[11] Early houses were designed by renowned architects Wallace Neff (1895–1982), Paul R. Williams (1894–1980), A. Quincy Jones (1913–1979), Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) and Harold Levitt (1922–2003).
[18] Celebrity residents have included Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Tony Curtis, Ray Charles, Howard Hughes, and Groucho Marx.
[8][23][24] Jeffrey Katzenberg, who co-founded DreamWorks, bought a $35 million, 8,704 square feet (808.6 m2) mansion in Trousdale Estates from Simon Ramo, an American physicist, engineer, and business leader.
[26] In July 2019, Uber co-founder Garrett Camp and his wife Eliza Nguyen bought an 11,000 square feet (1,000 m2) mansion for $72.5 million in Trousdale Estates.
[30] Trousdale Estates plays a role in Seasons Two and Three of the Showtime TV series Ray Donovan as the eponymous character attempts to buy a $4 million house in the neighborhood.