Geoff Lewis Tabachnick isn’t yet a household name, but the L.A.-based venture capitalist has still managed to go very viral on social media in recent weeks, shortly after he posted a rambling video on X, formerly known as Twitter. In the video, Lewis seems to allude to subversion from an unseen force or group, saying “Over the past eight years, I’ve … [become] the primary target of: a non-governmental system, not visible, but operational. … It doesn’t regulate, it doesn’t attack, it doesn’t ban. It just inverts signal until the person carrying it looks unstable.”
Lewis—one of OpenAI’s first investors and managing partner of multibillion-dollar investment firm Bedrock Capital—also stated that the unseen system “Lives in soft compliance delays, the non-response email thread, the ‘we’re pausing diligence’ with no follow-up. It lives in whispered concern. ‘He’s brilliant, but something just feels off.’ It lives in triangulated pings from adjacent contacts asking veiled questions you’ll never hear directly,” leading the Futurism blog’s sources and a multitude of online commenters to speculate that 43-year-old Lewis is currently going through some sort of ChatGPT-influenced mental health crisis, although we certainly can’t confirm that.
We do know that Lewis and his husband, Beverly Hills local Ari Kashani, were the buyers who recently (and pre-alleged breakdown) paid $11 million for a beautiful house in prime lower Bel Air, sited on a hillside knoll around the corner from the perennially chic Hotel Bel-Air. The couple appears to have scored an amazing deal on the property, which was originally asking $20 million and more recently offered at $15.7 million.
And there are certainly worse places to have a mental health episode than in the grand foyer of this mansion, which is laced with marble columns and marble underfoot. Known as Vivenda da Lua (“House of the Moon” in Portuguese) and likewise described as a Spanish-Portuguese villa-style home in the listing, the structure packs nine bedrooms and eight bathrooms into more than 9,000 square feet of living space.
Architect Bob Ray Offenhauser designed the 2002-built house, which was long owned and custom-built for the late married couple Robert and Erika Brunson, he a food distribution mogul and she an animal activist and interior designer who gained fame as the longtime go-to decorator of choice for Saudi royals. Erika, who personally decorated her own Bel Air house, got her first job decorating the L.A. mansion of the late Prince Khalid, a business associate of her husband; His Royal Highness apparently liked her work so much that he referred her to dozens of his family members. Brunson would go own to design the interiors of numerous Al Saud family mansions, both in Riyadh and stateside.
While relatively restrained at her own home, Brunson’s decorative flair still flares up in the living room’s peach-colored curtains, which set off the lighter peach walls. There’s also a blood-red movie theater complete with zebra-stripe carpeting, and a library with gold curtains to match the gold-toned walnut paneling.
Described in the listing as “a study in timeless luxury,” the residence also features fireplaces imported from Paris, a mirror-walled dining room with a massive crystal chandelier, a wine cellar, gym, hand-painted murals, and an elevator for easy upstairs access. And somewhere there’s a so-called “Zen room,” which might be a necessary amenity in this case.
The primary bedroom is located upstairs, and it features dual closets, dual stone bathrooms, and its own private kitchenette.
Spanning about two-thirds of an acre, the estate’s grounds overlook Bel Air treetops and are walled and gated for privacy. Grassy lawns and patios for sunbathing flow to a rectangular swimming pool, which sits in front of a fireplace-equipped cabana. Out front, the house sports an attached three-car garage, plus a motorcourt with parking for at least five more vehicles.
Some of Lewis and Kashani’s nearest new Bel Air neighbors include Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, Mandalay Entertainment CEO Peter Guber, and Jens Grede, the co-founder and CEO of Kim Kardashian’s Skims clothing brand.
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