Construction has been halted on Jeff Bezos’ Beverly Hills megamansion as his application to expand the property in excess of 15,000 square feet is pending approval, The Post has learned.
An initial application for a Hillside R-1 Permit was submitted in 2021, but denied on the technical basis of incompletion.
It was later approved until Bezos, 59, submitted a recent request so as to add a “game court fence with lighting,” filed in January of this yr, project records show.
However the Amazon founder’s application was once more denied on the idea of incompletion.
“Now he submits a recent application for a unique scope on that construction, and he can’t construct with the scope related to the request,” Senior City Council planner Judy Gutierrez told The Post.
“The Hillside R-1 Permit submitted in January 2023 has not been scheduled for a Planning Commission hearing,” Gutierrez added, which suggests renovations will remain on hold indefinitely until a hearing is about.
Bezos’ initial 2021 application, which scored city planning approval last April, submitted requests to construct a recent pool house, a powder room and retaining partitions — adding around 1,000 square feet to the 28,000-square-foot mansion.
The house’s previous owner, film and music industry magnate David Geffen, 80, had obtained permits to permit the utmost allowable floor area to exceed 15,000 square feet, but not beyond that.
“The utmost allowable floor area could be 69,139 square feet,” in keeping with a report from the Beverly Hills planning commission.
Photos obtained by The Post show aerial shots of the house in a standstill, with construction equipment on the bottom but no employees.
The Post has reached out to Bezos’ reps for comment.
Bezos dropped $165 million for the nearly 10-acre property back in 2020.
However the move doesn’t seem to affect his latest blow, which showed that the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon’s net value dropped $57 billion last yr.
That was resulting from a 38% drop in Amazon’s stock price as of March 10.
Generally known as the legendary Jack Warner Estate after the previous president of Warner Bros. Entertainment., the $165 million deal set a Los Angeles record until Marc Andreessen beat out Bezos’ record, paying $177 million for a sprawling 7-acre Malibu compound in 2021.
Previously, the title went to media executive Lachlan Murdoch, who paid $150 million for the Bel-Air estate generally known as “Chartwell,” which served because the Clampett residence in the favored Sixties TV show “The Beverly Hillbillies.”
The compound today features a three-story major house, a guest house, gym, a pergola and a security guard house.
The brand new pool house will likely be around 697 square feet in size. The powder room will likely be below ground.