Hollywood Hills

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The Hollywood Hills is a neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, and part of the eastern section of the low transverse range of the Santa Monica Mountains, which extends south to north from the Los Feliz District and Hollywood to the south side of the San Fernando Valley and westward to Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu and Pacific Palisades.

The Hollywood Hills form the north barrier of the Los Angeles Basin. There has been extensive residential development in the Hollywood Hills since the 1920s. The designation "Hollywood Hills" at first meant only the hill neighborhoods north of West Hollywood and Hollywood proper but not the more westerly neighborhoods. The Hollywood Sign is in the Hollywood Hills.

The most famous part of the Hollywood Hills is the area above the Sunset Strip, which is dotted with the mansions of the rich and famous. Hollywood Hills above the Sunset Strip is home to the highest concentration of celebrities in Los Angeles, where high-profile residents enjoy privacy along with the best views attainable in Los Angeles. Celebrity residents past and present include Johnny Mathis, Lew Ayres, Heidi Fleiss, Ricardo Montalban, Gene Norman, Arthur Lee, Frances Faye, Ringo Starr, John Densmore, Greg Kinnear, The Eagles, Bobby Hart, Frank Zappa, Michael Nesmith, Russel Garcia, Lenny Bruce, Liberace, Humphery Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Woody Herman, Leopold Stokowski, George Harrison, Bobby Sherman, Leslie Nielsen, Iced T and Bob Mothersbaugh. Homes in this neighborhood with a unique "90069" West Hollywood zip code (while actually being located within the city of Los Angeles), are typically $1,000 - $1,500/per square foot, making it the most expensive cost-per-square-foot average in all of Los Angeles, exceeding Beverly Hills and Bel Air.