TheHealy House at 565, formerly 625 Perugia Way in theBel Air district ofLos Angeles was built in 1949 by the Modernist architectLloyd Wright, son ofFrank Lloyd Wright for a P.J. Healy. He then sold it toPrince Aly Khan, who lived there in 1959, coinciding with the last year of his marriage toRita Hayworth. The next owner was theShah of Iran, who purchased it in 1960 only to rent it toElvis Presley, who used the home during the periods from 1961 to 1962 and then again from 1964 to late 1965. As such, it was the site ofThe Beatles only meeting with Presley on 27 August 1965.[1][2][3]
A letter writer to theLos Angeles Times in 1998 described the house as offering "...a graceful and optimistic view of the future: a Usonian ranch house nestled in the bowl of a concrete flying saucer that hovers over the golf course below" and its replacement as a "kitschy and grandiose neo-baroque structure".[2]
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