The Hollywood studio where Atlanta burned in Gone With The Wind, and Citizen Kane was filmed, is up for sale. The Culver Studios, owned over the years by Cecil B DeMille, RKO, Howard Hughes and Lucille Ball’s Desilu operation and was ‘home’ to people like Joseph Kennedy, David O Selznick, and productions such as Peyton Place and where the pilot for the Star Trek franchise was shot.

More recently the 14-acre studio and its 13 sound stages has been owned by Sony Corp (since 1991) who sold it to a consortium of private equity backers led by Pacific Coast Capital Partners, Lehman Bros and Picbengro for $125 million in 2004.

Real estate specialists CB Richard Ellis is selling the site.

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