The London house where lauded English actors Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh hid their affair and later lived as husband and wife failed to sell at auction with a final bid of $11.6 million, only to be listed days later for $12.6 million. The former coachman's cottage was last sold in January for just $2.4 million, and an online petition is trying to earn it landmark status before it changes hands again. [Curbed National]
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