Ex-NFL Participant Promoting Richard Pryor’s Former Residence For Over $4M

Rashard Mendenhall, a former NFL participant turned Hollywood author, is promoting his lavish property … which simply occurs to be the enduring former house of comedy legend Richard Pryor.

Rashard, who performed 6 seasons as a working again with the Pittsburgh Steelers and Arizona Cardinals, simply put the 6-bedroom property in the marketplace for $4,236,000.

Richard lived there for a number of years after buying the house means again in 1976 … and it is the place he as soon as hosted Barbara Walters for a well-known sit-down interview.

It is also the place Pryor infamously doused himself in rum and lit himself on hearth whereas freebasing cocaine. Pryor suffered extreme burns on greater than 50% of his physique and referenced the incident in his comedy particular “Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip.”

The property is tucked away within the unique Sherwood Forest neighborhood in Northridge — exterior L.A. within the Valley — with 9,000 sq. toes of dwelling area on a 2.2-acre plot of land.

The principle residence contains 4 bedrooms, a proper eating room, a gourmand kitchen and a library … plus sport and billiard rooms.

There is a separate visitor home and a separate pool home … every with its personal kitchen … in addition to knowledgeable dance studio/health club area that may be become a recording or manufacturing studio.

As well as, the sprawling property options an workplace, kids’s playhouse, 3-car storage and a kennel. The property can be a authorized horse property, for many who are so inclined.

Among the many resort-style facilities … a 65-foot pool and spa with a cascading waterfall, tennis courtroom, placing inexperienced, sauna, wine closet and a barbeque pavilion.

The meticulously maintained grounds embrace a citrus grove and a vegetable backyard … and the property sits behind a wall and a gate.

Rashard purchased the place again in 2017 for $2.5 million … a pair years after he retired from the NFL and started writing “Ballers” episodes for HBO.

There’s that means behind the $4,236,000 asking value, for Rashard, not less than — his profession NFL speeding complete stands at 4,236 yards. We’ll see if potential patrons are inclined to stay to his sentimental pricing.