Dean Martin's Former Palm Springs Home Now An Abandoned Dump

He bought it in 1968. He and his 2nd wife Jeanne lived there until they divorced in 1973 and the house became her property. She owned it until she died in 1989, but it's not known if she lived there full time.

You'd think someone would have been able to snap this place up at a good price at some point and turned it back into a showplace. It seems in much better condition inside than outside.

It looks like a cheesy jersey shore rental from the 70s.

Is it for sale? Anyone know the address?

Fuck that, it looks like someone could just walk through the goddamn bedroom windows.

Seems very modest, especially for the neighborhood

This is where Dean lived when he died, on Maple Dr. in Beverly Hills. This house went on the market in 2017 for just under $28 million. Apparently it had been massively redone since Dean lived there.

This is another of Dean's properties in Palm Springs, called "The Tea Dance House". Now this is gorgeous.

Jeanne Martin actually died in 2016. It's odd that the house is empty, but even odder that new-ish trash cans are there.

Yep, you're right R8. I got the numbers wrong. She didn't die in 89, she was 89 when she died in 2016.

Some said Dean died alone and was found the next day by his house help. But Jeanne said she was with him when he died and had crawled into bed with him and held him.

Jeanne Martin is still the owner of record. How can property taxes in Palm Springs be less than $2,000 per year?

From the listing at R7, "known eponymously as 'the Tea Dance House.'" Oh, dear! /WTF?

About a block down from this, Sandra Dee and Bobby Darrin's place is abandoned and in ruins. My friends have a gorgeous midcentury right behind it.

Dean Martin had a “sad last days” moment. I’d see in a BH restaurant now and then, alone drinking and looking so so so sad. Patrons knew to leave him alone. I am only guessing here, but I heard the death of his son destroyed him.

R13 doesn't look "in ruins" to me

A few things. As someone else pointed the trash cans look like new cans. So does the ac unit. Someone obviously cleans the interior. The driveway would get a power wash and look great. It is a shame that the exterior has not had jack shit done to it in years. I could see Dino sitting by the pool all tan and shit. Last, what is with the metal pull up down in the back?

R10, I'm no real estate guru, but aren't property taxes based on the original selling price of the home? If Jeanne has owned it forever, the taxes wouldn't be as high as someone just buying it. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

Jeanne's daughter Gina is still alive at age 64 and would potentially be the sole heir. (Dean and Jeanne's son Ricci died three weeks before Jeanne, and golden child Dean Paul infamously died in the plane crash in '87.) I don't know if Dean's children with his first wife would've been in Jeanne's will, but they seemed to have a good relationship with her. Dean Paul also had a son with Olivia Hussey when he was married to her; it would be interesting to find out who actually inherited the house, and why it's not been kept up or sold. They could easily sell the house for $1 million+ as is, just based on the lineage.

R16, the metal pull-down thing in the back is installed often on homes that go unoccupied for a length of time. The last condo complex I lived in had a lot of snowbird owners, and most all of them had the pull-downs over their windows to prevent theft. It's odd--yet again--that there would only be one installed on this house, and on the back side. The ones in my condo complex had them over each window.

Maybe the pull down is to keep out light/heat. It's a pretty unremarkable looking house.

The property tax in California is based on the purchase price, because of Prop 13. If it was bought in the 80s, the property taxes would be very low. Not only because houses were cheaper then, but interest rates were high (which depressed prices) and Palm Springs was considered old fashioned at that point and no longer a big celeb place, while the snowbird retirees had moved to other towns with newer housing.

It's an original Alexander so there is some value there.

I think it was restored a while ago and turned into a rental, R13.

"I’d see in a BH restaurant now and then, alone drinking and looking so so so sad."

He was going out in public without his teeth and looked extra bad. I don't know how he ate in restaurants with no uppers and lowers, maybe he always drank dinner. Contrary to popular myth, Martin was indeed a big drinker, alcoholic by today's standards.

"I am only guessing here, but I heard the death of his son destroyed him."

That's what has been written. Dean didn't pay attention to Dino when he was a kid and rarely when he was an adult. Know that they were not great friends or close, EVER.

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