Los Angeles arson investigators confirmed Monday that, although the cause of the Saddleridge fire remains undetermined, the blaze started Thursday beneath a high voltage transmission tower.

The Saddleridge fire broke out in Sylmar on Thursday night and was fueled by Santa Ana winds, burning almost 8,000 acres, destroying 17 structures and damaging 58. A man in his late 50s died after suffering a heart attack while talking with firefighters early Friday, officials said.

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The confirmation comes after Sylmar residents told news outlets and fire officials that they saw a fire burning at the base of the transmission tower near Saddle Ridge Road.

According to preliminary information from the Los Angeles Fire Department, the fire is believed to have started in a 50-foot by 70-foot area under a transmission tower near Yarnell Street and the 210 Freeway in Sylmar. The exact location wasn’t immediately available.

Capt. Erik Scott, an LAFD spokesman, said in a video news release that investigators are working to determine the cause of the fire.

“They’re looking at the burn pattern, they’re combing through the debris, they’re talking to witnesses, they’re looking at surveillance, and they’re literally hiking up that hill placing stakes in areas of interest, putting colored flags to look at where the burn pattern went, how the flames were reacting against rocks, how the bushes were burnt, and really stepping back and reenacting scene[s] where that fire went through to get exact data and detail to have a conclusive answer,” Scott said. “So it takes time, and we certainly appreciate people’s patience.”

Scott added that there was no evidence of a homeless encampment in the area.

Edison said in a statement Monday that “out of an abundance of caution, we notified the California Public Utilities Commission on Friday, Oct. 11, that our system was impacted near the reported time of the fire…. As reported, during a period of high winds and low humidity, a
fire began at approximately 9 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 10, near Yarnell Street and Saddle Ridge Road in Sylmar which quickly spread westward in the northern part of Los Angeles.”

SAN FRANCISCO — 

A brazen thief stole a Salvador Dali etching valued at $20,000 from a San Francisco gallery, then walked off down the street with the work in his hand.

“Burning Giraffe,” a 1960s hand-colored, limited-edition surrealist work, was stolen in seconds Sunday afternoon from Dennis Rae Fine Art off Union Square.

Rasjad Hopkins, a gallery director, said he was working alone and may have turned his back away from the front of the store, where the piece was displayed on an easel facing the window.

“He was in and out of there in a shot. He probably did it in less than a minute,” Hopkins said Monday.

The gallery has a video camera, but it wasn’t on at the time, Hopkins said.

But surveillance video from another business showed the man strolling down Geary Street with the artwork in his hand, KGO-TV Channel 7 reported.

The etching normally was secured with a tether, but it wasn’t at the time of the theft, Hopkins said.

KGO-TV said the etching would have been secured with a lock and cable that are missing and may have been cut off by the suspect. But Hopkins said he doubted that. He suggested the tether might have been removed a day earlier for a showing and was not replaced.

Although art thieves sometimes have clients who pay for certain pieces, “I think it was a theft of opportunity,” Hopkins said.

The etching was insured, he said. It was one of about 30 pieces on display for the gallery’s Dali exhibition.

Hopkins said the etching is relatively rare. “I’d say it’s one of the most desirable pieces out of that period,” he said.

It is well-known and is also numbered, Hopkins added.

That made it unlikely to be sold online, another director, Angela Kellett, told KGO-TV.

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Anyone with information on the theft can contact police.

MOUNT SHASTA, Calif. — 

A Northern California man has been arrested on suspicion of killing four people after he showed up at a police station with a body in his car.

Police in Mount Shasta, Calif., said the man turned himself in Monday afternoon and told authorities he had killed people at his apartment in Roseville, more than 200 miles away.

Roseville police said they found three bodies at the apartment.

It appears the man knew the victims, police said.

The names of the suspect and the victims and details of the killings haven’t been released.

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President Trump took a short break from campaigning for himself Monday to campaign for someone else: Sean Spicer.

