PORTLAND — Performer Mia Malkova and producer Eli Tucker have announced their purchase of landmark Portland, Ore. property Blackberry Castle, which they will rebrand as an “exclusive content castle, for collaborating with top creators around the world.”
The purchase of the fanciful 2015 building — which had been listed at $7 million but was reportedly sold for slightly more than half that price — was completed in December 2020 as a partnership between Malkova, Tucker and another investor. The new enterprise was announced this weekend through a feature in The Oregonian newspaper.
“We love this castle because of its crazy themes,” Malkova told XBIZ. “I’m kinda geeky, so an eccentric fantasy-like castle fit my personality perfectly.”
Malkova expressed elation at the new challenge. “We hope to continue renovations to make the castle like an adult Disneyland to give viewers and visitors a one-of-a-kind experience,” she added.
This week Blackberry Castle has debuted its own Instagram page, where Malkova and Tucker showcase enticing vistas of the themed rooms. “We just took on the biggest project of our lives,” the couple posted. “The biggest risks yield the greatest of rewards though and the potential of this wonderful place is undeniable.”
Rooms include a private movie theatre with an 8.5-foot-long projector screen, “modeled after a vintage movie theater in Buenos Aires, Argentina,” featuring “a marquee and trompe l'oeil curtains are under a ceiling with a blue-painted sky.”
Other images show “a ceiling clock dial and compass, billed as the West Coast's largest,” which “hovers over the two-story circular library inside one of the castle's turrets,” and one of the bathrooms which “has a Roman spa theme with columns, jetted tub and a sauna.”
A Content Production Disneyland
The Oregonian article mentions that the castle will be optimized for adult content production. According to the paper, “the sale included furnishings and fantasy elements such as life-size suits of knights’ armor standing guard inside illuminated alcoves near the grand stairs.”
Malkova mentioned to the Oregonian that she “intends to pose as Rapunzel on one of the wrought-iron Juliet balconies; her 30-foot-long, blond wig dangling down the side of the stone façade.” Tucker, a “Treasure Island” fan, said he “has designed a pirate ship to rise from the floor of the glass-ceiling atrium.”
Tucker told the paper that his company, JMR Media Group (Muse, Mermaid Media and the Flux clothing company) “struck gold with increased viewership and sales, as people were stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic.”
Malkova and Tucker hope to entice many in the burgeoning field of adult content creation into renting the facilities.
“We’re looking to make it an adult Disneyland for content producers,” Tucker told the Oregonian, adding that Blackberry Castle will not be open to the public or offered as an event space.
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