Adman John Singleton has sold Panamuna Pavilion, his redundant Killcare Heights love shack, for a cut price.
The 2.75ha bushland ocean-view compound traded at just $8.35m.
Singleton, who was spotted on Friday lunching with Kyle Sandilands and John Ibrahim at the CBD steakhouse Grill Americano, had paid $15.85m in October 2023.
There’s a main four-bedroom homestead, with a home office, media room and wine cellar, and a self-contained two-bedroom guesthouse.
Designed by architect Kevin Snell, its eco-friendly resort style offerings included a heated magnesium pool and a championship grass tennis court.
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John Singleton has sold his redundant Killcare Heights property, Panamuna Pavilion. Picture: realestate.com.au
Surrounded by the Bouddi National Park, Panamuna Pavilion was bought as the matrimonial home he intended to share with his then seventh wife Sarah Warry.
It was secured through his longtime entity, Ognis Pty Ltd, which is “Singo’’ in reverse, having been bought from Julian Hofer and Michaela Muir through Josh Canellis at Wiseberry Peninsula.
It had been previously marketed in 2020 with $10m hopes.
John Singleton has copped a $7m loss. Picture: Justin Lloyd.
Singleton and Warry had married in July 2023 – his sixth marriage – having met less than a year earlier after she introduced herself at his Railway Hotel in Gosford.
By March 2024 they were getting divorced, and the property was up for sale by August 2024.
“Everyone was right and we were wrong”, the colourful character told The Sunday Telegraph after the breakup.
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There’s a main four-bedroom homestead and a self-contained two-bedroom guesthouse. Picture: realestate.com.au
The eco-friendly resort style offerings included a heated magnesium pool and a championship grass tennis court. Picture: realestate.com.au
“It is not the first time I have made a mistake and won’t be the last.”
He’d thought Warry was the woman with whom he wanted “shared sunsets with” but had realised sometimes “sunsets aren’t enough”.
“I got sick of looking at sunsets. At the end of the day you don’t stay married when you’re not happy,” he said.
“Living together you come to realise you have different lifestyles that don’t align.
“How many married couples stay together for the kids or so they don’t lose their house or security?
“Of the 50 per cent who stay married, 90 per cent play around and 10 per cent lose interest. “It’s a dopey pledge ‘til death do us part’.
“When you no longer enjoy it, split.”
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John Singleton and his ex-wfie Sarah Warry.
Singleton once conceded “Marriage only ends two ways, divorce or death … I prefer divorce.’’
Singo started his career in the mailroom of the Sydney office of J. Walter Thompson in 1958.
It was the year he met his first wife, Margaret Wall, as teenagers at a Saturday night church dance in Ashfield, according to the biography written by Gerald Stone, appropriately titled Singo: Mates, Wives, Triumphs, Disasters.
Panamuna Pavilion has been bought by vascular surgeon Victor Bourke.
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