Famous ‘Grey Gardens’ home hits the market for $19.95 million – AOL News

The gorgeous gray-shingled mansion at 3 West End Road, East Hampton, better known as Grey Gardens, has hit the market for $19.95 million.

The home, previously occupied by Jackie Kennedy relatives "Big Edie" and "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale, was made famous in the 1975 documentary film, "Grey Gardens," which uncovered the pair's shocking living conditions.

Plagued by limited funds, the mother and daughter retreated into isolation and resided for decades in the once-handsome home that fell into a state of disrepair and decay, infested by fleas, inhabited by numerous cats and raccoons, deprived of running water and filled with garbage. Health inspectors even reported spotting human waste in the upstairs bedrooms.

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'Grey Gardens' home then and now

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EAST HAMPTON, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - JANUARY 8: Edith Bouvier (first cousin of Jackie Onassis) Beale at her home 'Grey Gardens' on January 8, 1972 in New York, United States. (Photo by Tom Wargacki/WireImage)

EAST HAMPTON, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - JANUARY 8: Edith Bouvier (first cousin of Jackie Onassis) Beale at her home 'Grey Gardens' on January 8, 1972 in New York, United States. (Photo by Tom Wargacki/WireImage)

EAST HAMPTON, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - JANUARY 8: Edith Bouvier (first cousin of Jackie Onassis) Beale at her home 'Grey Gardens' on January 8, 1972 in New York, United States. (Photo by Tom Wargacki/WireImage)

Visitors outside Grey Gardens, home of Edith Bouvier Beale (aka 'Little Edie,' first cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill), on 3 West End Ave in Georgica Pond, East Hampton, New York. September 1, 1972. (Photo by Ron Galella/WireImage)

Edith Bouvier Beale poses near the Paris Theater in New York, where the controversial film Grey Gardens is playing. Some critics have labeled the film 'exploitative' while others have praised it. Edith Bouvier Beale and her mother, relatives of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, live in a decaying mansion on Long Island. The movie brings viewers inside their home and into their lives and relationship with each other.

'Little' Edith Bouvier Beale (1917 - 2002, right), a cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, at home with her mother 'Big Edie' (1896 - 1977) in Grey Gardens, a run-down mansion in East Hampton, New York, 1974. This is a scene from the Maysles brothers documentary 'Grey Gardens'. (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images)

'Little' Edith Bouvier Beale (1917 - 2002), a cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, at home with her mother, 'Big Edie' (1896 - 1977), in Grey Gardens, a run-down mansion in East Hampton, New York, circa 1975. (Photo by Tom Wargacki/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

Edith Bouvier Beale (aka 'Little Edie,' first cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill), at home in Grey Gardens in Georgica Pond, East Hampton, New York. September 1, 1972. (Photo by Ron Galella/WireImage)

Visitors outside Grey Gardens, home of Edith Bouvier Beale (aka 'Little Edie,' first cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill), on 3 West End Ave in Georgica Pond, East Hampton, New York. September 1, 1972. (Photo by Ron Galella/WireImage)

Edith Bouvier Beale (1917 - 2002), a cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, at home in Grey Gardens, a run-down mansion in East Hampton, New York, circa 1975. (Photo by Tom Wargacki/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

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"Little Edie" sold the house in 1979 after her mother's death for $220,000 ($726,000 today) to current owners Sally Quinn and Ben Bradlee, who restored the dilapidated home, maintaining the original gray shingle color -- a Hamptons signature.

Despite keeping the original structure of the home, there is hardly any trace of the mansion's former condition.

Featuring seven bedrooms and six and a half baths, the home oozes grandeur with tasteful touches that invoke its storied history, like warm hardwood floors, a terracotta-tiled sunroom and Tudor-style diamond-paned bay windows.

In addition to a Har-Tru tennis court and heated swimming pool, a quaint stucco cottage sits on the property's lush (yet manicured) two-acre grounds.

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