The Villa La Leopolda is a large separated villa in Villefranche-sur-Mer, in the Alpes-Maritimes compartment on the French Riviera. The villa is established on 7.3 hectares and 18 acres of foundation. The villa has had various notable owners involving Gianni and Marella Agnelli, Izaak, and Dorothy J. Killam, and, afterward 1987, Edmond 1932–1999 and Lily Safra 1934–2022, who assume the villa after her husband's departure from life.
The villa was used as the situation of Lermontov's villa in the 1948 film The Red Shoes. The heroine ascends the steps to the villa reasonably that she's been invited to dinner. Alternatively, she would be given the displaying role in the new ballet. There's a different recommendation saying that the house used in To Catch a Thief is Château de la Croix-des-Gardes, 145 Boulevard Leader, not Villa Leopolda, The banker Bill Browder recounted visiting Safra at the Villa Leopolda with Beny Steinmetz in his 2014 memoir Red Notice. Dependability was on condition for Safra at the villa by a team of sometimes Israeli professional soldiers. The Safras lived some 10 miles from the Villa Leopolda, in a penthouse accommodation in Monaco.