Obama’s Friend Bought Robin’s Nest Estate Of Magnum PI & Tore It Down

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A permit was issued last week to demolish the 8,500-square-foot house in Waimanalo that was known as “Robin’s Nest” in the original series that starred Tom Selleck,

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The main house was built in 1933 by the family of former Hawaii state Rep. Eve Anderson, who sold the three-acre oceanfront estate in March 2015 for $8.7 million to Waimanalo Paradise LLC, a Delaware entity created by Martin Nesbitt, a Chicago businessman and close friend of Obama’s, and Nesbitt’s wife, Anita Blanchard.

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Robin's Nest (21.324917°N 157.679526°W) is the fictional beach front estate on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, which serves as the residence of the main characters. In the series, it is owned by renowned novelist Robin Masters, who employs Jonathan Higgins as the estate's caretaker and Thomas Magnum as its security expert. Higgins resides in the estate's main house while Magnum occupies the guest house.

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The grounds had been used for hundreds of years for raising green sea turtles for the Hawaiian royal family and includes a 500-by-50-foot stone wall that surrounds the former turtle-raising pond. Since 1978, the turtle pond has been on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Hawaii.[8][9] A residential estate since the early 1930s, comprising an 11,000-square-foot (1,000 m2) main house, a boathouse (which in the series appears as the guest house that Magnum occupies), a gatehouse, and private tennis court.

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In April 2018, the estate was demolished.

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