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Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Parts of Rupert Murdoch's home at 1050 Moraga, Los Angeles 90049 burned in Skirball fire - Mary Cummins

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Video from a local NBC New report Wednesday showed flames at the 21st Century Fox mogul’s home. Later Wednesday, the Los Angeles Times reported that the fire had grown near Murdoch’s estate, but had not burned the property’s buildings or vineyard.

Murdoch’s property at 1050 Moraga Ave. was bought in August 2013 for $28.8 million from former Northrop Corp. CEO Tom Jones. Part of the property was once a horse ranch owned by Victor Fleming. The estate is nearly 16 acres acres with 13 acres of grapevines. The main residence is 7,724 square foot and the property includes a two bedroom guest house and a 4,400 square-foot office building.

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Mary Cummins of Animal Advocates is a wildlife rehabilitator licensed by the California Department of Fish and Game. Mary Cummins is also a licensed real estate appraiser in Los Angeles, California.

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Sunday, June 29, 2014

Heidi Klum selling 12759 Chalon Road, Brentwood home for $25,000,000 - Mary Cummins, Real Estate Appraiser, Los Angeles, California

Heidi Klum, Seal, Brentwood home - Mary Cummins, Real Estate Appraiser, Los Angeles, California

Heidi Klum, Seal, Brentwood home - Mary Cummins, Real Estate Appraiser, Los Angeles, California, 12759 Chalon Road, Los Angeles, CA 90049

12759 Chalon Road, Los Angeles, CA 90049 The Italian-style villa, completed in 1999, has been given the Heidi makeover—a complete renovation that revived and refreshed a front-row oceanview estate in the premier guard-gated community in Brentwood, located off bucolic Mandeville Canyon.

The Emmy Award–winning executive producer and host of “Project Runway” and judge on “Germany’s Next Topmodel” and the top-rated “America’s Got Talent” tapped her creative skills to transform the 12,300-square-foot, 8-bedroom 10-bath estate into a warm family home.

Iron gates open to a central motor court with a fountain. Radiating out from the double-height entrance hall are the main living areas—formal living room, formal dining room with wood paneling imported from a private dining room of a hotel in Paris, library with ornate ebonized wood bookcase that came from Napoleon’s country home in France, eat-in chef’s kitchen, butler’s pantry, family room, home office, media room and temperature-controlled wine cellar.

The high-ceilinged, perfectly proportioned rooms and hallways provide plenty of gallery-like wall space for art and photography. French doors offer access to multiple terraces and patios for a variety of outdoor dining and entertaining options.

Upstairs, the master suite consists of a bedroom, living room, terrace with ocean views, his and her custom closets and his and her bathrooms. There are 7 other bedrooms, including a professionally customized dressing/styling room.

Set on approx. 8.5 acres with approx. 3 acres of flat land, the grounds have ample recreational spaces for adults and children—infinity-edge pool and spa, koi pond, formal rose garden, fountains, lawns, gazebos, rolling green for golf putting and driving, children’s playhouse and slide, secret gardens and hiking trails—all with unobstructed ocean views and complete privacy.

Offered at $25 million.
Shown to pre-qualified buyers only.

Heidi Klum, Seal, Brentwood home - Mary Cummins, Real Estate Appraiser, Los Angeles, California

http://www.heidiklumestate.com/

Heidi Klum bought a Bel Air estate last year which she is currently renovating.

https://homes.yahoo.com/news/heidi-klum-buys-home-bel-air-183101453.html

Mary Cummins of Animal Advocates is a wildlife rehabilitator licensed by the California Department of Fish and Game. Mary Cummins is also a licensed real estate appraiser in Los Angeles, California.

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Sunday, June 8, 2014

20 year anniversary of murder of O.J. Simpson's ex-wife and her boyfriend - Mary Cummins real estate appraiser Los Angeles, California

O.J. Simpson murder "Trial of the Century"

Nicole Brown Simpson, Ronald Goldman, OJ Simpson - Mary Cummins, real estate appraiser, Animal Advocates

It’s been twenty years since the white Bronco carrying O.J. Simpson in a surreal, low-speed police chase left a permanent mark on our collective psyche. O.J. the NFL Hall of Famer armed with a gun, his passport, cash and a fake beard was threatening to kill himself after authorities decided to arrest him on suspicion of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson, 35, and her waiter boyfriend Ronald Goldman, 25.

