Nip/Tuck Julian McMahon lists mother Lady Sonia’s second Bellevue Hill home
Nip/Tuck star Julian McMahon has listed the long-time home of his mother, the late Lady (Sonia) McMahon. The property has been listed for March 24 auction with $6 million-plus hopes by the executors of the estate. Sonia McMahon, the widow of former prime minister Sir William McMahon, bought the building block for $3 million in 1991 and subsequently constructed a French Riviera-inspired residence on its 1252-square-metre holding.
The four-bedroom house has large entertainment areas plus lawn and pool, cabana and a sauna.
It has a northerly aspect and some harbour views from its hillside Victoria Road vantage point.
The house was briefly in the headlines in 1996 after 30 alterations were carried out without council permission.
It’s been listed through Sally Hampshire of Laing+Simmons Double Bay and Victoria Morish of Di Jones Real Estate. Internet advertising for the property was posted this week.
It’s been rented over the past few years. The house is furnished as Sonia left it.
Sonia McMahon was 77 years old when she died in April 2010. Her husband, who was prime minister between 1971 and the December 1972 election, died in 1988 aged 80. She’d held onto her previous nearby empty 1920s Drumalbyn Road, Bellevue Hill home. Last June Julian and his two sisters secured $9 million from the sale of their late mother’s earlier Sydney residence.
The Australian actor and former fashion model grew up in the Bellevue Hill home, which was bought in 1968, the year of his birth. Julian has an older sister, Melinda, and a younger sister, Deborah.
No doubt the next eventual listing by the executors will be Lady McMahon’s Palm Beach weekender. It cost $975,000 in 1993.
