Eric and Wendy Schmidts $100M Los Angeles party palace revealed

The wife of a Google co-founder fighting a plan to make California’s housing more affordable has been caught using her $110 million mansion purely for functions — not even living there.The Los Angeles estate is larger than the Taj Mahal, dubbed the manor, and has been transformed into a party palace for a “green” mega-billionaire’s nonprofit empire.Now she’s teamed up with actress Jane Fonda to preserve onerous environmental reviews that make California housing difficult to build.Wendy Schmidt and her husband, Google co-founder Eric Schmidt, splurged on the outlandish former home of famed producer Aaron Spelling, dubbed “The Manor,” last year.But the power couple won’t be living in the 56,000-square-foot, 14-bedroom and 27-bath estate — as it’ll only be used for parties, a source revealed to the California Post.The Holmby Hills manse is undergoing renovations, with property records showing a slew of permits filed since last year to install a solar-friendly roof, rework the HVAC system, and make other interior upgrades.The couple has also re-christened the 5-acre, 123-room party pad “594,” the Wall Street Journal reported.The Schmidts — who are die-hard environmentalists with multiple properties in New York, London, Miami Beach and Montecito — plan to host lavish nonprofit fundraisers at the palatial show-home as Wendy rallies opposition to Prop.

45.The measure, supported by the California Chamber of Commerce and fellow Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s Building a Better California, would expedite onerous environmental reviews that critics say have made housing, transit and other infrastructure too costly and difficult to build.Wendy teamed up with Fonda two years ago to fight oil drilling off the California coast after the industry attempted to roll back coastal buffer zones.The pals then spun up Clean and Healthy California, an environmentalist PAC that raised millions from a who’s who of Hollywood and Silicon Valley titans.Fonda ...