And finally… Duty of scare
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A couple who purchased a $3.2 million mansion are suing the brokers for failing to disclose that it featured in a popular horror TV show — plus, they add, it is actually haunted.
In 2015, Dr Ernst von Schwarz and Angela Oakenfold became the inadvertent owners of the Rosenheim Mansion at 1120 Westchester Place in Los Angeles, which starred in American Horror Story in 2011.
According to their lawsuit, the house has become a “macabre tourist attraction” for fans, who regularly “trespass, attempt to break in, and a significant nuisance”.
Their attorney, Doug Vanderpool, told The Real Deal that the sellers and brokers had a duty to disclose the building’s role in the show.
He added that the seller and brokers failed to mention the house was haunted by “two ghosts”, though this does not appear in the lawsuit.
In a 2011 interview, American Horror Story actor Evan Peters said of the mansion: “It’s just a creepy house, it’s so terrifying, with that wood everywhere. I would never, ever want to live in that house.”
Dr von Schwarz and Mrs Oakenfold say they do not plan to sell the mansion, but are seeking compensatory and punitive damages.
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