Tasteful Friends Kat Von D buys 'haunted' mansion in southern Indiana

Fuck this dumb racist asshole.

Almost $2 million in Indiana?? Yeah, hope you love it Kat. Indiana is the armpit of the country (even Arkansas has the northwest corner which is beautiful with bearable weather). She sounds like an idiot, so she deserves to now own an unsellable, pathetic house in the most pathetic state in the union.

But Indiana??? Didn’t she see the Prom or know who Pence is?

She will probably have a show called Haunted Whore House, and release a make up line to go with the "reality" show.

Yeah, she'll fit in so-o well with that community.

I have no idea who this person is, and I don't care enough to Google, but she paid way too much for it according to Zillow estimates.

I'll bet mother and Mike are looking forward to an invite

She’s a fucking moron and the recall effort against Newsom, like Trump’s pathetic try, WILL NOT WORK.

Is this the one that took up with Sandra Bullock’s ex-Nazi?

I've always wondered how this talentless trainwreck became a celebrity. Supposedly she became a 'master' tattoo artist at 21 or something like that.

Bullshit. No one is a 'master' of anything at 21 - and where is the tattoo committee awarding these designations?

Uneducated trash.

Oh - and if she spent over a million, let alone 1.8 million, to live in a run-down Victorian on the Kentucky border, next to nothing - then GOOD. A fool is easily parted with their money.

She's never going to be able to sell that thing for more than 500,000.

Beautiful exterior, ugly interior with horrid patterned wallpaper and carpeting and tasteless furniture. My favorite part of the house was the basement.

It looks destined to be a bed and breakfast. Years ago, I knew someone who had lived in the town---named for a place in Switzerland, it's set in rolling hills near the Ohio River. Pretty but it's in Indiana, you know exactly when you cross the state line.

In Vevay you can literally look across the Ohio River to Kentucky. You'll see broken-down trailers and people fishing....fishing to have something to eat that day.

I'll bet anything she bought that place without going there in person. She has no idea what she's in for and I'll admit I'm enjoying the schadenfreude.

So many corruption!!

To the idiot who said “I don’t know who she is” but commented anyway - she’s the most popular female tattoo artist known for her black and grey and portraits.

Mentally, she’s always been fucked and still is apparently.

How many sq ft is this house?

Ever since the Markle-Windsors moved to California, everyone is upset and leaving.

The only thing haunted is her pussy

R17 - so she just colors in a traced image in black and white basically. Is this really a 'talent'?

She married a guy with a swastika tattoo and sent antisemitic notes to her Jewish boss. I hope she gets coronavirus.

She knows, R4, she's pretty clearly a deplorable herself.

She’s made an absolute fortune with her cosmetics line. She’s better known for that now that being a tattoo artist.

But somehow she's not actually leaving California, is she.

Are those red parts on what looks like an antique stove in the kitchen original? I've never seen an old stove with colored parts. I've also never seen a huge red refrigerator like that one either, and hope I never do again.

She sho' is ugly.

R24 Kylie Jenner has also made a fortune. Women love makeup, especially young ones.

She is really ugly, I thought she was a model and I expected to find pics of her looking good, at least when she was young, but instead she looks like some checkout girl in Montana who is going through a drugstore goth makeup phase.

Love the striped roof.

Why would anyone buy her makeup, she can't even make her eyes look the same size!

R31 The same reason they buy kylie's makeup. No taste and love cheap garbage.

But these get filthy rich off of it.

Oh my! What an exclusive and glamorous area she bought in! Seriously, you can find a lot better places that are not located in Methville, or maybe the trash just wanted to go back to the landfill.

Out of curiosity I looked up Kat Von D makeup and that shit is expensive. Her "vegan" lipstick is $21. What a fucking scam this makeup shit is.

The lensing in the real estate photo set is very very odd. Also what did someone cover almost the entire house in wall to wall carpet???

On and finally it looks like it has old windows and no storms. With those ceilings (nice height!) its going to be so drafty and cold in the winter.

[quote]Fuck this dumb racist asshole.

Racist?

A haunted house is no where near as scary as actually living in Indiana itself. Horror to every one of your senses .

[quote]Are those red parts on what looks like an antique stove in the kitchen original? I've never seen an old stove with colored parts. I've also never seen a huge red refrigerator like that one either, and hope I never do again.

Modern appliances designed to look antique, Needs a new roof and she will spend a fortune painting every room black.

Of course the house is haunted. It’s where good taste went to die.

I get her mixed up with Dita Von Teaze. They are both make up artists? How is she racist? She def looks woke in the pictures.

Googled her and she she looks like the goth version of Rummer Willis.

R40, same here as far as DVT - in fact that's who I thought this was until I saw her face.

35 years from now, she'll be on an episode of hoarders half crazy out of her mind in the that big ass house and paranoid as hell, that thing in the basement is going to get her.

Dita is a burlesque artist, and was briefly and unhappily married to Marilyn Manson. She’s not a racist.

