Mark Ronson Spins Los Feliz Villa to Marc Lasry

By Mark David

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – Music producer and international DJ Mark Ronson, son of music manager Laurence Ronson and jewelry designing socialite Ann Dexter-Jones, has taken in almost $4.8 million on the sale of a 1930s Spanish Revival villa in an affluent area of Los Feliz in Los Angeles. The multiple-Grammy-winning musician, who splits his time between London, New York and , purchased the handsome residence about 4½ years ago, around the time he and his now ex-wife, French actress and singer Joséphine de La Baume, split up. The buyer of the house, records reveal, is billionaire financier Marc Lasry.

Set on about a third of an acre, enshrouded in a verdant fantasia of tropical gardens and recently fawned over in the glossy pages of Architectural Digest , the main residence was designed by architect William Asa Hudson, best known for his work on the bungalows at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Between the main house and two-story poolside guesthouse, there are five bedrooms and 7.5 bathrooms in approximately 6,200 idiosyncratically stylishly square feet.

Original floor tiles enhance the gold-ceilinged entrance hall where a wrought iron-railed staircase curves up to second-floor bedrooms. The commodious, step-down living room features a fireplace and carved-wood beams across the ceiling, and the dining room is wrapped in whimsical, animal-print wallpaper. Other rooms include a family room with lacquered green walls, a quaint library with extra-deep shelves to accommodate albums and a vaguely vintage eat-in kitchen with marble counters and high-end designer appliances. Bedrooms include a main floor staff suite and a sprawling, second-floor master suite that incorporates a spacious sitting room, a fireplace and a crisply modern, chandelier-lit bathroom.

Branden Williams and Rayni Williams of The Williams & Williams Estates Group at Hilton & Hyland held the listing; Lasry was repped by Sheena Sadaghiani of Keller Williams .