John Mayer impersonates Audemars Piguet holds an unique night with John Mayer to Celebrate most recent cooperation at an exclusive home on April 16, 2024 in Bel Air, Calif. Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for Audemars Piguet
John Mayer and supervisor McG (Family Switch) have actually collaborated to acquire among Hollywood’s most historical workshop great deals. According to The Hollywood Reporter, an agent for guitarist/singer Mayer verified that both are “under contract to buy Henson Studios.”
THR reported that the roughly $60M quote was a “dramatic reversal” for the well known residential or commercial property that was the previous home of A&M Studios and, prior to that, Charlie Chaplin Studio, and which was apparently being bid on by the debatable Church of Scientology, which currently possesses a variety of various other residential or commercial properties in the location.
Before Mayer and McG (birthed Joseph McGinty Nichol) stroked in, the residential or commercial property was apparently being circled around by Fab Factory Studios, a songs manufacturing firm run by father/son group Steven and Shaun Fabos; the senior Fabos is apparently a significant Scientology monetary fan and his kid was marked as an aggressive witness by the prosecution throughout Scientologist Danny Masterson’s rape test for altering his statement on the stand in assistance of the star that was punished to three decades behind bars in 2023.
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According to THR, the Fabos had a hang on the residential or commercial property, however when that went out Mayer, that currently has workplaces on the properties, stroked in to seal the deal. The great deal is an item Hollywood background that had actually been under the Henson firm given that its acquisition in 1999. It go back to the very early days of flick manufacturing when it started as the online for quiet movie symbol Charlie Chaplin’s workshop start in 1917. After Chaplin offered the center in 1953, the Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument was ultimately gotten by A&M Records in 1966, which ultimately offered it to Muppet master Henson in 2000 to act as the online of The Jim Henson Company.
