Bing Crosby's former Coachella Valley mansion boasting with Hollywood history goes on sale for $13.5M

Legendary star Bing Crosby’s onetime Coachella Valley residence, located inside the exclusive Ironwood Country Club community, is on the market for $13.5 million. 

The property, which is reportedly the site of an alleged 'tryst between President John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe' in the 1960s, per the Robb Report, sits on two and a half acres of land and is about 15 miles from Palm Springs. 

It was originally built in 1955 and purchased by its current owners, retired healthcare executive Randall Burt and his attorney wife, Julia, for in 2012 for nearly $3 million. 

The couple 'fully renovated' the five-bedroom, seven-bathroom mansion, according to its listing, which is held by Susan Canavan and Deirdre Coit of Canavan Coit & Associates at Compass.

The Spanish ranch-style retreat, built by the White Christmas hitmaker, comes fully furnished and has three casitas, in addition to the main house. 

While it has been remodeled, Burt and his spouse strived to 'honor its legacy and heritage.'

Some amenities include a a wet bar with a glassed-in, temperature-controlled wine cellar, swimming pool, spa and a lighted tennis court and bocce ball court. 

It also has a self-cleaning oven, dark hardwood floors, a soaking tub equipped with a small flat-screen television in the primary bedroom, and views of the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto mountain ranges in the backyard. 

The home is rumored to be the site of a 1962 rendezvous between Kennedy and Monroe.

It was mentioned in James Spada's biography, Peter Lawford: The Man Who Kept Secrets, who wrote that the actor drove Monroe to Crosby’s Palm Springs house to allegedly spend a romantic weekend with Kennedy. 

Crosby, a legendary crooner and Academy Award-winning actor, is considered one of the greatest entertainers of all time. 

In 1977, he suffered a heart attack following a game of golf in Madrid, Spain that resulted in his death at the age of 73. 

In September 2024, his wife, Kathryn Crosby, passed away at age 90.

Kathryn racked up an impressive acting resume of her own, including star-making turns in Anatomy of a Murder, Operation Mad Ball and The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad, before marrying Crosby in 1957.

She was born in West Columbia, Texas, on November 24, 1933, and she graduated with a degree in fine arts from the University of Texas before moving to Hollywood to seek fame and fortune in 1953.

Kathryn met Bing while interviewing him for a column she wrote for her hometown newspaper about life in Hollywood.

The couple married in 1957, when she was 23 and Bing was 54, and she remained married to him until his death in 1977.

Kathryn and Bing dated for four tumultuous years before they eloped to Las Vegas.

After she and Bing married, she pulled back from her acting career to focus on raising their three children.

As a child and teenager, Kathryn dominated the local Texas beauty pageant circuit and won a contract with Paramount when was named the first runner-up in the Miss Texas pageant.

It was that contact that brought her to Hollywood and put her on the path that led to her marriage to Bing.

It is said that she made him promise she could continue her acting career after they married, which he reneged on soon after, preferring her to be at home.

The couple moved to the San Francisco suburb of Hillsborough in the early 1960s and she became a registered nurse in 1963. 

After Bing died in 1977 of a heart attack while on a golfing trip to Spain, Kathryn re-started her acting career.

Kathryn became the caretaker of her husband's legacy, especially after two books were published, one written by his son Gary from his first marriage, depicting him as an abusive tyrant.

She wrote My Life With Bing (1983) and My Last Years with Bing (2002) to tell her version of her life with the legendary actor.

After Bing's death she married Maurice Sullivan in 2000. He was killed in a 2010 car accident that seriously injured Crosby.