Chuck Lorre Buys Bel Air Mansion for $28 Million

A mansion of the Hollywood Regency style has found a high-profile buyer nearly six months after hitting the market.

Television producer Chuck Lorre–the creator of hit sitcoms “The Big Bang Theory” and “Two and a Half Men,”among others–bought the estate at 218 Strada Corta Road in the Bel Air enclave for $27.5 million, Robb Report reported.

That’s down from the original asking price of $31.5 million, but almost $10 million more than what architect Mark Rios and endocrinologist Guy Ringler bought the house for in 2021. After that purchase, the house underwent an extensive makeover that was featured in Architectural Digest.

The property has a famed architectural history dating back the better part of a century. The home was originally designed in the late 1940s by famed modernist architect John Elgin Woolf and was once his personal home.

The fully renovated home includes six bedrooms and eight bathrooms across 8,400 square feet stretching over multiple levels. The entry features Pullman doors — common in the Hollywood Regency era — as well as a glass-covered foyer overlooking a central courtyard. The living area inside includes a cocktail lounge complete with a lacquered fiberglass bar, while a buyer can find some quiet in a library and media room with a carved marble fireplace and built-in bookshelves.

Other Hollywood Regency touches include an antique mirrored ceiling with a skylight over the formal dining room as well as a dark ebony kitchen featuring high-end touches like Bulthaup cabinetry and a Lacanche range.

The primary suite upstairs features a private balcony with two walk-in closets and two bathrooms. The “King of Sitcoms” will have access to a Moroccan-themed lounge, an office, a wine cellar and a gym; outside, guests can enjoy a sunken fire pit area, koi pond and stone walkway.

The Bel Air manse isn’t the only home in Lorre’s name. Since the mid-1990s, he’s maintained a home in the Pacific Palisades that he bought for $2.6 million; in 2020, he snapped up the property next door for $9.5 million. In 2011, he also bought Tony Danza’s oceanfront home in Malibu for $8 million.

— Chris Malone Méndez