Jeff Records Jr. and his family have been based in Oklahoma City for generations. But for nearly 15 years, the uber-wealthy owner of Midfirst Bank—the largest privately-owned bank in the U.S.—and part-owner of the NBA’s OKC Thunder team has also maintained an L.A. vacation home, a lavish Pacific Palisades tennis court estate set right on bustling Sunset Boulevard.
While Records’ Palisades retreat narrowly escaped the recent wildfires unscathed, it makes sense that the family no longer wants to live in the area, given the loss of neighborhood businesses and forthcoming years of inevitable construction. So they’ve quickly changed addresses as only the very wealthy can do, by paying $26 million for an even larger home in Beverly Hills.
We’re guessing Records really liked living on Sunset Boulevard, because his new house is also located on that same highly trafficked street, albeit about eight miles east of his old place. And like the old house, it also features a full-size tennis court, this one overlooking the exclusive Los Angeles Country Club golf greens.
Built in the late 1980s, the neoclassical French chateau-style house eventually came to be owned by the late Indonesian real estate tycoon Aldo Brasali and his wife Lynda, who lived there for about a decade. It was Lynda who sold the house in 2021 for $19.1 million to Dutch media mogul Reinout Oerlemans and his wife Danielle.
The Oerlemans family, who previously renovated and sold a $69 million Bel Air mansion to music superstar The Weeknd, also gave the Beverly Hills home a cosmetic overhaul before putting it for sale at $32 million. Now awash in vibrant paint and wallpaper, plus distinctly love-it-or-hate-it furnishings, the interiors “seamlessly blend old-world glamour with modern elegance,” per the listing.
Invisible from the street behind towering trees, gates and two separate hedgerows, the vine-covered house offers six beds and eight bathrooms spread within 9,000 square feet of living space.
Inside, main floor highlights include hardwood floors and large, light-filled rooms. A step-down living room with a marble fireplace features an adjoining lounge room with walls wrapped in a very glossy orange. There’s also a wood-paneled office serviced by a wet bar, a formal dining room with matte orange wallpaper, and a kitchen flaunting a visible pot rack, two center islands and a trove of high-end appliances.
All the home’s bedrooms are located upstairs, and all feature their own private ensuite bathrooms. The primary bedroom takes the luxury up another notch with a sitting area, private balcony and dual bathrooms and closets, one of them almost entirely swaddled in what appears to be lustrous walnut wood.
Out back, the 1-acre estate features a large grassy lawn encircling a swimming pool and spa, plus the aforementioned sunken tennis court, which lies on a knoll set well below the house and features lights for nighttime play. The property also includes terraces, patios, mature trees for privacy and a deck with more over-the-treetops views of the country club greens.
In addition to their longtime Palisades home and big new Beverly Hills purchase, Records and his wife Marisa also continue to maintain an Oklahoma City residence, plus an $8 million home up in California’s scenic Pebble Beach, a $10 million ski chalet in Snowmass, Colorado, two private jets and a 177-foot superyacht that’s been christened “Fortunate Sun.”
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