Mommie Dearest Is Moving: Peek Inside Faye Dunaway’s Modest LA Digs

Academy Award winner Faye Dunaway lives in a very nice, but relatively modest house. This duplex in West Hollywood, which she bought for $315,000, according to Curbed, has been her main residence since 1998. There are four bedrooms and three bathrooms and it sits on a large lot that’s walled off from prying eyes by giant some hedges. Asking price; $1.75 million. There are all sorts of stories about Dunaway’s famous on-set fits and “complicated nature”. My favorite story came up recently on a post about Anjelica Huston. Her hairdresser on the Adams Family films nicknamed Huston’s wig for the film, “Faye Dunaway” – because “it was so difficult to work with.”

These quotes below came from the comments section on Curbed LA. All comment sections should be taken with a grain of salt (and usually a shot of whiskey) but these are not mean, they seem to be based in fact:

“I used to live down the block from her and used to bike past her place every day, frequently seeing her berating her gardener about every little detail. She definitely wanted the privacy hedges to grow faster – she finally gave up and installed privacy gates. And if I dared to cheerily say ‘Hi, Faye,’ I’d get the stink eye. (Yes, I should have said Ms. Dunaway, but she was my neighbor) I had heard from friends that she had lost most of her money, so bye-bye NYC luxury residence and Hollywood Hills mansion, hello little duplex on Spaulding (which hadn’t gentrified really, when she bought the place). Always interesting.”

“I was living about a block away from this property when she purchased it and rehabbed it. It’s actually two Spanish bungalows on one lot, which is the case with many properties on Warning or Willoughby in that area. It was my understanding that she had sold her larger house in Weho to finance the movie bio of Maria Callas, which she had purchased and done as a one woman play. Her son Liam lived in the rear house, she lived in the front house. I was witness to several ‘Mommy Dearest’ moments while out walking my dogs: Once during the rehab where she lined up all the construction workers on the front lawn (before the hedges where planted) and dressed them down about the quality of their work. Another time where she was giving a poor taxi driver the performance of her life about what a a-hole he was for not pulling up in the driveway, being slow on picking up her huge load of suitcases, didn’t he know who she was, giving him directions to LAX and yelling at him to hurry up before the paparazzi saw her (not kidding!). All I was missing was the popcorn – they were amazing performances. Don’t think she was able to get the Callas project ever of the ground, too bad – she could play her in her sleep.”