Simpson’s friend Al Cowlings piloted the white SUV from one freeway to another as an estimated 95 million television viewers were glued to their TV sets. First O.J. drove south to the Orange County area where his mother lived. With police tailing him while he talked on his cell phone he eventually turned around and drove back to Los Angeles.

I remember the day well. I was driving to a boyfriend's house in the Palisades and encountered out of the ordinary traffic. As I drove over the 405 on Sunset I saw people lined up on the sides of the overpass trying to look at something on the south side of the freeway. Then I saw police cars with flashing lights behind me and helicopters above me. I continued on to my friend's house to find him watching the news. Seems O.J. was directly behind me going from the 405 to Sunset to his home.

My boyfriend and I had reservations at Michael's restaurant in Santa Monica that evening. The TV sets were all tuned into the O.J. story as in unfolded in a semi-stand off at his home. It was pretty surreal to see people whom I knew and places that I'd visited wrapped up in this news story. I frequented the restaurant where Ronald Goldman worked and had met him. I knew Nicole Simpson from going to parties in Brentwood and Bel Air. I knew O.J. from two not so pleasant earlier encounters with him and singer Al Jarreau. One of his lawyers Robert Kardashian worked out at my gym the Sports Club LA. I'd go to Christmas parties at his home. Johnnie Cochran and his wife were at the Christmas parties along with OJ's friend Al Cowlings.

The shockingly bold slayings took place June 12, 1994, just steps from the Brentwood, California, condo while the young Simpson children slept upstairs. Police eventually found two bloody leather gloves and a trail of bloody Bruno Magli shoe prints, evidence that would factor prominently in the televised drama that was the People vs. Orenthal James Simpson.

The “Trial of the Century” ended October 3, 1995, when a jury of nine blacks, two whites and one Latino found the Heisman Trophy winner not guilty. Everyone who knew O.J., Nicole and even the lawyers thought O.J. was guilty. I remember Kardashian's expression when O.J. was found not guilty. He too was in shock.

I believe the reason he was found not guilty was the result of a few things. There was sloppy evidence collection and retention which put doubt in the jurors' minds. The prosecutor should have never had O.J. try on the glove. Of course a leather glove will shrink when wet. There was the race issue. And lastly Johnny Cochran did a damn good job putting doubt in the juror's minds in regard to the evidence and testimony.

For many years when O.J. walked around town or played golf everyone thought, knew he was guilty. He was shunned by a lot of people and rightfully so. Then of course in 2007 he stupidly tried to "retrieve" his supposedly stolen sport's memorabilia from a dealer. I guess he thought if he could get away with murder, he could get away with anything. Karma didn't agree. He was charged and convicted of kidnapping and attempted robbery with the use of guns. He's appealed this sentence twice and lost both times. 66 year old O.J. is currently serving his time in prison with the earliest release date of 2017. He will be 70 years old before he's again a free man.

Mary Cummins of Animal Advocates is a wildlife rehabilitator licensed by the California Department of Fish and Game. Mary Cummins is also a licensed real estate appraiser in Los Angeles, California.

Mary Cummins, Mary K. Cummins, Mary Katherine Cummins, Mary Cummins-Cobb, Mary, Cummins, Cobb, real estate, appraiser, appraisal, instructor, teacher, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Pasadena, Brentwood, Bel Air, California, licensed, permitted, single family, condo, pud, hud, fannie mae, freddie mac, uspap, certified, residential, certified resident, apartment building, multi-family, commercial, industrial, expert witness, civil, criminal, orea, dre, insurance, bonded, experienced, bilingual, spanish, english, form, 1004, 2055, land, raw, acreage, vacant, insurance, cost, income approach, market analysis, comparative, theory, appraisal theory, cost approach, sales, matched pairs, plot, plat, map, diagram, photo, photographs, photography, rear, front, street, subject, comparable, sold, listed, active, pending, expired, cancelled, listing, mls, multiple listing service, claw, themls,