A Hillsborough mansion, from which the Hearst family repeatedly called for Patty Hearst to be released by the Symbionese Liberation Army nearly 50 years ago, just sold for nearly $13 million.
The 9,856-square-foot, three-story home at 223 W Santa Inez Ave. sold for $12.75 million on July 22, according to a listing from the realtors.
Featuring eight bedrooms, six full bathrooms, an in-ground pool and a three-car garage, the 107-year-old home long ago belonged to billionaire Bay Area media magnate William Randolph Hearst's son, Randolph, who was once the publisher of the San Francisco Examiner.
The home had first been listed at $14.999 million last August, then at $13.5 million this February.
Located in one of the country's wealthiest neighborhoods, the home first gained national prominence in 1974. Patty Hearst was kidnapped that February and her parents, Randolph and Catherine, routinely held press conferences on the home’s front steps.
On those steps, Hearst's parents played a recording in which she announced she joined the Symbionese Liberation Army under the name "Tania." Hearst participated in a bank robbery in San Francisco's Sunset District nearly two weeks after the tape was released, and she was ultimately arrested in the city the following September.
In renouncing the organization, Hearst later claimed she was brainwashed. She was sentenced to a maximum of 35 years in prison after being convicted of bank robbery and using a firearm while committing a felony in 1976, but former President Jimmy Carter commuted her sentence in 1979 and former Bill Clinton pardoned her on the last day of his second presidential term in 2001.
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