The former Florida home of the late David Cassidy is up for rent.
Partridge Family star and 1970s icon Cassidy died in hospital on Tuesday after suffering from dementia and organ failure.
But the Fort Lauderdale mansion where he once lived is still going strong – and features plenty of Cassidy memorabilia alongside various luxuries.
The Fort Lauderdale mansion where he once lived is still going strong – and features plenty of Cassidy memorabilia alongside various luxuries
His former estate is on offer for between $1,200 and nearly $2,000 a night depending on the season. Pictured: One of the exquisite bedrooms
It features six bedrooms, six bathrooms, a private lake with a dock, a pool (pictured), spa, volleyball court and, of course, a stash of awards, posters and other Cassidy paraphernalia
Cassidy, who announced earlier this year that he had been diagnosed with dementia, died surrounded by his family, a family statement released by publicist JoAnn Geffen said. Pictured: The home from above
Kicked out of high school for truancy, David Cassidy dreamed of becoming an actor and had made appearances on Bonanza, Ironside and other programs before producers at ABC television asked him to audition for The Partridge Family. Pictured: His former Florida home
David Cassidy, the teen and pre-teen idol who starred in the 1970s sitcom The Partridge Family and sold millions of records as the musical group’s lead singer, died Tuesday at age 67
Doctors told the family that his only hope for survival was to undergo a liver transplant, but this was quickly ruled out since he would not have been able to withstand the surgery. Pictured: A pool table at his luxury former home
According to TMZ, his former estate is on offer for between $1,200 and nearly $2,000 a night depending on the season.
It features six bedrooms, six bathrooms, a private lake with a dock, a pool, spa, volleyball court and, of course, a stash of awards, posters and other Cassidy paraphernalia.
But it is only possible to rent it if you book a minimum of three nights.
He bought the home – which is available on Airbnb – in 2001 before selling it in 2015 for $2million.
Cassidy, who announced earlier this year that he had been diagnosed with dementia, died surrounded by his family, a family statement released by publicist JoAnn Geffen said.
The beautiful home features a pleasant garden and access to a private lake. But it is only possible to rent it if you book a minimum of three nights
He bought the home – which is available on Airbnb – in 2001 before selling it in 2015 for $2million. Pictured: One of the six bathrooms
Sitting on the dock of the bay: The home has its own private dock featuring extra-comfortable Muskoka chairs
Classy: The home also features lots of memorabilia connected with the 1970s icon. Pictured: The kitchen space
No further details were immediately available, but Geffen said on Saturday that Cassidy was in a Fort Lauderdale, Florida, hospital suffering from organ failure – a symptom of dementia.
‘David died surrounded by those he loved, with joy in his heart and free from the pain that had gripped him for so long,’ the statement said.
‘Thank you for the abundance and support you have shown him these many years.’
Cassidy had been on life support since Monday, according to TMZ.
Doctors told the family that his only hope for survival was to undergo a liver transplant, but this was quickly ruled out since he would not have been able to withstand the surgery.
At around noon on Tuesday, the family decided to remove Cassidy from life support.
Cassidy’s family was on hand to bid him farewell – including his brothers Shaun, Patrick and Ryan; his children Beau and Katie; and nephews and his ex-wife Sue Cassidy.
The Partridge Family aired from 1970-74 and was a fictional variation of the ’60s performers the Cowsills, intended at first as a vehicle for Shirley Jones, the Oscar winning actress and Cassidy’s stepmother.
Jones played Shirley Partridge, a widow with five children with whom she forms a popular act that travels on a psychedelic bus.
The cast also featured Cassidy as eldest son and family heartthrob Keith Partridge; Susan Dey, later of LA Law fame, as sibling Laurie Partridge and Danny Bonaduce as sibling Danny Partridge.
It was an era for singing families – the Osmonds, the Jacksons.
The Partridge Family never cracked the top 10 in TV ratings, but the recordings under their name, mostly featuring Cassidy, Jones and session players, produced real-life musical hits and made Cassidy a real-life musical superstar.
