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Iwan Stone & Matthew Dresch

Inside £30million 'Scarface' mansion that shares garden with Meghan and Harry's LA home

House-hunters could become Harry and Meghan’s new neighbours after a next door pad went on the market for £30million.

The seven-bedroom mansion, known as El Fureidis, also featured as Tony Montana’s house in the 1983 movie Scarface.

It is so close to Harry, 37 and 40-year-old Meghan’s home it even shares a garden wall with their property.

It holds the p otential for natters over the boundary with the ex-royals.

You may even have to throw back balls that Archie, two, and Lilibet, nine months, accidentally kick over.

And you would be sure to make the ex-royals jealous as it is worth nearly £20 million more than theirs.

The Scarface mansion is near Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's home (Zillow/Triangle News)

Sotherby’s, who are selling the house, said: “El Fureidis is exceptional.

“Layered gardens over the 10-acre grounds include a remarkable range of specimen trees effusing grandeur and a romantic sense of time and place.

“El Fureidis is a truly livable residence with beautiful spaces for everything from epic entertaining to everyday intimacies & luxurious serenity.”

The home is surrounded by creeks, bridges, lush woodland and emerald lawns (Zillow/Triangle News)

The house has twelve bathrooms, layered gardens, Persian water gardens and an 18-foot dome covered in 24-carat gold leaf.

The property, which was built in 1906, has other famous neighbours including Oprah Winfrey, Katy Perry and Ellen DeGeneres.

The grounds span a ridiculous 464,135 square feet and have hosted Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill and JFK.

The property was built in 1906, with famous neighbours including Oprah Winfrey, Katy Perry and Ellen DeGeneres (Zillow/Triangle News)

Like Harry and Meghan’s pad, it boasts ocean and mountain views and is surrounded by creeks, bridges, lush woodland and emerald lawns.

The house, which is on the market for just over £30 million - meaning is worth almost three times as much as the ex-royals’ pad - which they bought for a cool £11 million in 2020.

Harry and Meghan’s home, known as “The Chateau”, was previously owned by Russian oligarch Sergey Grishin, who also owned 631 Parra Grande Lane.

The home is on the market for just over £30 million (Zillow/Triangle News)

Grishin, known as the “Scarface oligarch”, once claimed to be at war with the mafia and Putin’s top officials and has bragged about “robbing” the Russian banking system.

Scarface stars Al Pacino as Cuban immigrant Tony Montana, who becomes a drugs baron in Miami, Florida.

The house stars in the iconic gangster film as Tony and his wife Elvira’s house and is the setting for many of its most famous scenes, including the couple’s wedding scene.

El Fureidis, which was designed by Bertram Goodhue, boasts seven bedrooms (Zillow/Triangle News)

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It also contains the bridge over the stream, next to which Tony Montana’s tiger was tied.

While Scarface is set in Miami, because the city’s tourist board did not want to be associated with a violent drug movie it was filmed on location in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and even New York.

The home has incredible views of California (Zillow/Triangle News)

The house was designed by Bertram Goodhue - whose architectural projects include the Nebraska State Capitol and Los Angeles Central Library.

It comes as an expert claimed Prince Harry realises he is walking a "tightrope" with the Royal Family and needs their "magic fairy dust.

Harry and wife Meghan Markle have signed several big-money deals with the likes of Netflix and Spotify after quitting as working royals.

Neighbours can enjoy saying hello to their little friends in the home (Zillow/Triangle News)

Reports last week suggested the couple are filming an 'at-home with the Sussexes docuseries' for Netflix as part of their $100million streaming deal.

And it is just days before the pair, along with their children Archie and Lilibet, will travel to the UK for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations.

Speaking on True Royalty TV's The Royal Beat, royal expert and historian Tessa Dunlop says it could prove awkward when Harry reunites with his family next week.

An older view of the home next to the Sussexes (Zillow/Triangle News)
A grand staircase inside the California property (Zillow/Triangle News)

She explained: "It can feel very lonely if the institution shuts you out. And I think Harry, more than anyone, realises he’s walking a tightrope.

"Yes, he needs to make money, and yes, the Royal Family has made him feel excluded and he feels unsupported.

"But he also realises, on a professional level, he needs some of their magic fairy dust. And, on an emotional level, they’re family.”

The home looks even more picturesque at sunset (Zillow/Triangle News)

Harry and Meghan are expected to join the Queen and the rest of the Royal Family at a service at St Paul's Cathedral next Friday for Her Majesty's Platinum Jubilee.

The service will come 24 hours after the Trooping the Colour event, which will see only working royals appear on the Buckingham Palace balcony, meaning there will be no place for the Sussexes.

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