{"id":56838,"date":"2026-09-24T23:01:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T23:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=56838"},"modified":"2026-09-24T23:01:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T23:01:41","slug":"mariska-hargitays-three-remarkable-homes-from-the-famous-pink-palace-to-her-manhattan-family-townhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=56838","title":{"rendered":"Mariska Hargitay\u2019s Three Remarkable Homes \u2014 From the Famous Pink Palace to Her Manhattan Family Townhouse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Long before Mariska Hargitay became known worldwide as Olivia Benson on <em>Law &amp; Order: SVU<\/em>, she spent part of her childhood in one of Hollywood\u2019s most extravagant residences: the legendary Pink Palace. Her parents, Jayne Mansfield and Mickey Hargitay, purchased the Mediterranean-style Holmby Hills mansion in 1958 for $76,000 and transformed it into an unforgettable pink wonderland. The three-and-a-half-acre estate featured elaborate interiors, heart motifs, a heart-shaped swimming pool bearing the words \u201cI love you Jaynie,\u201d and a bathroom covered in pink shag with a heart-shaped tub. Mansfield lived there until her death in 1967, when Hargitay was only three. The mansion eventually passed through several celebrity owners before being demolished in 2002. Yet pieces of that childhood home survived. Hargitay\u2019s brother rescued her mother\u2019s double sinks, which she later installed in her own bathroom, while her mother\u2019s piano eventually made its way into Hargitay\u2019s Manhattan home. She described receiving the piano as getting \u201ca piece of my mother back.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another deeply meaningful property was the Los Angeles house Mickey Hargitay built on Warbler Way. He later gave the Spanish-style home to Mariska in 1996, and it became connected to one of the most emotional revelations of her life. At 25, Hargitay learned that Mickey was not her biological father; her biological father was entertainer Nelson Sardelli. She later recalled confronting Mickey in tears while he was building her house, calling the coincidence a powerful metaphor. She nevertheless continued to regard Mickey as her father. Years later, she and husband Peter Hermann created a family of their own in a six-floor Upper West Side Manhattan townhouse. The renovated property featured multiple bedrooms, dramatic living spaces, a chef\u2019s kitchen, landscaped terraces, a rooftop atelier, and an elevator\u2014something viewers debating the home\u2019s many stairs apparently overlooked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long before Mariska Hargitay became known worldwide as Olivia Benson on Law &amp; Order: SVU, she spent part of her childhood in one of Hollywood\u2019s most extravagant&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":56839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":6,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56840,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56838\/revisions\/56840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}