The 67-year-old Partridge Family star and singer was rushed to hospital in Florida three days ago and his condition was said to be ‘grim’
‘I’m very sad to hear about David Cassidy,’ tweeted Beach Boys legend Brian Wilson
‘Because his stardom was launched from a TV show much like the Monkees, many overlooked just how hugely popular David Cassidy was as a singer in the early 70s,’ MSNBC Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough tweeted
‘So sad to hear of the passing of David Cassidy,’ Harry Connick Jr tweeted. ‘He was always so kind to me – such a pleasure to have had him on my show… sending love and prayers to his family… R.I.P. friend’
‘Farewell David Cassidy, For some of us that travel the broad highway it’s just like that sometimes. May you rest In peace Brother,’ tweeted Lol Tolhurst, founding member of The Cure
‘My thoughts and prayers are with the family and loved ones of David Cassidy,’ disco era singing star Gloria Gaynor tweeted on Tuesday
Television host Larry King also paid tribute to Cassidy on his Twitter account on Tuesday
‘So sorry to hear about David Cassidy’s passing,’ tweeted Rick Springfield. ‘Godspeed’
‘Rest in peace, David Cassidy,’ actress Alyssa Milano tweeted on Tuesday
Former TV star Tom Arnold tweeted: ‘RIP David Cassidy. ‘Who my age did not want to look like, sound like, just be him when they were young? I was lucky to get to know the sweet & very funny real David as an adult & I still wanted to be him.’
Filmmaker Kevin Smith tweeted: ‘I grew up in an era before even cable TV, when The Partridge Family was already in reruns. David Cassidy’s Keith was one of my favorite TV characters. He was legit funny AND he could sing. The man entertained me during my childhood and even years later’
‘You were so sweet to me and you left us too soon,’ Oscar-winning actress Marlee Matlin tweeted. ‘To me and millions of us you were forever young. RIP.’
David Cassidy’s nephew, Jack Cassidy, also tweeted on Tuesday, paying homage to his late uncle
‘My heart is hurting,’ tweeted actress Alexa Vega. ‘You were an amazing tv daddy! Proud and honored to have worked with one of the best. Love and Prayers’
‘Heartbroken over the passing of David Cassidy,’ tweeted Marie Osmond. ‘He graced the covers of teen magazines with my brothers in the 70s. My condolences to his family’
‘My first crush was David Cassidy,’ Daily Show co-creator Lizz Winstead tweeted. ‘RIP David Cassidy, the man who made me feel a certain way I could not explain, and felt I shouldn’t ask my mom about’
‘So very sad to hear of David Cassidy passing away,’ tweeted actress Maureen McCormick, who played Marcia Brady on The Brady Bunch
The Partridges’ best known song, I Think I Love You, spent three weeks on top of the Billboard chart at a time when other hit singles included James Taylor’s Fire and Rain and Smokey Robinson and the Miracles’ The Tears of a Clown.
The group also reached the top 10 with I’ll Meet You Halfway and Doesn’t Somebody Want to be Wanted and Cassidy had a solo hit with Cherish.
‘In two years, David Cassidy has swept hurricane-like into the pre-pubescent lives of millions of American girls,’ Rolling Stone magazine noted in 1972.
‘Leaving: six and a half million long-playing albums and singles; 44 television programs; David Cassidy lunch boxes; David Cassidy bubble gum; David Cassidy coloring books and David Cassidy pens; not to mention several millions of teen magazines, wall stickers, love beads, posters and photo albums.’
Cassidy’s appeal faded after the show went off the air, although he continued to tour, record and act over the next 40 years, his albums including Romance and the awkwardly titled Didn’t You Used To Be?
He had a hit with I Write the Songs before Barry Manilow’s chart-topping version and success overseas with The Last Kiss, featuring backing vocals from Cassidy admirer George Michael.
He made occasional stage and television appearances, including an Emmy-nominated performance on Police Story.
Meanwhile, The Partridge Family remained popular in re-runs and Cassidy, who kept his dark bangs and boyish appearance well into middle age, frequently turned up for reunions and spoke often about his early success.
‘So many people come up to me and talk to me about the impact it (the show) had,’ he told Arsenio Hall in 1990.
Even while The Partridge Family was still in primetime, Cassidy worried that he was mistaken for the wholesome character he played.
He posed naked for Rolling Stone in 1972, when he confided that he had dropped acid as a teenager and smoked pot in front of the magazine’s reporter as he watched an episode of The Partridge Family and mocked his own acting.
Cassidy maintained an exhausting schedule during the show’s run, filming during the week and performing live shows over the weekend, but had plenty of time to indulge himself.
Katie Cassidy and David Cassidy are seen above arriving at the 9th annual Family Television Awards held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on November 28, 2007 in Los Angeles. David Cassidy acknowledged that he and his daughter had a distant relationship
In the memoir Could It Be Forever, he wrote of his prolific sex life and of rejecting Dey’s advances because she lacked the ‘slutty aspect of a female that I always found so attractive.’
Cassidy would endure personal and financial troubles. He was married and divorced three times, battled alcoholism, was arrested for drunk driving and in 2015 filed for bankruptcy.
