--- description: 90-year-old Hugh Hefner will continue to live at the iconic estate. The buyer, Daren Metropoulos, is an investor and Hostess Brands owner title: The Playboy Mansion Will Be Sold to Its Next-Door Neighbor image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8a5aef5d59e378b3/698896aea988ca58466b820e/gettyimages-485235020.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [real estate](/tag/real-estate/) ## real estate Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # The Playboy Mansion Will Be Sold to Its Next-Door Neighbor  by [Raisa Bruner](/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 6, 2016 10:31 PM CUT  A general view of the Playboy Mansion at "The Transporter Refueled" Los Angeles screening held at The Playboy Mansion on August 25, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. A general view of the Playboy Mansion at "The Transporter Refueled" Los Angeles screening held at The Playboy Mansion on August 25, 2015 in Los Angeles, California.Michael Tran—Getty Images  by [Raisa Bruner](/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 6, 2016 10:31 PM CUT The Playboy Mansion, Hollywood’s ultimate party palace and scene of celebrity debauchery, is no longer up for sale. The five-acre property’s next-door neighbor has picked it up for an undisclosed price, the [Wall Street _Journal_ reports.](http://www.wsj.com/articles/playboy-mansions-neighbor-to-buy-the-property-1465231478 "undefined") Put on the market in January for $200 million — making it easily one of the most expensive residential listenings in U.S. history — the mansion comes with a curious caveat: 90-year-old Playboy founder Hugh Hefner has a life estate on the property, meaning that he’ll live out the rest of his days at the historic Holmby Hills house as the new owner’s roommate. That new owner is 32-year-old Daren Metropoulos, a private equity principal, owner of Hostess Brands, former co-CEO of Pabst Blue Ribbon, and son [of a billionaire](http://www.forbes.com/profile/c-dean-metropoulos/ "undefined"). “The heritage of this property transcends its celebrity and to have the opportunity to serve as its steward would be a true privilege,” Mr. Metropoulos told the WSJ of the 1927 estate. He also said he intends to combine his own adjacent home with the Playboy property after Hefner’s tenancy ends. Hefner’s company bought the property over [45 years ago](http://The Playboy Mansion, On Sale for $200M, Finds A New Owner "undefined") for about $1 million and has been leasing it back from Playboy Enterprises. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4359214/playboy-mansion-hugh-hefner-sale/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4359214/playboy-mansion-hugh-hefner-sale/"},"headline":"The Playboy Mansion Will Be Sold to Its Next-Door Neighbor","datePublished":"2016-06-06T22:31:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:33:02.418Z","description":"But it looks like the Playboy parties will go on","url":"https://time.com/4359214/playboy-mansion-hugh-hefner-sale/","keywords":["real estate","Newsfeed","celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8a5aef5d59e378b3/698896aea988ca58466b820e/gettyimages-485235020.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8a5aef5d59e378b3/698896aea988ca58466b820e/gettyimages-485235020.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Playboy Mansion Hosts Red Carpet Event For EuropaCorp's \"The Transporter Refueled\"","caption":"Playboy Mansion Hosts Red Carpet Event For EuropaCorp's \"The Transporter Refueled\"","creditText":"Michael Tran—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/real-estate/","name":"real estate"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4359214/playboy-mansion-hugh-hefner-sale/","name":"The Playboy Mansion Will Be Sold to Its Next-Door Neighbor"}}]}] ```