Elvis and Priscilla Presley’s honeymoon home sells for $5.65M

The house the place Elvis and Priscilla Presley honeymooned has bought -- and never for a tune.

The house the place a sure crooner and an iconic actress celebrated their nuptials has a brand new proprietor. 

Certainly, this midcentury-modern compound in Palm Springs, California — the place Elvis and Priscilla Presley honeymooned in 1966 — has discovered a purchaser simply six weeks after itemizing. The abode bought to the previous girls’s health clothes line proprietor Nancy Cirillo, who paid Seattle-based buyers Dan Bridge and Paul Armistead’s full $5.65 million asking value, the Wall Road Journal reported. 

“You stroll in, and it wraps round you. It was fairly simple to like,” mentioned Cirillo of the house’s “groovy, horny, odd” structure and enchantment. The 4,700-square-foot four-bedroom received Cirillo not with its Man in Black affiliation — however with its curved, cornerless design. 

Compass agent Marc Sanders, who represented each the customer and vendor, advised the Journal that the sellers acquired a number of affords for the property. “[With] the quantity of curiosity this home acquired, you wouldn’t have thought” we have been in a softer market, mentioned Sanders. 

An aerial view of the property.

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Midcentury particulars abound all through.

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A eating space.

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The house not too long ago underwent a renovation.

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The house acquired its full asking value.

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The house was constructed with a deal with curving partitions.

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The property’s uniquely formed pool.

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One in all 4 bedrooms.

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The house has 5 loos.

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Elvis Presley sits cheek to cheek along with his bride, the previous Priscilla Ann Beaulieu, following their wedding ceremony Could 1, 1967.

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“The spaceship-like dynamic winged roof line shelters 4 round pods with the middle of the home fanning out from the dramatic stepped waterfall,” its itemizing famous, as The Submit beforehand reported.

By way of carved-wood double-height doorways, the nostalgically futuristic lodging results in a “sunken celebration pad” composed of stone partitions, glass and a floating fireside. Pure daylight abounds all through, and the open-format front room overlooks a coated eating room and a poolside lounge. The first suite with an statement deck-level balcony and a round tub is situated up a grand staircase. The opposite bedrooms additionally function ensuite baths, and two even have a terrace. 

Bridge and Armistead put the property in the marketplace following a renovation, which included the restoration of assorted particulars, together with the stone and terrazzo flooring. 

Priscilla, 77, and Elvis have been married for six years. They divorced in 1973.