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Madonna forked over a cool $19.3 million for The Weeknd's 12,500-square-foot California estate in April 2021.
Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi purchased their 10,300-square-foot Beverly Hills mansion in May 2019 for $45 million from Maroon 5 front man Adam Levine, the New York Post reports. They sold the five-bedroom, nine-bathroom home for $47 million in April 2021.
In 2014, the 'Hunger Games' actress spent $6.4 million on Jessica Simpson's old Beverly Hills mansion, which was also previously owned by Ellen DeGeneres back in 2001.
Jenner dropped $6.5 million in 2016 for John Krasinski and Emily Blunt's 4,800-square-foot Hollywood Hills home, according to TMZ.
In 2016, the 'Today' show host spent over $36 million for Richard Gere's spacious 12-bedroom, 12-bath estate in the Hamptons, nicknamed Strongheart Manor. Lauer put it up for sale, however, three years later.
The model and the singer bought Rihanna's 8,520-square-foot home in Beverly Hills for $14.1 million. It apparently has ocean, city, and canyon views.
Actress Eva Longoria spent $11.4 million on Tom Cruise's old 2.5-acre European-style Hollywood Hills estate, which boasts panoramic views over the San Fernando Valley.
Kaley Cuoco and her now ex-husband Ryan Sweeting paid $5.49 million in 2014 to move into former couple Khloé Kardashian and Lamar Odom's seven-bedroom, nine-bathroom, 8,000-square-foot mansion in Tarzana, California.
After the couple bought Brad Pitt's home, Ryan Seacrest moved in to buy their old home, spending $37 million on their modern Beverly Hills estate.
Jessica Simpson herself set her sights on a bigger property: the Osbourne family's Hidden Hills home, for which she paid $11.5 million.
The hip-hop mogul dropped an incredible $40 million in 2014 on the massive Brentwood estate that NFL star Tom Brady and model Gisele Bündchen once called home.
In 2011, Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi spent $12 million on Brad Pitt's four-bedroom Malibu beach home. Four bedrooms doesn't sound like much, but DeGeneres knows good real estate when she sees it.
The 'Big Bang Theory' actor handed over around $6.37 million in 2014 to buy Robert Pattinson's 4,026-square-foot, three-bed, three-bath Los Feliz house, which boasts gorgeous gardens, a lagoon-style swimming pool, and a library.
Khloé herself upgraded houses and forked over $7.2 million for Justin Bieber's 9,214-square-foot mansion in Calabasas.
In 2011, British action star Jason Statham dropped $7.35 million to buy Ben Stiller's Spanish-style house in Hollywood Hills, which had been built in 1929. Statham put it up for sale in 2015, and 'Big Bang Theory' actor Johnny Galecki bought it!
In 2013, Alicia Keys and husband Swizz Beatz bought their 25,000-square-foot, eight-bedroom New Jersey mansion from comedian Eddie Murphy. They sold it two years later, however, for $14.9 million.
In 2017, the prolific producer forked over $9.9 million for Robbie Williams' 10,681-square-foot, seven-bed, 11-bath Beverly Hills mansion.
Selena Gomez listed her 8,618-square-foot Mediterranean-style mansion in Calabasas for about $4.5 million back in 2015, but rapper French Montana reportedly picked it up for $3.3 million.
In 2017, the model spent $8.55 million on Charlie Sheen's 6,625-square-foot Spanish-style mansion in Beverly Hills.
The home has a villa-type main house with three en suite bedrooms, along with a secondary house with four bedrooms and four bathrooms. There is also a lagoon-style swimming pool, a trellis-shaded dining terrace, a children's playground, and a detached three-car garage.
The massive waterfront property features a basketball court, pool, pond, and an "island inspired tea house," and it's said Gere originally listed it for $65 million.
The Hidden Hills mansion has seven bedrooms and 9.5 bathrooms, nearly three acres of grassy lawn, and includes multiple terraces, a pool and spa, an office, a wine cellar, a fitness studio, a theater, a barn, a five-car garage, a guest house, and a basketball court.
The impressive house has seven bedrooms and eight bathrooms, and it includes a home theater, gym, saltwater pool with hot tub, wood-burning oven and chef's grill, and a two-car garage. The couple put it on the market, however, in 2021.
The gated Beverly Hills abode has a two-story foyer, a huge living room with a stone fireplace, a theater with its own bar, a gym, a wine cellar, and the master suite also has a heated spa bath.
It has six bedrooms, five baths, a pool, jetliner views, and Jimmy Kimmel lived right next door!
The 5,500-square-foot home is relatively modest, with five bedrooms, a charming stone courtyard, a koi pond, and an in-ground pool, and all shrouded in the privacy of surrounding trees.