Trump hopped online to tweet his support for the former White House press secretary, who is competing on ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars.” The controversial contestant, who resigned from his position in Trump’s administration in 2017, also turned to social media to thank his former boss for spreading the word.

“Vote for good guy @seanspicer tonight on Dancing With The Stars,” Trump wrote. “He has always been there for us!”

Spicer actually exited Trump’s staff less than a year into his term amid reports that the president was unhappy with his communications team. During his brief White House stint, Spicer developed a reputation for spinning facts and picking fights with reporters.

“Thank you @POTUS @realDonaldTrump,” Spicer responded Monday, pinning the tweet to the top of his profile. “Appreciate all the votes on @DancingABC tonight.”

Given his track record, Spicer’s “DWTS” casting announcement in August sparked immediate backlash from Trump critics, “DWTS” fans and even Tom Bergeron. The longtime “DWTS” host penned a lengthy statement, shortly after the network released this year’s slate of talent, expressing his disappointment with the show’s producers for recruiting a partisan figure.

So far, Spicer has survived the first four weeks of the program’s 28th season, dancing with pro partner Lindsay Arnold. The fifth episode, themed “Disney Night,” airs tonight on ABC.

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Logan Roy wanted a killer, and he got one.

Going into the Season 2 finale of “Succession,” the question was who would be the “blood sacrifice” — the person to take the fall for the scandals engulfing Waystar Royco’s cruise division. But it ended with a twist that was as exhilarating as it was shocking. (Caution: Spoilers for the finale lie ahead.)

In a live press conference at which Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Logan’s second son, was to have accepted blame for the company’s wrongdoing, he instead blamed his father (played by Brian Cox), calling him a “malignant presence, a bully and a liar” and warning, “This is the day his reign ends.”

As Kendall dropped a proverbial bomb on live TV, his father, thousands of miles away aboard a yacht off the coast of Croatia, watched silently from the couch.

Rather than exploding in anger or disbelief, the media mogul — who’d just told Kendall he wasn’t enough of a “killer” to take over the company — looked on almost admiringly. The episode, “This Is Not For Tears,” ends with a closeup on Logan, a barely perceptible smirk spreading across his face.

What did it all mean? Why did Logan decide to sacrifice Kendall, who has spent most of the season in a state of blind obedience to his father, rather than his dopey, incompetent son-in-law, Tom Wambsgans (Matthew Macfadyen)? We spoke to Brian Cox to find out.

Well, that was a satisfying episode of television.

Apparently. The airwaves have been going crazy with it all morning. It was very gratifying. I was particularly pleased; there were were some edits in it which I thought were really good and smart. It was such a good episode. It really couldn’t have been a better finish.

Can we talk about the smirk?

It’s a look of triumph and disaster. I think the key to it is the fact that Logan is a realist. He understands the reality of certain things and how it all shapes up. Especially when [the shareholders] say, “Look, we think you should be the one, you should be the guy,” he realizes that rather than being sacrificed by a bunch of shareholders, he would rather do it through the exigencies of his own family.

He sees his children emerge in that last episode and he sees the source of Siobhan’s neediness. He begins to see the tremendous potential of his … son, Roman, which is quite considerable, showing a remarkable vision that’s been absent until now.

So when he comes to the decision that he’s going to sacrifice Kendall, he believes that this may be the shock that his son needs to step up to something else. It’s a gamble. It comes out of this speech about being a killer. That’s what triggers it all, and that’s where [Kendall’s] kiss comes from. I know they’ve been comparing it to the Fredo kiss [in “The Godfather Part II”], but it’s not that. That’s obvious. It’s not the Judas kiss. It’s actually a kiss of love, it’s a son going, “What am I doing to do, where am I going to go? This is my father whom I love, but my father is a monster.”

There is a kind of pride in what he does, a sadness in what he does, but also an understanding that perhaps Kendall is finally released.

Do you think Logan is pleased Kendall finally showed he’s a (metaphorical) killer?

