Betty White’s Brentwood house TORN DOWN after selling for over $10.6M in June

Betty White’s home in Los Angeles’ posh Brentwood neighborhood was, as expected, torn down after it sold in June for a staggering $10.678 million.

The Golden Girls icon died last New Year’s Eve at her other home in the quaint central California town of Carmel-By-The-Sea, just weeks shy of her 100th birthday.

His official Instagram, which is now run by his assistant Kiersten Mikelas, revealed Saturday that the Los Angeles home was demolished.

She first moved into the lavish Brentwood estate in 1968 with her third husband, Allen Ludden, whom she was married to until his death in 1981.

Kiersten broke the news that the house had been demolished by posting a photo of the lot on Instagram, where all that was left of the old building was rubble and a chimney.

‘Hello everyone! I owe him a post (or two) I know. This is such a busy time of year and the anniversary of Betty’s death is coming up in a way I hadn’t anticipated,” she wrote. Her Brentwood house is no more (except for the fireplaces which will be gone before long). I promise a wonderful tribute to our most wonderful lady very soon!

Spread out in a 3,029-square-foot home, the elegant two-story home featured five bedrooms, six bathrooms, a pool, and an enviable view of the Getty Museum.

Betty moved into the Brentwood house as her marital home with Allen, but clung to it for the four decades between his and her death.

His beachfront property in Carmel sold this April for $10.775 million, nearly $3 million above its asking price. architectural compendium revealed.

That same month, the Brentwood house went on the market with an asking price of $10.575 million, according to the Los Angeles Times.

The Los Angeles property also managed to exceed expectations and was finally sold in June making it TMZ reported was $10,678 million.

At the time of the sale, it was widely reported that the new owners of Betty’s Brentwood home would likely demolish it and replace it with a new building.

The original house was built in the 1950s, but Betty and Allen only moved into it late in the following decade, five years after they were married.

Betty found the ‘love of my life’ in Allen, a game show host with whom she was happily married for nearly two decades until he died of stomach cancer in 1981, just four years before she began starring in The Golden Girls.

He joked with Piers Morgan about CNN that her first two marriages were ‘trials’, noting that in her day ‘you didn’t sleep with a guy until you married him’.

It took until 1961 for him to meet Allen, who was already hosting the hit game show Password in New York City.

Allen had been left a single father of three when his first wife, Margaret McGloin, died of cancer, the same week he and Betty met.

Betty, who was also an expert on the game show circuit, attracted Allen’s attention instantly, but it took several propositions to tire her out.

They continued to work together on stage while he courted her, starring together in the plays Critics’ Choice and Janus.

During Critics’ Choice on Cape Cod, he proposed to her for the first time, Betty told the television academyrevealing that she thought he was joking.

He proposed again, this time in earnest with a diamond ring over dinner, but Betty turned him down again as she did not want to leave her career in Los Angeles to move to New York, where Password required her to stay.

‘When I think about how crazy she was…’ Betty said in amazement years later when she thought about how long she waited to marry him.

Allen continued to propose to her and visit her in Los Angeles, and at Easter 1963 he sent her a stuffed bunny with “beautiful diamond and sapphire earrings in its ears.”

The night she got the stuffed animal, he called her and she finally agreed to marry him, ultimately “regretting that year I wasted saying no.” She would have given anything to get him back. It was a love story. We really had, we missed 18 years for three days, but it was still a honeymoon.

Being Mrs. Allen Ludden also left her with three young stepchildren, this after years of avoiding motherhood to focus on her career and even ending her second marriage over her husband’s desire that she become a stay-at-home mother. .

However, she revealed in her memoir that she and the children “got along very well”. So big that I was affectionately called ‘Dragon Lady’.

She wrote in the book, which came out in 2011: “Even after all these years, we love each other very much, and I’m so proud of the children this career girl inherited.”

Then in 1981, four years before The Golden Girls began, she lost Allen to stomach cancer when she was just 63.

She exploited her loss for an episode of Golden Girls in which her character Rose Nylund shares the story of the heart attack that took her husband’s life.

The episode’s director, Lex Passaris, said Close: ‘Rose tells a story about the death of her husband Charlie, and Betty is basically talking about Allen.’

He recalled, “Betty’s voice cracked and she took a deep breath and said, ‘I’d give anything to get that year of my life back.’