Las Vegas Legend Liberace’s Former LA Home for Sale
Posted on: December 1, 2025, 01:05h.
Last updated on: December 1, 2025, 01:21h.
- The San Fernando Valley home Liberace shared with his mother from 1953-1957 is now on the market
- Liberace’s mother and brother lived in the music-themed home after he relocated to Palm Springs
- Liberace moved to Vegas in 1974
The former LA home of legendary Las Vegas entertainer Liberace has hit the market for $3.195 million.
Built in 1953, the mid-century modern estate, located at 15405 Valley Vista Boulevard, Sherman Oaks, spans 3,907 feet with four bedrooms and four baths. Compass has the listing.
Liberace lived here with his mother, Frances Zuchowski Liberace, from 1953 until 1957, commuting to his Las Vegas residencies — first at the Last Frontier and then, starting in 1955, at the Riviera.
Set on a 17,800 square‑foot corner lot south of Ventura Boulevard, the L‑shaped residence showcases classic mid‑century design: dramatic ceilings, walls of glass, and seamless indoor‑outdoor flow.
Its most famous feature is the piano‑shaped swimming pool, complete with painted keys. Musical motifs dominate throughout — iron fencing with notes, and a front‑door transom designed as a musical staff.
By far the house’s most famous feature is a whimsical swimming pool fashioned in the shape of a piano, with keys painted on the deck.
Overexposure
Though he was the highest-earning performer on the Strip at $50K per week — $600K today – Liberace chose not to gate his property, as most celebrities did. Though he initially took pride in the decision, the house’s accessibility is believed to have motivated his move to Palm Springs.
Fans often scaled the fence and, in July 1957, Liberace’s mother was reportedly attacked in the house’s garage by two masked intruders — hours after Liberace testified in his $25 million libel suit against Confidential magazine for outing him as gay. Liberace wasn’t home at the time.
After Liberace relocated to Palm Springs, his brother George moved in to protect Frances, and Liberace continued visiting them well into the 1960s.
Vegas Connections
Nicknamed “Mr. Showmanship,” Liberace — born Władziu Valentino “Lee” Liberace on May 16, 1919, in Milwaukee to parents of Italian and Polish origin — was a child prodigy at classical piano who enjoyed a four-decade career.
Most of it was associated with the Las Vegas Strip, where he first appeared at the Last Frontier in 1944.
Known for over-the-top piano performances that incorporated everything from classical to pop music, Liberace is credited with influencing the careers of Elton John, Lady Gaga, and Michael Jackson.
In 1974, Liberace created a 14,393‑square‑foot Las Vegas mansion by joining two houses together near UNLV. In 1979, he opened the Liberace Museum on East Tropicana Avenue. Dedicated to the glitzy outfits, pianos, candelabra, cars, and jewelry he collected over the decades, it expanded in 1988 but closed in 2010 due to declining attendance.
The Liberace Foundation still manages his collection, now housed at Thriller Villa and the Liberace Garage.
Liberace died on Feb. 4, 1987, of complications from AIDS, having been diagnosed with HIV in August 1985.
Portions of Karen Avenue in Las Vegas, between Maryland Parkway and Joe W. Brown Drive, were renamed Liberace Way in 2022.
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