{"id":42420,"date":"2023-10-01T07:01:51","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T07:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/01\/pia-zadora-douglas-fairbanks-home-was-filled-with-ghosts-and-termites\/"},"modified":"2023-10-01T07:01:51","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T07:01:51","slug":"pia-zadora-douglas-fairbanks-home-was-filled-with-ghosts-and-termites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/01\/pia-zadora-douglas-fairbanks-home-was-filled-with-ghosts-and-termites\/","title":{"rendered":"Pia Zadora: Douglas Fairbanks' home was filled with ghosts and termites"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Pia Zadora claims she demolished Douglas Fairbanks\u2019 home because it was infested with \u201cghosts\u201d and \u201ctermites\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Pia Zadora’s Pickfair Manor was infested<\/p>\n

In 1998, the \u2018Hairspray\u2019 star and her first husband Meshulam Riklis bought Pickfair Manor in Beverly Hills – where<\/p>\n

the Hollywood icon and wife Mary Pickford famously through lavish dinner parties in the 1920s for the likes of Charlie Chaplin<\/a>, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, H.G. Wells, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Albert Einstein – but sparked outrage by demolishing the property and building a new house in the grounds.<\/p>\n

However, Pia has insisted they did what needed to be done to the property.<\/p>\n

She told the US edition of Closer magazine: \u201cI never wanted Pickfair. Meshulam wanted to leave me this legacy, but my kids swore to me there were ghosts. And there were termites. <\/p>\n

\n“I wouldn\u2019t tent it [for extermination] because I didn\u2019t want the chemicals. So someone said: \u2018Tear it down\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nShe went on to defend the controversial decision, adding: \u201cLook it was my house – suck it! But it never felt like home. Too much marble. Too many Picassos.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nPia went on to split from businessman Meshulam – who she married in 1977 and divorced in 1993 – and he kept the house.<\/p>\n

\nThe pair remained close until his death in 2019 and he even invited her back to Pickfair along with her third husband Michael Jeffries when they needed somewhere to stay after their own house flooded.<\/p>\n

\nShe explained: \u201cHe spoke at both of my [next two] weddings and called my [current] husband, Michael, his husband-in-law. When our house flooded, he invited is to move back to Pickfair and gave us the master bedroom during our construction.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nPia isn\u2019t the only one who claims the house was haunted – previous owner Mary also suggested she\u2019d experienced paranormal activity there.<\/p>\n

\nIn a 1932 newspaper interview, she said: \u201cI am a sound sleeper, but I could not sleep under these noises which sounded like the tramping of heavy feet. I sat up in bed and addressed myself to the ghost, \u2018I wouldn\u2019t treat you this way,\u2019 I said. \u2018It isn\u2019t ladylike. I don\u2019t expect to be treated in this manner. The noises ceased.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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