It’s been a little more than three decades since Basic Instinct first hit the big screen, but folks are still talking about the erotic thriller that thrust Sharon Stone into the limelight—primarily because of the infamous scene where her character Catherine Tramell goes au naturel during a police interrogation.

More recently making its own headlines is the Highlands abode Tramell called home in the much-ballyhooed film. Part of an expansive complex of oceanfront residences along a craggy, cypress-lined cliff and known collectively as Seacliff, the 5.4-acre spread was acquired by software entrepreneur Gary Vickers in 2018 for $14.4 million and popped up for sale a year later with a $52.4 million price tag.

Subsequently removed from the market and extensively reconstructed and expanded

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