Abandoned LA mansion tied to bin Laden family and used as porn location taken off the market — after years of price cuts

In Los Angeles, a once-grand property owned by Ibrahim bin Laden — half-brother of nan precocious al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden — has been yanked disconnected marketplace aft failing to find a purchaser contempt years of value cuts, The Post has learned. 

The 7,100-square-foot Mediterranean-style villa, listed initially for $28 million successful 2021, saw its asking value autumn to $21.5 cardinal earlier being pulled from nan marketplace connected April 5. 

A root told The Post that 2 offers of important simplification from nan existent asking value came successful for nan spot — both of which aimed to tear it down. Nothing was finalized, and nan location exited nan market. The erstwhile listing had advertised nan residence arsenic 1 to bulldoze.

“This location will beryllium torn down astatine immoderate point,” nan root said. However, section records don’t show archiving for a forthcoming demolition and it isn’t clear if, should nan opinionated residence look nan wrecking ball, an quiet batch will yet return for sale.

What’s for certain: Severe vandalism and decades of neglect person rendered nan spot uninhabitable.

Built successful 1931 connected 1 of nan original ample Bel-Air tons developed by lipid magnate Alphonzo Bell, nan property boasts a storied past. 

In nan 1960s, it was location to Arthur Freed, nan Hollywood shaper down classics for illustration “Singin’ successful nan Rain” and “The Wizard of Oz.” 

Ibrahim bin Laden, 1 of 56 children of Saudi building magnate Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, acquired nan spot successful 1983 for $1.65 cardinal alongside his then-wife, Los Angeles socialite Christine Hartunian Sinay. 

The couple, who stock a daughter, Sibba Hartunian, maintained a lavish manner there, employing “full-time groundskeepers, family help, chauffeurs and backstage security,” according to Steve Coll’s book, “The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family successful nan American Century.”

The seven-bedroom, five-bathroom mansion — complete pinch a impermanent house, a greenhouse and a excavation — was abandoned aft nan Sept.11 panic attacks. 

Ibrahim, who was overseas astatine nan time, ne'er returned to nan US, wary of nan stigma attached to his surname. 

A erstwhile University of Southern California student who admitted he “never worked a time successful [his] life,” Ibrahim leased nan spot retired — and by 2010, it had go a porn filming location.

Despite its premier location — a short locomotion from nan iconic Hotel Bel-Air — nan estate’s information deteriorated. 

Boarded-up windows grounded to deter vandals, and nan interior fell into disrepair — pinch only sparse images disposable owed to its decrepit state. 

The listing highlighted its worth arsenic a “rare little Bel-Air batch pinch elevation and an elevated pad,” noting that nan value reflected nan onshore alone, arsenic nan location had been “ready for redoing, proprietor has not been present for complete 20 years.”