Is it all downhill from here?
Powerball lottery winner Edwin Castro’s West Hollywood manse was narrowly missed by a landslide this week, aerial images showed — as the crumbling hillside buried half a neighboring home in dirt.
Castro’s $25.5 million sprawl was just feet away from the landslide that crashed through the tony Hollywood Hills neighborhood following this week’s storm, according to images obtained by the US Sun.
Neighbors told the owner about the damage just a few days before he was supposed to move back in. The Sun US / MEGAIt is unclear whether Castro’s home is in any danger for further landslides. The Post has reached out to local officials.
Hollywood Hills is not expected to see any rain over the next seven days, according to Fox Weather.
The damaged house — which is located just above the famous Chateau Marmont hotel — was undergoing renovations at the time of the slide, KTLA reported.
The owner was just a few days away from moving into the house with his family when he got the devastating news on Wednesday night, he told the outlet.
One neighbor captured the landslide on cellphone video.
The landslide did about $500,000 in damage to Castro’s West Hollywood home.
Powerball winner Edwin Castro’s Hollywood Hills mansion narrowly avoided the mess. The US Sun/MEGA“The hill is giving, oh my gosh!” the neighbor can be heard saying in the footage. “And it’s making all sorts of noises, like it’s cracking.”
“We were home yesterday and suddenly we heard the bang and we came outside. We saw all this dirt came down at 5 o’clock in the afternoon,” another neighbor, David Marvisi, told KTLA.
“I believe it’s about $500,000 dollars to fix this. The house is about $50,000 in damage but he needs a shotcrete because his property starts from there and all the way to the end,” he added, noting that “there is no insurance that covers this.”
The landslide covered about half of the back of the house. ABC7The homeowner said that he is hoping the city will help offset some of the costs.
On Thursday, city inspectors and geologists inspected the damaged property and hillside, as well as the homes directly above the slide site.
Castro purchased his five-bedroom West Hollywood home for $25.5 million in March 2023, shortly after he claimed a one-off lump sum of $997.6 million from the Powerball lottery.






