Kings Point mansion inspired by France’s Versailles now on the market at $35M

10 Spring Knoll, a 26,600-square-foot bayfront estate on the North Shore inspired by France’s Palais de Versailles and featured in the 1993 film “Carlito’s Way,” has hit the market again seeking $35 million, according to the Daily Voice Plus. Construction on the home in the affluent enclave of Kings Point, a village within Great Neck, started in 1993, the same year that the movie starring Al Pacino and Sean Penn was released. The DVP, along with the Robb Report, noted that “Carlito’s Way” showed a beachfront party as a shell of the mansion rose in the background. Construction was completed in 2002. The couple who built the home sought to emulate Old World opulence by sourcing marble from Italy and the same quarry that supplied Versailles, obtained a 400-year-old Parquet de Versailles flooring plan from a French château and a marble fountain from the Rothschilds’ Villa Ephrussi in the south of France. The home has six bedrooms, seven bathrooms, 10 half-bathrooms, a hand-painted ceiling with gold leaf and floor-to-ceiling windows looking out over Manhasset Bay. Other amenities include a 12-seat home theater and a gym, library and billiards room walled with gilded French Cordoba leather. The grounds on the 3-acre property also have an infinity pool with Italian blue marble and a long deepwater dock. The property, whose annual property taxes are reportedly almost $102,000, had first listed for $35 million, but then had its ask increased to $50 million in October 2018, before coming down again, according to the Island Now. Jason Friedman of Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty has the listing. [DVP]