If this was Cold War East Berlin it would probably be called the death zone.

Source: http://www.crazydaysandnights.net

Easter

Not even a mile from the famed music festival in the desert are two separate compounds.

One is the famed home of a long time entertainer who was A+ list and continues to make tons of money even after death from the empire he established.

One of the men he groomed is someone all of you know.

There is a gap between the entertainer’s estate and a subdivision that will never be zoned for construction.

It is referred to in the compound as the gap.

If this was Cold War East Berlin it would probably be called the death zone.

This gap is the length of a football field and runs around the compound much the same way a moat would.

High walls prevent anyone from just walking into the gap.

For much of the year, it is just a place that, if you have enough money, people can rent out. It is very expensive to rent and no matter how much you pay, one of the homes is completely off limits.

That home is the nerve center of the board of The Bohemian Grove who use the desert compound each Easter to work out the final details for their summer ritual.

They also are known to try out various males and should things get a little rough or one of those males would like to run off during the night, the gap stops them cold.

Nothing gets past the gap.

The nerve center has lists of members and files on each and dirt on each.

It has countless servers filled with all kinds of information about all kinds of people.

Now, one added little tidbit to this.

I mentioned two compounds.

There is a tunnel between the entertainer compound and also a compound consisting of three homes built by a shell company of the company that is a huge part of the music festival.

The three homes and the entertainer compound are probably a good half mile apart, maybe a touch more, but there is a fully lit cement tunnel much like you would see underneath a football stadium that runs between the two locations.

It can easily fit several golf carts or small cars in the passageway.

Escape route for performers or a way for them to enjoy something more ominous courtesy of the Bohemian Grove board.

Music festival: Coachella

Long time entertainer: Merv Griffin

Groomed: Ryan Seacrest

Bohemian Grove is a restricted 2,700-acre (1,100 ha) campground located at 20601 Bohemian Avenue, in Monte Rio, California, United States, belonging to a private San Francisco–based gentlemen’s club known as the Bohemian Club. In mid-July each year, Bohemian Grove hosts a more than two-week encampment of some of the most prominent men in the world. – Source

How a Coachella party paradise got caught in a fierce tug-of-war

It’s a Sunday afternoon in April, and one of the most-hyped parties of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is in full swing at a plush estate in La Quinta.

Models are posing. Guests are Instagram-ing. Snoop Dogg is on stage, grasping a blunt and a microphone in the same hand. Off to one corner, partygoers are getting dizzy on a carnival ride borrowed from Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch.

This is #REVOLVEfestival 2018 – a gathering of good-looking people in good-looking places held annually during Coachella. Or as its organizers call it, “the hottest, the most epic, the hardest to get in party in the desert.”

The photogenic backdrop for today’s revelry is the Merv Griffin Estate, a sprawling compound that sleeps 26 people between its grand main house and a series of casitas. With a tranquil pond overlooking the Santa Rosa Mountains, it’s the kind of place more commonly used to stage weddings and retreats.

But behind the scenes, all is not well in this party paradise.

For almost two years, the house Jeopardy! built has been caught in a tug-of-war between the man that owns it and the men who turned it into a getaway for brides and birthdays.

And the lease signed by the feuding business partners – the reason why this compound became the event destination it is today – expires at the end of May.

On one side of the dispute is Vonclave, LLC, a company managed by Kevin Blessing and Clayton Baldwin. Since 2013, Vonclave (which rhymes with “enclave”) has been leasing Merv Griffin Estate from its owner and then renting it out for events.

On the other side is the owner of the compound, Merv Griffin Estate Investors, LP, which is managed by Mark Majerovic, the director of a Newport Beach-based real estate firm. Majerovic and his company plan to build 78 homes on a portion of the grounds.

Through Vonclave, Baldwin and Blessing sued Majerovic and his companies in 2016, saying he broke a 2013 agreement to sell the house to them.

Majerovic’s company responded in kind, firing off a lawsuit a few months later seeking to evict Blessing, Baldwin and Vonclave from the compound.

The two cases have been rolled into one and the combined lawsuit went to trial this spring. Next will be closing arguments – just as another party season in the desert comes to an end. – Read more here

Merv Griffin’s former desert retreat renting for $6,000 a night

Merv Griffin’s one-time retreat in La Quinta is up for rent, but it will set you back a pretty penny.

The 39-acre equestrian compound, which includes a 6,000-square-foot Moroccan-style house, four guest casitas, various staff quarters and apartments, horse facilities and a racetrack, is available for $6,000 a night.

Developed by the legendary entertainer in the 1980s, the property has been offered as a short- and long-term rental since it last sold for $7 million in 2013. It was originally priced at $14.5 million when it came to market in 2011.

Griffin, who died in 2007 at 82, used the gated estate to raise Arabian horses and thoroughbreds, as well as for entertaining and work. Among its features are grand formal areas, bright mosaic tile, lanterns and elaborate stone fireplaces. – Source