Despite an effort by his children to stop the sale, the late Don Ho's longtime family beach house in Lanikai has sold for $6.05 million, according to an online real estate database.

The eight-bedroom home at 1018 Mokulua Drive had been on the market off and on since October 2006, when Ho thought he could sell it for $10 million.

After his death last April, Ho's trust lowered the asking price to $6.8 million.

The sale had been in escrow for several months and closed Friday. The buyer's identity or current residence was not disclosed.

The home had been in the family since 1971.

Dondi Ho-Costa, one of Ho's children, had filed a petition in Circuit Court in January seeking enforcement of an "oral agreement" over rights to the home. Ho-Costa claimed her father broke a deal he made with her dying mother, Melva Ho. She died in June 1999 believing the home would be placed in a trust to benefit her children, Ho-Costa claimed in her court petition.

The couple had six children together, but Don Ho had four more from two different relationships. The children had assumed for years that the home had belonged to Melva Ho and her heirs.

The dispute has gone into mediation with an agreement to not discuss the matter publicly.

Neither the Realtors nor the trustees would discuss the sale.

"We are not able to make a comment," said Jace McQuivey, one of the three trustees who supervised the sale. "The parties have all agreed not to be making comments to the press."

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