Previously owned by Jack, of Jack's Discount Carpet Warehouse. And something tells me there's a reason why there are no pics of what could probably be the coolest rooms in the house...the turret. It was perhaps a commercial space at one time, since there are fire alarm pulls all through it?

No clue who she is, and don't care, but I'm sure she'll fit right in with her fellow Indianans. Hopefully, she'll make the move permanently. More money than sense.

R44 The poster above says this Kat Von D, not Dita, is the racist.

Yeah, those aren't vintage appliances in the kitchen, those are Heartland brand "classic" appliances, overpriced new fridges and stoves meant to look vintage.

OK, I went down a bit of a rabbit hole, but who knew that girls into the “pin up” look of the 40s were racist?

I'd say $1,874,000 is about right. The house is more than 10,500 sq ft and sits on more than 10 acres of land.

That sounds about right to me.

Good for her.

Indiana is a shithole state, Miss Von D will fit right in with the natives.

Ooh, I did, R48. I once knew a lady who seemed very nice and I even sent her an antique necklace I had which I had no use for, thinking she'd be able to use it in her vintage outfits, then about a month later saw her posting all her Nazi memorabilia and cosplay stuff on vintage lifestyle forums. She was a big fan o' Nazis! So were most people on the vintage lifestyle forum. Very freakish.

This home has some interesting and significant history tied to a prominent family that once lived in the area.

It makes me sad that this house needs a good restoration and Knowing Kat, it will get gutted of all its remaining historical elements that make it what it is. Expect blown out walls and painted woodwork at the minimum.

I have no problem with edgy and modern, but why do this to a beautiful historical site if you can build a dream spaceship somewhere better?

Then again, I’m just speculating. She could be interested in preservation and surprise us.

Maybe she moved there for the drugs!

Love the mansion. But it's disheartening that Kat cannot only afford it, but purchased it.

Wow R51 that is fascinating! I myself am a bit of a 30s and 40s buff because I love the Black music from that time - particularly the criminally underlooked Bill Kenny. The women’s clothes are OK, never paid too much attention to them. This is a very interesting take.

I hope Dita Von Teese isn't a racist. I loved her tour of her house. Altho anyone who marries Marilyn Manson is a bit nutty. Kat named one of her lipsticks after the Nazi practice of separating Jews from work or death camps. Her Argentian by way of Germany grandma is her biggest influence.

It looks straight out of "Raintree County", which is depressing. You might as well be in the bad parts of Alabama when you’re in southern Indiana.

I agree that the only appealing part of the house is the basement. Can you imagine how drafty that house has to be? I need a blanket just thinking about it.

Hope it falls down on the racist cunt fleabag.

There are better pics here, on the Zillow site.

She’s an antivaxxer, too.

Yup. She poisoned her brand and then sold it. I liked the tattoo eyeliner but I found Pat McGrath's who has the best makeup of all time and is a black owned business

What is her connection to Indiana? Is this where she's originally from?

She sold her makeup line? I guess she's independently wealthy now. That the best type of wealth. Plenty of money in the bank and you can whatever you want, no job no worries.

Completely independent!

Why would you buy a haunted house if you have a kid?

I can't decide if they will stick-out like the Munsters in that Podunk backwater... or she'll just blend-in with all the other tattooed hicks..

The pics are the same on both sites. And they are sucky pics taken with a very wide angle from a very low angle.

The kid is already soaking in a certain aesthetic, r64.

Dad seems to be going for the Heterosexual Karl Lagerfeld look, R67. Unpleasant.

R13 It's opposite for me. Ugly on the outside, pretty on the inside

It looked to me like it was already operating as a B&B. Lots of tables and chairs on the porch, the reception desk in the entry room with souvenir pamphlets, the bedroom to bathroom ratio.

R51 Just because someone is into Nazi memorabilia doesn't mean they are neo-nazis themselves. Lemmy was a big collector of nazi memorabilia. He wasn't a Nazi. Say what you will about nazis, but they sure had good taste when it comes to clothes, cars, jewelry, weapons etc.

"This jacket worn by the guy who ordered the extermination of 500,000 Jews is super stylish!"

@r67, if that's her "family" I would say that they now have the whole Adams Family aesthetic nailed

There goes the neighborhood.

I hope daddy doesn't change diapers with these claws.

The whole family is yuck.

Add her to the little st of rich assholes that don’t want to pay taxes. Surprised she didn’t move to Florida.

Indiana is one of those states like Idaho that just have bad racist connotations for me. Idaho personally and Indiana thro reading about it. And yes, her face is malformed. I guess she bred with the pinhead hoping to cancel that out.

Switzerland County is actually quite pretty, and superficially has some tourism (beautiful old architecture, big casino nearby). Some faux Swiss heritage and has a bit wine culture (as good as it gets for Indiana).

Closer to Cincinnati than Indianapolis.

If nothing else, southern Indiana's contractors will be busy. She bought the [italic]Cheaper by the Dozen[/italic] house from Roald Dahl's daughter, painted the exterior the color of dried blood, and did room after room of this:

The pool, before:

And after:

There are probably 50 meth labs in a 3-mile radius. I'd be terrified to spend a night there.

