A Los Angeles estate that late-night TV legend Johnny Carson once called home has hit the market for a dash under $40 million. All proceeds from the sale have been earmarked for three charities: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the David Geffen Foundation, and SHARE, which supports disabled, abused, and neglected children. David Kramer and Andrew Buss of Compass share the listing.

The longtime Tonight Show host, who died in 2005 at age 79, acquired the midcentury-modern residence in the early 1970s with his third wife Joanna, a former model. Joanna retained the property upon the couple’s divorce in 1985, after a separation and 11 years of marriage. She subsequently undertook a multi-year renovation and, until her death last year, split her time between California and New York, where she kept a pied-à-terre at the Pierre. Carson, meanwhile, lived out his days at a Malibu compound that recently hit the market for $110 million.

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Originally built in 1950 for Mervyn LeRoy, the late film producer and director best known for his work on The Wizard of Oz, the estate rests on 1.5 acres in the prime East Gate enclave. A gated driveway bolstered by a security booth empties at an expansive motor court and two garages with room for four vehicles, with the sprawling stucco and stone-accented structure at its center offering six bedrooms and 11 baths.

Roughly 9,000 square feet across a single level is introduced via a marble-clad foyer with access to an elegant wet bar-equipped living room that wraps around to a cozy wood-paneled den. From there, a spacious family room sports a fireplace and pocketing doors spilling out to a pillared loggia, while a formal dining room connects to a kitchen with an eat-in island and a breakfast nook. A soaring rotunda flows to a posh primary suite, which has a fireside sitting area and dual walk-in closets and baths.

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Other highlights include a basement with a wine cellar, plus a detached two-story guesthouse that once housed Carson’s office. The amenities continue outdoors, where the manicured grounds host a sundeck-encased pool and spa flanked by an open-air cabana with a fireplace, as well as a lighted tennis court and a viewing pavilion holding a kitchenette and a powder room.

Per The Wall Street Journal, Carson had to convince Joanna to relocate from the East Coast to the West Coast. “She was truly a New Yorker to her core, so it was hard for her to move out to California,” said Robert Ulrich, her nephew and trustee of the estate. But she went on to live the life of a socialite when she and Johnny were together, he said, adding they were close with the Sinatras and Nancy Reagan was their neighbor.

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