Cassidy had two children, musician Beau Cassidy and actress Katie Cassidy, with whom he acknowledged having a distant relationship.
‘I wasn’t her father. I was her biological father but I didn’t raise her,’ he told People magazine in 2017.
‘She has a completely different life.’
Cassidy himself was estranged from his father.
Born in New York City in 1950, he was the son of actors Jack Cassidy and Evelyn Ward and half-brother of entertainer Shaun Cassidy.
David Cassidy’s parents split up when he was 5 and he would long express regret about Jack Cassidy, who soon married Shirley Jones, being mostly absent from his life.
David Cassidy stayed with his mother and by the early 1960s had moved to Los Angeles.
Kicked out of high school for truancy, David Cassidy dreamed of becoming an actor and had made appearances on Bonanza, Ironside and other programs before producers at ABC television asked him to audition for The Partridge Family, unaware that he could sing and intending at first to have him mime songs to someone else’s voice.
Cassidy, who only learned during tryouts that Jones would play his mother, worried that Keith Partridge would be a ‘real comedown’ from his previous roles.
‘I mean, how much could an actor do with a line like, “Hi, Mom, I’m home from school”, or “Please pass the milk?’” he wrote in his memoir.
In this August 27, 2009, file photo, David Cassidy reacts to the crowd after singing the national anthem before a baseball game between the Boston Red Sox and Chicago White Sox at Fenway Park in Boston
‘I didn’t see how it could do much for me. After all, I wasn’t the star of it. Shirley had top billing; I was just one of the kids.’
Tributes began pouring in for Cassidy on Tuesday evening.
‘I’m very sad to hear about David Cassidy,’ tweeted Beach Boys legend Brian Wilson.
‘There were times in the mid-1970s when he would come over to my house and we even started writing a song together.
‘He was a very talented and nice person. Love & Mercy to David and his family.’
‘Because his stardom was launched from a TV show much like the Monkees, many overlooked just how hugely popular David Cassidy was as a singer in the early 70s,’ MSNBC Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough tweeted.
‘A sad decline.’
‘So sad to hear of the passing of David Cassidy,’ Harry Connick Jr tweeted.
‘He was always so kind to me – such a pleasure to have had him on my show… sending love and prayers to his family… R.I.P. friend.’
‘Farewell David Cassidy, For some of us that travel the broad highway it’s just like that sometimes. May you rest In peace Brother,’ tweeted Lol Tolhurst, founding member of The Cure.
‘My thoughts and prayers are with the family and loved ones of David Cassidy,’ disco era singing star Gloria Gaynor tweeted on Tuesday.
‘[He was] part of a musical legacy via his role as Keith Partridge that brought music and laughter into the homes of millions,’ she tweeted.
Filmmaker Kevin Smith tweeted: ‘I grew up in an era before even cable TV, when The Partridge Family was already in reruns.
David Cassidy is seen with his son, Beau Cassidy (left), and then-wife Sue Shifrin in Las Vegas in 1998
‘David Cassidy’s Keith was one of my favorite TV characters. He was legit funny AND he could sing.
‘The man entertained me during my childhood and even years later.’
‘So sad to hear about David Cassidy,’ 1980s era rocker Richard Marx tweeted.
‘Met him at a gig about 10 years ago and he was incredibly warm and gracious. RIP.’
Former TV star Tom Arnold tweeted: ‘RIP David Cassidy.
‘Who my age did not want to look like, sound like, just be him when they were young?
‘I was lucky to get to know the sweet & very funny real David as an adult & I still wanted to be him.’
‘You were so sweet to me and you left us too soon,’ Oscar-winning actress Marlee Matlin tweeted.
‘To me and millions of us you were forever young. RIP.’
‘My heart is hurting,’ tweeted actress Alexa Vega.
‘You were an amazing tv daddy! Proud and honored to have worked with one of the best. Love and Prayers.’
Cassidy and his Partridge Family co-star Shirley Jones perform at the first annual TV Land Awards in Hollywood in March 2003
‘Heartbroken over the passing of David Cassidy,’ tweeted Marie Osmond.
‘He graced the covers of teen magazines with my brothers in the 70s. My condolences to his family.’
‘My first crush was David Cassidy,’ Daily Show co-creator Lizz Winstead tweeted.
‘RIP David Cassidy, the man who made me feel a certain way I could not explain, and felt I shouldn’t ask my mom about.’
‘So very sad to hear of David Cassidy passing away,’ tweeted actress Maureen McCormick.
McCormick played Marcia Brady on the hit 1970s TV sitcom The Brady Bunch.