It’s such an awful notion, the idea of being a killer, it’s something that to Brian Cox is completely abhorrent. But in terms of the drama, I would say “understood” rather than “pleased.” [He’s] pleased for Kendall, but he understands is [the thing that’s] more important.

Did you do any takes without the smirk or with different reactions?

That was always there. We agreed on that, that’s something that came from me. It was suggested in the script. I just said, “I think that’s key, I think that’s important.” Even more so is when he puts his finger up to his mouth [to shush Roman as he loudly reacts to Kendall’s press conference], he wants the whole sense of what that act of apparent treachery is about.

Did Logan decide to sacrifice Kendall because of Shiv’s plea to save Tom?

Tom was never in the frame, he’s too weak. He hasn’t reached some level of profundity, so there’s no point in sacrificing Tom. He’s trying to save his daughter because his daughter is very important to him. We saw it very clearly — that Tom does ground Shiv in many ways, even though she’s a very naughty girl.

Shiv seems to be Logan’s favorite.

I think he feels more relaxed with her. I think he’s also now got a whole new respect for Roman because he feels that Roman has come of age. Roman’s defense of Gerri, which is very admirable, but more so his recognizing the fallacy of the whole Middle Eastern trip. Roman seeing through that, that really has got him thinking, “There’s more to this boy than meets the eye.” I think that’s something that will emerge even more in the next season.

Most of the episode took place on board a yacht in Croatia. That must have been an interesting production experience.

To be honest with you, I would never want to go on a cruise in my life. I see these adverts for Viking Cruises and I think, “Well, that’d be interesting,” but having spent two weeks on the boat — and I was not on the boat all the time — I just thought no, I’m done with boats. Also, the opulence of the yacht is just a bit cloying, it sort of sticks in my throat. It was incredibly opulent, that yacht.

Did you get seasick?

I never get seasick. It was beautiful. To be in Dubrovnik was lovely, so was Korcula, that’s where the boat went. That aspect, none of that bothered me. Just the idea of being locked in a boat with a bunch of people, in normal life, you’d avoid like the plague. [Feigns screaming] “Ahhhh, no! No!” Our cast is very loving, so I didn’t have that problem.

So I take it you didn’t go off the inflatable slide?

No, no, I’m far too old for that.

Jazz critic turned music historian Ted Gioia’s “Music: A Subversive History” is a dauntingly ambitious, obsessively researched labor of cultural provocation.

In what he has described as a popularized summary of three briefer and more focused but equally ambitious histories — “Work Songs” (2006), “Healing Songs” (2006) and “Love Songs: The Hidden History” (2015) — Gioia means not merely to summarize the world history of music in 472 pages but to establish that other writers who’ve tackled versions of this task have badly missed the mark. Their crime against scholarship: underplaying “essential elements of music that are considered disreputable or irrational — for example, its deep connections to sexuality, magic, trance and alternative mind states, healing, social control, generational conflict, political unrest, even violence and murder.”

It’s often hard to tell exactly who Gioia is arguing with: mostly “classical” music specialists, I’d venture, in part because few others attempted music history at all until ethnomusicology took shape after World War II.

As someone who’s spent years researching such matters as the music of the ancient world and the age of the troubadours while also tracking current releases, I’m pleased to report that Gioia taught me plenty. But both formally and polemically, he’s swimming in deep water. Its prose pragmatic and its structure baldly chronological, his grand overview is doomed by its very ambition to a sprawl with little chance of achieving all it sets out to. These flaws weren’t inevitable.

Inspired to investigate further, I went on to read Gioia’s “Love Songs,” which I found gripping, sometimes a page-turner — as with the chapter called “The North African and Middle Eastern Connection,” which focuses on a medieval genre called muwashshahat that topped off verses in classical Arabic with codas in colloquial Arabic or, more remarkably, the local Mediterranean vernacular. But where occasionally Gioia interrupts his rapid progress to devote a few pages to an interesting tale — Abélard and Héloïse, Mozart’s lifestyle, the tragedy of Kurt Cobain — these often seem more like arbitrary place markers and changes of pace than stories whose detailed scale is essential to his argument as a whole.

