The tacky and excessive Oklahoma mansion real estate market is apparently booming!
Earlier this week, an over-the-top mansion located in the far southeast fringes of Oklahoma City, just an AWACS throw away from Tinker Air Force Base, hit the market for a cool $17.5 million.
As opposed to the infamous Rose Creek Mansion that looked like it was part of a boudoir LSD-fueled Alice in Wonderland set piece, this super mansion is kind of cool in a tacky, excessive, "Southside Richie Rich Swingers Just Won The Lottery" type of way.
It “sits on 36 breathtaking acres” and “offers an extraordinary 19,000 square feet of meticulously crafted living space.”
If that’s not big enough for you, have an open mind.
It features an impressive mix of gaudy and excessive decorating and comes equipped with just about every feature imaginable that a 12-year-old boy – or 35-year-old man-child – who was just granted unlimited wishes by a genie would ask for in a home, like a 70,000-gallon pool, expansive hot tub and grotto for marriage proposals, along with a bowling alley, indoor and outdoor basketball courts, multiple bar areas, a dance floor, performance stage, and even a live-in house manager.
As a result, it has gone viral in the Zillow Gone Wild realm:
Surprisingly, the house isn’t owned by a Disney voice-over artist who writes self-help books and communicates with dead people. It doesn’t belong to an Oil Overlord or Ogle brother either.
Meet Mr. Kenny Novotny – the quintessential everyman millionaire.
Wait. That's former aspiring Oklahoma politician Brittany Novotny. I have no clue if she and Kenny are related.
Here’s Kenny and his cougary wife Amber. They look like the type of rich people you'd see hanging out at a party with the Mathis brothers:
Kenny doesn’t come from old money or the OKC Aristocracy.
According to my 10 minutes of research, it looks like he made his small fortune as the founder of an IT contractor called CSI-Oklahoma. The firm was a fast-rising Oklahoma business in the mid-aughts, and made its mark by scoring a bunch of lucrative IT contracts with the Department of Defense and other government agencies. It’s nice to see someone benefit from wasteful government spending, huh?
Kenny apparently sold his business to the Delaware Tribe in 2014, which probably not coincidentally, is the same year he started building the mansion kids dream about when playing M.A.S.H.
He now works in the fledgling marijuana industry where he has to compete with an unregulated black market. That, and the likely six-figure annual operating cost of his mansion, could be why he’s selling it.
If Kenny and his wife look familiar, congrats – it’s probably because you’re Desmond Mason and have painted your autograph in their house...
Or you've simply watched an episode of something called Below Deck. I guess it’s some Bravo! reality show about a charter yacht crew and the wild and wacky guests they pamper and entertain.
Kenny, his wife, and their friends were apparently on a couple of episodes, where I think they all had orgies and got to share their hatred of onions with the world:
Anyway, we’d like to congratulate Kenny on his life and business success and wish him the best of luck in finding a rich person with just enough tacky and excessive taste to buy his Southside super mansion.
Stay with The Lost Ogle. We’ll keep you advised.
