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12. Buyer Found For Dick Clark's 'Flintstones' Home

http://www.forbes.com/sites/zillow/2014/12/31/dick-clark-flintstones-home/

If you want to live like Dick Clark, you might have to live like Fred Flintstone too. Dick Clark’s unique stone cave-like home has finally found a buyer after three years on the market and for 50 percent off.

The television personality known for hosting his iconic “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” and “American Bandstand” lived at 10124 Pacific View Rd in Malibu for many years. And Pacific views it does have, with stunning sunsets over the water and 360 degree views of the Channel Islands, Boney Mountains and the city lights. The romantic master suite is specifically designed to take advantage of the sunsets.

First listed in March 2012, about a month before Clark died, the asking price for the stone masterpiece was $3.5 million. The home not only looks stone-age from the outside, but inside as well. Nearly every inch looks like a stone cave with rough-hewn cabinets and doors, odd-shaped windows and hardly a straight line in sight.



Though small at only 1 bedroom and 1.5 bathrooms, the house is perched in the middle of 22.89 acres with direct access to trails on national parklands as well. The beach is only a few minutes away.

Living here might be an acquired taste, but one cannot argue with the uniqueness and Hollywood history of the property. The new owner picked up the so-called “Flintstones House” for $1,777,777.