Exclusive | A $16.9M listing for rare Old Hollywood mansion is exposing a bitter family feud pitting dead brother against dead brother

Talk about a grave injustice.One of Old Hollywood’s last stately mansions, connected to deceased real estate investor Paris Nourafchan, is on the market for $16.9 million — all while his name remains embroiled in a vitriolic legal dispute involving his also-deceased brother, Richard.As the case involving Richard’s death rattles through California Superior Court, accusations of forgery, fraud, elder abuse and a bat mitzvah that allegedly went off the rails are flying.The suit does not name this listed Holmby Hills home at 1196 Brooklawn Dr.or the legal entity that owns it — but the legal tussles between Paris and his nephew, Nicholas Rahban, over alleged actions by Richard on his deathbed could cast a pall over the mansion’s sale.Both Paris and Rahban are claiming the right to Richard’s holdings after separate visits just days, if not hours, before the dying 78-year-old man lapsed into a coma from which he never emerged.

He died in 2024.Paris and Rahban both say they came away from their visits with valid will and trust documents that made them the stewards of Richard’s estate.Rahban filed the suit against Paris individually and as the trustee of Richard’s assets before Paris passed away last year, and the battle continues in his Paris’s name.Paris, in his own legal action, has contested Rahban’s probate petition.Both sides have presented wills and trusts to the court that they say are legit, while accusing each other of using unsavory tactics to get the documents.

These include allegedly faking the fading Richard’s signature and strongarming him.Rahban got his authorization after pulling a make-a-will kit from an online site and photoshopping his uncle’s name and initials on it, Paris’s papers claim.Rahban, for his part, contends that his uncle Richard loathed his brother, alleging that Richard refused to join Paris and their other brother George for a candle-lighting ceremony during a grandniece’s bat mitzvah, and yelled to the rest of...