Currently active at 2.5M and on the market for 152 days. Not sure where you saw the 4.5M but the original list price when it came on the market was 3.9M and it was listed on 3/27/07. Perhaps it was listed before that at 4.5M but I didn’t find it in my search. I typed Old Winery in the street name and searched from there. So maybe I missed it.
They bought the home for 1.65M in July of 04. I don’t know the original financing on it but they have a recording on 10/05 for 170k, then another for 360k on 11/05 then another for 1.8M on 11/05 and then another for 990k on 11/30. The timing of the refinances appears to indicate that they were pulling some hanky panky on the lenders.
These people will easily loose their home and the lenders will have seen a million bucks evaporate.