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The four-bedroom home sits at the end of a gated cul-de-sac in the Bird Streets above the Sunset Strip, and its listing calls it, simply, the Dolly Parton house. It is the first time the property has come up for sale in 25 years, according to the multiple listing service entry filed by Nourmand & Associates in Beverly Hills. What $7.95 million buys The listing describes a two-story house of 4,689 square feet on a lot of about 15,127 square feet, a little over a third of an acre. Glass walls in the living and dining rooms fold open onto a terrace with views that run from downtown Los Angeles to the Pacific. There is a heated pool, a spa, a library that doubles as a media room, and three fireplaces. Upstairs, the main bedroom suite comes with its own coffee bar, two bathrooms, a steam shower, an office or gym, a private deck and a second spa. A path labeled a Zen trail climbs to a garden at the top of the lot. The kitchen carries Miele double ovens and a 48-inch Sub-Zero refrigerator. Fans hoping to walk through Parton’s rooms will be disappointed. The house was built in 1977 but rebuilt in 2009 and upgraded since, so very little of what the couple knew in the 1980s survives. From $750,000 to $7.95 million Property accounts of the home’s history give this sequence of sales: 1985: Parton and Dean buy it for $750,000. 1990: they sell it for $1.2 million, a gain of $450,000, or 60%, in five years. 2001: the current owner pays $2.05 million. 2026: listed at $7.95 million. Run the numbers and the asking price is 10.6 times what Parton paid 41 years ago, and 3.9 times the 2001 price. Spread across the house’s 4,689 square feet, it works out to about $1,695 per square foot. If it sells at the asking price, the seller’s gain over 25 years would be $5.9 million before costs. Why Dolly Parton wanted a Los Angeles base The timing of the 1985 purchase makes sense. Parton had become a film star with 9 to 5 in 1980, followed by The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and Rhinestone, and she received her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1984. Between 1981 and 1985 she also scored twelve Top 10 country hits, half of them No. 1s, a run that included the second chart-topping life of I Will Always Love You, which we revisited in our story on how the song reached No. 1 on the US country chart twice. Her real home base never moved. The couple bought land in Brentwood, Tennessee, in 1972 and built the house there where they lived for decades. Dean, who stayed famously out of the spotlight through 58 years of marriage, died in 2025; Parton died on August 25, 2026, at 80. The neighborhood The Bird Streets take their name from roads such as Oriole, Thrasher and Warbler that wind up the slopes north of the Sunset Strip, in the 90069 ZIP code shared with West Hollywood. The listing’s directions send buyers north on Doheny Drive, right on Oriole and on to the end of the cul-de-sac. More celebrity stories are in our Entertainment section. The listing showed the home as active after 42 days on the market, with the latest update dated October 19, 2026. Further reading Wikipedia: Dolly Parton Image: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons This article was produced with AI assistance and reviewed by our Editorial Desk. How we work.", "markdown": "https://badiyaa.com/dolly-parton-hollywood-hills-home-sale.md" }