Nor did I always find his overall thesis persuasive. He overstates the significance of the anthropological findings he begins with. Proving music’s “deep connections to sexuality, magic, trance and alternative mind states” by establishing its undeniable roots in hunting, battle, healing and procreation doesn’t distinguish it from any other human endeavor, all of which sprung from those fundamental activities as human life began to evolve. He’s also rather too impressed at how the history of music is dominated by innovators who are first shunned by establishment tastemakers and then absorbed by them. That’s how human progress works, especially in the arts.

What I found most memorable in this exhaustive history is a six-page, 40-point epilogue called “This Is Not a Manifesto.” Some examples: “3. Songs served as the origin for what we now call psychology — in other words, as a way of celebrating personal emotions and attitudes long before the inner life was deemed worthy of respect in other spheres of society.” “9. Diversity contributes to musical innovation because it brings the outsider into the musical ecosystem.” “21. Music is always more than notes. It is made out of sounds. Confusing these two is no small matter.” “32. Even love songs are political songs, because new ways of singing about love tend to threaten the status quo.”

Not all 40 are as striking, and many aren’t especially subversive. But all counteract the Confucian-Pythogorean rationalism dispatched in No. 19, which was and remains not only elitist and anti-materialist but also sexist: Starting with the so-called Song of Solomon, Gioia details many instances of male authorship attributed to songs almost certainly created by women as well as more general attacks on supposed musical “effeminacy.”

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I was happy to read Gioia on many fascinating topics: the songful Sumerian priestess Enheduanna; the musical innovations of Sappho; Plato on his deathbed summoning an aulos, the bassoon-like “flute” he had long disparaged; the bells that dominated the “soundtrack of European life for a thousand years”; Christianity’s propensity to condemn and nurture music simultaneously; the thralldom wealthy patrons forgotten by history imposed on composers who are now household names.

Inevitably, I was less taken with his account of 20th century pop, particularly the rock era. But I was also struck by earlier lacunae. Gioia never mentions that cross-cultural hotbed of female musical innovation, the pharaonic harem. He ignores Dionysus and “Dionysian” Greek tragedy, much of which was sung with aulos and kithara accompaniment. While challenging the truism that troubadour song was invented by noblemen, he gives short shrift to the wandering jongleurs who sang in medieval taverns and hostelries. He never differentiates Mediterranean and sub-Saharan Africa. He glosses over the musical usages of blackface minstrelsy. He ignores such dance crazes as the waltz, polka and foxtrot.

Significantly, many of these information failures involve a term Gioia is ambivalent about: “entertainment,” which he brands “mere,” “idle” and “escapist” at various junctures. I find the jazz, rock, punk and hip-hop Gioia praises as meaningful as he does. But I would also characterize the good fortune that befell unprecedented numbers of ordinary people in the 20th century as a leisure explosion that liberated citizens to “waste” their newfound “free time” on entertainment while also delving into the meaning of life, not least because what began to be called fun less than two centuries ago is a crucial component of the meaning of life.

Both Gioia and I are all too aware that there are still precincts where it’s “subversive” to argue that popular music radiates meaning. We have different ideas about how best to grab hold of that meaning. But I hope we can agree that one of music’s virtues is that it’s ultimately inexplicit, leaving human beings free to pursue its secrets as they will.

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“Music: A Subversive History”

Ted Gioia

Basic Books: 487 pages, $35

SERIES

NCIS The team links a bizarre crime scene at Arlington National Cemetery to a string of attacks on homeless veterans in this new episode of the procedural drama. 8 p.m. CBS

The Voice The battle rounds continue as the coaches enlist Normani, Darius Rucker, Usher and will.i.am to prepare their artists to go head-to-head. 8 p.m. NBC

The Conners Desperate for more income, Becky (Alicia Goranson) applies for a bartending position at Casita Bonita, but Dan (John Goodman) worries about the effect the job could have on her struggles with alcoholism. Also, Darlene (Sara Gilbert) nears a decision about Ben and David (Jay R. Ferguson, Johnny Galecki). 8 p.m. ABC

