Hot Property: A 'castle' with a tragic history
LOS ANGELES - High on an Alhambra hilltop, the French chateau-style mansion owned by Phil Spector - and where actress Lana Clarkson was slain - is for sale at $5.5 million.
Called the Pyrenees Castle, the eerie estate dates to 1926, when French immigrant Sylvester Dupuy erected the home to mimic the castles he saw as a child in his native country. The house was divided into apartments in the 1940s before a Chinese investor bought it and remodeled in the '80s.
Spector, an influential producer famous for his "wall of sound" recording technique, paid $1.1 million for the home in 1998, describing it to Esquire as "a beautiful and enchanting castle in a hick town where there is no