‘He was always so kind and sweet to me. Our shows were both on Friday nights and deep down I dreamt of being a Partridge. His memory and love will live on in my [heart] forever. Love you David. Prayers to his family.’
Over the weekend Cassidy’s family revealed he was ‘near the end’ after being placed in an induced coma.
The 67-year-old Partridge Family star and singer was rushed to hospital in Florida three days ago.
A source told TMZ that his condition was ‘grim’ and his doctors were desperately seeking a kidney transplant
‘There’s really no issue anymore for a transplant. It’s futile,’ a source close to the family said.
Doctors have reportedly summoned Cassidy’s son and ex-wife back to the hospital for what could be their final farewells.
Cassidy had been in failing health for the last two months.
In February, the star revealed he was battling dementia after he fell on stage during a concert in Los Angeles. His mother, actress Evelyn Ward, and his grandfather also had the condition.
Cassidy is widely known for his starring role as Keith Partridge (center, back) on the 1970s series The Partridge Family
The star was rushed to hospital in Florida three days ago. The actor is pictured above as Keith Partridge in the mid-1970s
Fans were concerned for his well-being when he struggled through the gig in February.
He stumbled on stage and forgot some of his words, prompting fears he had started drinking again.
He told People magazine after the gig: ‘I was in denial, but a part of me always knew this was coming.’
Ward struggled with dementia until her death at 89 in 2012.
‘In the end, the only way I knew she recognized me is with one single tear that would drop from her eye every time I walked into the room. … I feared I would end up that way,’ Cassidy said.
Fans were concerned for his well-being when he struggled through the gig in February (above)
Fans were concerned for his well-being when he struggled through the gig in February
In February, the actor revealed he was battling dementia. His mother and his grandfather also had the condition. He is pictured during one of his last stage performances in March
Cassidy (top right) is pictured with the rest of the cast of the Partridge Family in 1970
‘I want to focus on what I am, who I am and how I’ve been without any distractions,’ he added. ‘I want to love. I want to enjoy life.’
Video emerged of the one-time teen heartthrob over the that showed him slurring, taking long breaks, telling rambling stories and even falling over at one point.
He told the audience he will no longer be touring.
While he vowed to make the show his last, he struggled to stay on his feet and play the guitar.
Issues in Cassidy’s personal life have been well-documented over the last few years.
He has filed for bankruptcy, divorced from third wife Sue Shifrin, has had multiple arrests, eye surgeries and went through a stint in rehab.
At the end of February, he sat down with Dr. Phil to discuss his diagnosis.
Dr. Phil told the singer that it appeared as though ‘there were times’ that Cassidy was ‘losing’ his place during the concert, to which Cassidy agreed.
‘And then you said at one point ‘I can tell you’re not gonna listen so, I’m just gonna leave,’ and you did slip off the stage at one point,’ Dr. Phil said.
Cassidy replied, ‘Not really slipped. No.’
But Dr. Phil told the singer, ‘well, you slipped on the stage’.
‘If you noticed I’m one of the few people who still have monitors in front,’ Cassidy stated, before Dr. Phil said the monitors are in place of using an ear piece.
The musician added: ‘And when you have spotlight in your eyes and you have five eyes surgeries as I’ve had… And I’ve talked a lot about it. You’ll see me there, I tripped on that.
‘But I certainly wasn’t intoxicated and it has nothing to do with why I’m leaving.
‘…certainly my dementia has a, has contributed to the reason why I don’t want to go out and I don’t want to hear, ‘Well, he looked like he was drunk or he looked like he was’ – I, I wasn’t.’
As a singer, Cassidy (pictured circa 1970) has sold more than 25million albums
Cassidy (pictured in London in 1972) rose to fame on television, but quickly became a worldwide sex symbol
Cassidy shared what he told his son, 26-year-old Beau Cassidy, about not wanting to succumb to the disease as his mother did.
‘I want you to promise me you’ll find a way to let me go and don’t let me live like that,’ the entertainer told Dr. Phil of what he said to Beau.
The singer, who has sold over 25 million albums, also shared the moment he realized he needed to see a doctor due to him experiencing his first symptoms of the brain disease.
When friends of yours or family members begin to say to you, ‘remember I just told you this two days ago’ and there’s no memory of it that’s when I began to be very concerned,’ Cassidy tearfully said.
Dr. Phil then asked if that’s what caused him to go and get checked out by a doctor.
‘Oh my God, yes,’ Cassidy replied. The actor said he was diagnosed about two-and-a-half years ago.
During the interview set to air Wednesday, Cassidy also discusses his current relationship with his family and his fear of being a burden to them.
His mother, the actress Evelyn Ward, struggled with dementia until her death at 89 in 2012.