The Resident Conrad (Matt Czuchry) begins to doubt Devon’s (Manish Dayal) judgment after one of the latter’s patients suddenly revives after being pronounced dead. Also, Cain and Nic (Morris Chestnut, Emily VanCamp) clash over how to deal with a patient who’s a well-known white supremacist. Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Shaunette Renee Wilson also star in this new episode. 8 p.m. Fox

Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Melissa McCarthy and Eric Stonestreet retrace their ancestral journeys. 8 p.m. KOCE and KPBS

Bless This Mess Mike (Dax Shepard) decides to revive the town’s newspaper, the Bucksnort Bugle, and stirs up local tensions when he discovers several community secrets and rivalries in this new episode of the fish-out-of-water comedy. Lake Bell, Ed Begley Jr. Pam Grier, David Koechner and Lennon Parham also star. 8:30 p.m. ABC

Lost LA The season premiere of this local history documentary series focuses on Griffith Park, one of the nation’s largest municipal parks, which hasn’t always lived up to its founder’s vision of a public recreation ground for all. 8:30 p.m. KCET

Arrow Oliver (Stephen Amell) is still trying to figure out the nature of the Monitor’s (guest star LaMonica Garrett) mission as he returns home in the eighth and final season of this superhero drama. Kathleen McNamara, Ben Lewis and David Ramsey also star. 9 p.m. CW

The Purge The first season of this TV series adaptation of a horror movie franchise focused primarily on the events during a single Purge night, an annual 12-hour event when all crime, up to and including homicide, is legal. In the second season, the series takes a wider perspective, exploring how the events of the most recent Purge affected the lives of some survivors. Derek Luke, Max Martini, Rochelle Aytes, Joel Allen and Charlotte Schweiger star. 9 p.m. Syfy and USA

black-ish After Jack (Miles Brown) gets cut from the basketball team, Dre (Anthony Anderson) frets over his son’s future, while Bow (Tracee Ellis Ross) strongly feels that any challenges Jack may face will make him a stronger, better person. Marcus Scribner and Marsai Martin also star. 9:30 p.m. ABC

NCIS: New Orleans Pride (Scott Bakula) and his team expose a plot to covertly house migrants at a private detention center contracted by the federal government in this new episode. 10 p.m. CBS

Emergence After learning more about Piper’s (Alexa Swinton) origins, Jo (Allison Tolman) struggles with the decision to shelter her in this new episode. 10 p.m. ABC

Treadstone Sleeper agents around the world are awakened to undertake the covert missions for which they were programmed in this sleek new spy drama set in the same world where CIA super-spy Jason Bourne operated. Jeremy Irvine (“War Horse”), Brian J. Smith (“Sense8”), Omar Metwally (“The Affair”) and Michelle Forbes (“The Killing”) star. 10 p.m. Syfy and USA

SPECIALS

Democratic Presidential Debate From the campus of Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio, the dozen candidates qualified for this 2020 Democratic presidential event gather for their party’s fourth sanctioned primary debate. Featuring Joe Biden, Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg, Julián Castro, Tulsi Gabbard, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Beto O’Rourke, Bernie Sanders, Tom Steyer, Elizabeth Warren and Andrew Yang. Anderson Cooper, Erin Burnett and Marc Lacey moderate. 5 and 10 p.m. CNN

Debate Post Analysis Live debate coverage and analysis. 8 p.m. CNN

MOVIES

TALK SHOWS

CBS This Morning Author John Grisham. (N) 7 a.m. KCBS

Today Cyntoia Brown; Julie Andrews; Victoria Beckham. (N) 7 a.m. KNBC

KTLA Morning News (N) 7 a.m. KTLA

Good Morning America Mike Rowe; Lupita Nyong’o; Adam Rippon; “Dancing With the Stars”; Michelle Pfeiffer; Daymond John. (N) 7 a.m. KABC

