal the shocking stories behind the multi-million pound houses that no one wants to live in.
Los Feliz ‘Murder Mansion’
Dr Harold Perelson was a successful physician, with a wife and three children, when he moved into a Spanish style mansion in the sought-after Los Feliz neighbourhood in Los Angeles.
But on the night of December 6, 1959, at 4.30am, Perelson bludgeoned his sleeping wife Lillian, 42, to death with a hammer before attempting to murder his three kids.
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