Frank Sinatra's former home on the market for the first time

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The 1951 house in Chatsworth, California where Frank Sinatra once lived has been publicly listed for the first time in its 60-year history. 

Dora Hutchinson, heir to the Chase Manhattan Bank fortune, commissioned Pereira & Luckman architects to build the house in the late 1940s, and it was finished in 1951. 

Sinatra lived in the four-bedroom house, called Farralone, and threw lavish star-studded parties with guests including Lucille Ball, Ava Gardner and Marilyn Monroe. The standalone guest house with its own pool was reputedly the site of rendezvous between Monroe and President John F. Kennedy.

"If walls could talk, this house has had more celebrities in it than just about any other house in Los Angeles," says Coldwell Banker Previews listing agent Lynn Teschner.

Judy Garland and Vincent Minelli renewed their wedding vows on the 5.6-hectare grounds, and Monroe's last photoshoot was at the property's pool. The grounds include an incipient vineyard and horse riding trails, and the property can accommodate 200 cars. 

Teschner is marketing the property with price hopes of US$12 million.