Good Day L.A. Elizabeth Wagmeister, Variety; Betty Buckley. (N) 7 a.m. KTTV

Live With Kelly and Ryan Author Lupita Nyong’o (“Sulwe”); author Alyssa Milano (“Project Middle School”). (N) 9 a.m. KABC

The View Rachael Ray. (N) 10 a.m. KABC

Rachael Ray Tim Tebow. (N) 10 a.m. KTTV

The Wendy Williams Show (N) 11 a.m. KTTV

The Talk Jaime Pressly. (N) 1 p.m. KCBS

The Dr. Oz Show A police officer opens up about the fateful day he was shot by a disgruntled ex-LAPD cop. (N) 1 p.m. KTTV

The Kelly Clarkson Show Tyler Perry; Ben Platt; Lawnmower Man Movement. (N) 2 p.m. KNBC

Dr. Phil A woman says her 28-year-old son is a rageaholic and has been arrested more than 10 times. (N) 3 p.m. KCBS

The Ellen DeGeneres Show Nicole Kidman, Charlize Theron and Margot Robbie. (N) 3 p.m. KNBC

The Real Guest cohost Tisha Campbell; Mark L. Walberg. (N) 3 p.m. KTTV

The Doctors Possible association between wisdom teeth removal and the opioid crisis. (N) 3 p.m. KCOP

SoCal Connected (Season premiere) California’s recycling industry struggles as millions in public money sits unspent while landfills fill up, often with items intended to be recycled. (N) 8 and midnight KCET

Amanpour and Company 11 p.m. KCET; midnight KVCR; 1 a.m. KLCS

The Daily Show With Trevor Noah Democratic presidential debate: Alex Wagner. (N) 11 p.m. Comedy Central

Jimmy Kimmel Live! Elton John; Taika Waititi; Thom Yorke performs. (N) 11:35 p.m. KABC

Nightline (N) 12:37 a.m. KABC

SPORTS

NHL Hockey The Tampa Bay Lightning visit the Montreal Canadiens, 4 p.m. NBCSP; the Carolina Hurricanes visit the Kings, 7:30 p.m. Fox Sports Net

CONCACAF Nations League Soccer Canada versus the United States, 4:15 p.m. ESPN2

Baseball ALCS Game 3: The Houston Astros visit the New York Yankees, 5 p.m. FS1; NLCS Game 4: The St. Louis Cardinals visit the Washington Nationals, 5 p.m. TBS

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The 1920s-era Scotty’s Castle in Death Valley National Park won’t reopen until October 2021, seven years after a flash flood caused $47 million in damage to the landmark’s buildings and road, a recent park announcement said.

The onetime unfinished vacation home of businessman Albert Johnson — and nicknamed for his buddy, cowboy and gold prospector Walter Scott — held custom-made furniture, tapestries, antique furniture, an elaborate pipe organ and a set of 25 carillon chimes in what’s called the Chimes Tower.

Some repairs have been completed. For example, a system of concrete blocks and other features at the castle’s bridge were installed to curb future erosion. “This work will prevent damage from future floods at this pinch-point where flood speeds were fastest,” the park’s statement said.

Also, re-created concrete fence posts on the property have been installed. Like the originals, some of which still stand, each post is marked with an “S” and “J” for Scott and Johnson. New posts bear the date “2019″ to distinguish them from the originals.

Other projects, such as fixing the water system, installing a new septic tank and upgrading the electrical system, are underway. Plans to flood-proof the visitor center, which was the building’s garage, are in the design and review phase.

Designs are in the works to fix the Chimes Tower and shore up infrastructure, including the heating and air-conditioning.

Also, the access road, Bonnie Clare Road, remains closed through Grapevine Canyon because of safety hazards related to ongoing construction.

How is the park paying for these piecemeal projects? Entrance fees, federal road monies, deferred maintenance accounts and donations are funding the fixes.

While Scotty’s Castle undergoes repairs, visitors can take a ranger-led walking tour ($25, plus fees) at 9:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. from Dec. 8 through April 12. Tours are limited to 25 participants. You can buy tickets online at Scotty’s Castle Flood Recovery Walking Tours web page.