I actually like the house. Then, i saw the pics about what she is going to do with it.

if she makes this house her permanent residence, then she cannot vote in any recall measures.

How much did she sell the makeup company for?

Nice house but she’s an idiot and who the fuck wants to live in Indiana?

People move to indiana because their conduct is no longer acceptable to people in metropolis centers and blue states.

probably a money pit

I never realized how ugly she was. And her husband too. Just imagine how unfortunate looking that kid will be when he grows up.

She bought alll these houses from selling makeup?! What’s so great about her makeup that wasn’t already offered by Cover Girl and Urban Decay? It’s not like clothing where you can have different designs and fabrics. Makeup is just the same thing over and over in different colors: lipsticks, blusher, eyeliner...

It sucks when shitty people have money.

She's like 10 cm taller than her husband

Makeup is not the same thing over and over. There’s differences in pigmentation, for example. A high end brand should be more pigmented and have longer staying power. Just like if you were a first year art student, you would use student grade paints and brushes , whereas a pro would be painting with high grade paints and brushes.

The shareholders of Kat’s company basically forced her out because they were losing sales due to her racism. And she was once rather pretty, but completely fucked up her face with cosmetic procedures in her 20’s.

R93 Never thought about that but it makes sense. When I was I junior high and high school, the girls would buy this cheap make up at CVS called (I kid you not) “Wet and Wild.” The displays and colors fascinated me. I guess the quality was terrible, though.

What did she say that was racist? I’m really curious.

Definitely going to fit in nowheresville Indiana as an immigrant Mexican/Argentinian know-it-all high school drop out (that part might fit in, not the rest). She supposedly wants to concentrate on her music and tour with her new album's nonexistent hits.

They're going to love being in a small town where the sidewalks are rolled up at dusk, nothing open on Sunday, hospitals, clinics, specialists of any kind way over in Cincinnati.

Supposedly, she back-tracked about vaccinations, saying she opened her big mouth too soon, and spoke from a place of ignorance. That fits.

Thanks, R47. I never heard of "Heartland Appliances" and it appears that they went out of business in 2019. Just as well, the pictures of their products on the blog at their website are unappealing. I'm not real familiar with old kitchen appliances but I have seen a few and none had big brightly colored enamel panels, so these don't look authentic. And don't even get me started on their "Heartland Classic Dishwasher"!

The house is charming, the location less appealing, the people who now own it not at all.

[quote] Just like if you were a first year art student, you would use student grade paints and brushes , whereas a pro would be painting with high grade paints and brushes.

Art major here. I never bought "student grade" supplies. Not sure there is such a thing. I continued to use my same art supplies (brushes & paints) after I graduated.

I think she was one of the first big name brands that touted itself to be vegan as well. What most men don't realize is that makeup is an impulse purchase. You can buy the illusion of changing how you look for $21.

R99 I hand my thought of make up being an impulse buy but it makes sense. My mom used to buy her “frost” lipstick in the drugstore and her Lancôme mascara and that was it. She never perused makeup at a department store where you see all those great displays.

^never thought

Her makeup line was with Kendo, LVMH's product-development group which supplies Sephora. They built up enough of a presence with KVD, Fenty, Marc Jacobs, etc. that LMVH thought it was time to expand to other retail outlets.

She had been considered a liability for a long time but until they decided to branch out beyond Sephora (Debenhams in the UK, too, but I guess they never raised a fuss?) it was an LVMH family feud.

They couldn't afford to be associated with her when it was time to go into other retail outlets. Her last scandal at LVMH was the anti-vax thing but as far as they were concerned, she was history at that point. Why she wasn't history with "Selektion" is the question.

I looked up “Kat Von D racist” and found that:

1. She was accused of writing an antisemitic letter to a boss who fired her (I didn’t read the letter). That is troubling if true.

2. She dated a guy who used the N word (the context wasn’t included - was it “ni66er” the slur, or the typical wigger “ni66a,” which is more of a rap music reference?) and was “rumored” to be a Nazi. What was the basis of this? The band, New Order flirted with Nazi imagery but aren’t themselves Nazis, as far as I know. Context is important. Also, this was her boyfriend, not Von d herself.

3. She accused another make up artist of being racist and publicly ended her association and friendship with him. That doesn’t make her racist.

4. She was accused of not having a diverse enough “team”. How many people does she have on her team? That makes a difference. Is her “team” all just her friends? Again, doesn’t make her racist, but may indicate all her friends are white women, or whatever.

Anyway, I’m not particularly interested in her, but I was intrigued that several (or maybe the same person) on this thread kept referring to her as “racist” but wouldn’t elaborate. The charge of “racist” has been so weaponized. Not sure it’s going to carry much weight in the future if it continues to be overused and watered down....pick your battles wisely.

Makeup is strange these days. I know a lot of very homely girls who spend thousands of dollars on it annually yet only appear to wear it maybe once a week.