A Beverly Hills home that Diane Keaton renovated and sold to Ryan Murphy asks $25M—with her touches still intact
A 1920s Spanish Colonial Revival in Beverly Hills once home to Madonna, meticulously restored by Diane Keaton and later the residence of “Glee” creator Ryan Murphy has listed for $25 million, The Post has learned.
Located at 820 North Roxbury Drive, the approximately 8,434-square-foot home was originally designed in 1927 by Ralph C. Flewelling, the architect behind Beverly Hills’ City Hall.
But it was Diane Keaton, who died this month at the age of 79 from pneumonia, who especially stands out in the home’s history. Beyond a respected actress, she was also known as a prolific home renovator and flipper — a successful side career many didn’t know she had.
When Keaton bought the home in 2007 for $8.1 million, she enlisted longtime collaborator Stephen Shadley to help restore and transform it into a soulful yet updated retreat.
She brought back the home’s architectural character with soaring beamed ceilings, archways, terracotta tile and carved wooden details — while infusing it with her personal sensibility.
“Diane was one of the most prolific architectural and design minds that we’ve ever seen in the real estate community,” Rayni Williams, who is marketing the property alongside her husband and co-agent, Branden Williams of the Beverly Hills Estates, told The Post. “There are only a very small handful of people that had her aesthetic.”
Keaton turned the home’s grand entry hall into a library, a hallmark of her style.
“You walk into the foyer, which is a library with seating area, and you’re really enveloped in Diane’s energy because it greets you and that’s untouched,” Rayni said. “She loved books and she loved to read … you feel her very much, her heart and soul, immediately.”
She also transformed the kitchen, creating a vaulted, beam-lined space anchored by a fireplace and an oversized farm table.
“Her eye for architecture was impeccable,” Rayni added of Keaton. “She took Spanish Revival and kind of made it a farmhouse kitchen, but then also brought back the Spanish hacienda vibe of it. She just took risks — in her acting, her fashion and in design.”
Even the landscaping bears Keaton’s flair for function-meets-defiance.
When Beverly Hills codes called for open front yard visibility, “she put all this cacti and basically did this whole cacti installation instead of the hedge … throwing it back at them,” Branden said.
Keaton purchased the home from Madonna, who owned it briefly.
In 2010, Keaton sold it to Ryan Murphy for $10 million, after initially listing it for $12.99 million in 2009. Murphy later sold it for $16.25 million to its current owners, Seth and Cailin Wunder — a private equity executive and an artist, respectively.
Murphy once told Architectural Digest the home’s “colorful tilework” appealed to him, but he ultimately traded the historical charm for a more minimal Brentwood property. The Wunders, by contrast, embraced its expressive layers.
“Everything is still in Diane’s design,” Rayni noted.
For Cailin Wunder, 820 Roxbury was more than real estate. It was a destination years in the making.
“I remember seeing it for the first time in the pages of Architectural Digest, the 2008 issue,” she recalled in a sponsored editorial. “She had restored it so thoughtfully. I remember thinking, one day, that will be home.”
“It’s a space where everything I love — art, history, craftsmanship — comes together,” she said.
Now, several years later, the Wunders are ready to move on.
“Cailin is an artist … she moves a lot. She gets what she calls the three- or four-year itch,” Rayni said. “Even though I think she’s very emotionally into this home and in love with it, her creative eye is driving her to do another house.”
The six-bedroom, nine-bathroom estate — now framed by lush landscaping, a pool and spa, a guest house and a sports court — is being positioned as a “legacy property,” according to the listing, where “Hollywood glamour meets modern luxury.”
But it’s not the celebrity provenance alone that gives the home its main selling point.
“This is like your truest house out of all the houses that [Diane] did,” Branden said. “That just really shows her true style.”
“She was just one of a kind in all areas of her life,” Rayni said.