Death Valley notches its 25th year as a national park this year. It was created by the 1994 Desert Protection Act.

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What do you get when you pair an ultra-modern, high-concept architect with a film producer-turned-spec developer with a penchant for over-the-top opulence and gargantuan price tags? This Bel-Air showplace, which just hit the market for $65 million.

The nearly 30,000-square-foot mega-mansion is the latest collaboration between architect Paul McLean — who’s designed homes owned by Calvin Klein and the Winklevoss twins — and developer Nile Niami, whose extravagant playgrounds cater to the richest of the rich.

Their other efforts together include the Opus, an $80-million golden-gated mansion with a Champagne room stocked with Cristal, as well as the One, a 100,000-square-foot giga-mansion with its own casino, IMAX theater and jellyfish room. The One has not yet surfaced for sale, but it has been teased in the media for years with a target asking price of $500 million.

Niami and McLean’s lastest collaboration showcases splendor as much as the others. Spanning two acres in the affluent Westside pocket, the prized property holds a contemporary home with nine bedrooms, a 160-foot outdoor pool and a 30-foot water wall.

Reflecting pools with floating steps surround the estate, which opens to a grand foyer under 25-foot ceilings. A curved staircase navigates the floor plan, breaking up the crisp, clean lines featured throughout the rest of the interior.

Traditional living spaces include an expansive living room, a chandelier-topped dining room, a marble kitchen and an indoor-outdoor family room with a built-in fireplace. For amenities, there’s a movie theater, a glass wine cellar, a hair salon and a gym. A wellness spa boasts a massage studio and separate facial and yoga rooms.

Walls of glass open outside, where a kitchen, outdoor shower and landscaping surround the massive swimming pool.

Jennie Priel and Aaron Kirman of Compass’ Aaron Kirman Group hold the listing.

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Jia Yueting, an entrepreneur who ran up billions of dollars in personal debts trying to build a business empire in China, has filed for bankruptcy in the U.S. with plans to turn over his latest venture, an electric vehicle startup, to creditors.

In a proposed debt-restructuring plan filed in federal court in Wilmington, Del., Jia will use his ownership stake in Los Angeles-based Faraday & Future Inc. to set up a creditor trust to repay his debts.

Jia faces $2.3 billion in claims, according to the plan. In a statement on Faraday’s website, the company said Jia’s debts were owed to creditors in China.

The plan is also designed to help Faraday put together “equity financing efforts and prepare for an IPO,” according to the statement. Depending on the value of that proposed initial public offering, creditors may recover from 49% to 100% of what they are owed, according to reorganization plan documents filed in court.

Faraday is trying to develop an electric vehicle for sale in the U.S. and China. The company recently hired Carsten Breitfeld, a BMW veteran, to take over the chief executive role from Jia.

Faraday won a much-needed cash infusion when it formed a joint venture earlier this year with The9 Ltd., the Chinese online-gaming company. And a unit of China Evergrande Group, the property developer owned by Hui Ka Yan, China’s third-richest man, agreed to invest $2 billion but cut back on the investment after giving Faraday $800 million for a 32% stake, according to court documents.

Jia has a history of making dramatic statements about his various ventures, including a claim that one of his biggest China-based businesses would “far surpass” China’s three biggest internet companies: Baidu Inc., Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Tencent. That claim was related to $2.2 billion that Jia raised for LeEco, a sprawling conglomerate with interests that include electric cars, TVs and entertainment.

In his first international television appearance in 2016, Jia called Apple Inc. “outdated” and said he expected his electric vehicle company to “lead the industry leapfrogging to a new age.”

In his bankruptcy filing, Jia warned that his IPO plans for Faraday may not raise as much as projected. That was due in part to “negative press related to his debts and an investigation by the China Securities Regulatory Commission into the delisting from the Shenzhen Stock Exchange” of a company where Jia served as chief executive.