The Spanish-style mansion has hand-painted tiles, a 200-bottle wine cellar, six fireplaces, a swimming pool with a spa, and a "casita" for guests.
The gorgeous Mediterranean-style home is ringed by palm trees and offers a pool, hot tub, and views of downtown Los Angeles. The house was actually put on full display in the E! reality show 'Khloe & Lamar.'
There is a 12,000-square-foot main house, as well as an outdoor living area, a pool, a fitness center, underground garage space, as well as two guesthouses!
It comes with six bedrooms, a guest apartment, a brick fireplace, a home theater and studio, and a pool and spa, all on two and a half acres of land.
Situated on over five acres, the mansion has eight bedrooms and even more bathrooms! It also includes a movie theater, indoor swimming pool, bowling alley, and professional recording studio.
The 18,298 square feet of living space includes a grand foyer, a library, a gym, a sauna, five bedrooms, nine bathrooms, seven fireplaces, covered terraces, and balconies. The exterior boasts gardens, waterfalls, ponds, an infinity pool, and walking pathways. But the coolest part is that it's all solar powered!
The house is situated on a bit of a cliff that faces Point Mugu State Park on one side and the Pacific Ocean on the other, and it features spectacular ocean views from those floor-to-ceiling windows. It also has beach access to a private cove, three fireplaces, and a tennis court.
At over 5,000 square feet, the house includes six beds and baths, formal living and dining rooms, a den, library, office, theater, and gym. Outside offers a variety of beautiful verandas, terraces, and balconies, colorfully tiled fountains, an outdoor fireplace, and, of course, a swimming pool.
The gated estate, nicknamed the Seyler House, has actually housed quite a few high-profile names in its past, almost exclusively in the film and TV industries, including Tim Curry, Noah Wylie, Oscar-winning cinematographer Robert Richardson, and director Robert Luketic ('Legally Blonde').
Special features of the five-bedroom home include a $400,000 recording studio, a guesthouse, a gym, a movie theater, and a wine cellar. Montana put it up for sale in 2021.
Features include a huge home gym, an expansive kitchen with a butler's pantry, and an outdoor kitchen, pool, and spa. DJ Khaled sold the property, however, in 2021.
Features of the five-bedroom, six-bathroom residence include a movie theater, an office, a huge marble-laid kitchen, an outdoor fountain, an expansive pool, lawn, fire pit, tennis court, and even a fully equipped playground.
Sources: (ELLE) (Architectural Digest) (New York Post) (TMZ)
Sylvester Stallone's 30,000-square-foot (2,787-square-meter) property in the prestigious 90210 zip code went up for sale, and in 2022 Adele became the new owner! The singer made an offer of $58 million, which is astonishingly being described as a bargain by real estate experts. A previous offer for the house was $80 million, and Stallone originally wanted a mind-boggling $110 million. However, it seems he settled for Adele's "low-ball" offer. It appears the singer has new neighbors like Dwayne Johnson, Justin Bieber, and Mark Wahlberg.
Burgeoning real estate mogul Adam Levine bought Rob Lowe's former mansion, which is extra special because the actor had it custom built! Lowe and his wife reportedly purchased the land upon which the mansion stands back in 2005 for about $7.5 million, then built a roughly 10,000-square-foot spread, said to be inspired by the architectural style of the Virginia countryside, where Lowe spent time as a kid, according to the NY Post. The Maroon 5 frontman and his wife Behati Prinsloo forked over a cool $52 million for the Montecito mansion.
The impressive mansion and its grounds boasts six bedrooms, eight bathrooms, a piano bar, a home theater, a swimming pool, an outdoor living room with a fireplace, a guest house, and a tennis court.
The celebrity real estate market is, as one might expect, lavish beyond our regular income dreams. But one surprising aspect of the market is that these over-the-top, beautiful homes appear to be few in number, so much so that many stars have actually lived in the homes that others have traded out for even more lavish homes. In some cases, the famous buyers attribute some extra magic to the homes where admired musicians, actors, or athletes have once lived.
Usually, when you buy a house, you don't know much or anything at all about the previous tenants, but there are a number of celebrities who have bought their homes from other celebrities whose histories while they lived in those homes were made quite public.
Cassandra Peterson, best known as 'Elvira, Mistress of the Dark,' was very clear about the "haunted" history of her LA home before she sold it to Brad Pitt in 1994 for a reported $1.7 million. "We were just kind of warning him that a lot of weird things have been going on there in the house since we moved in," Peterson recalled in an interview with People. "And he was very excited about that. He thought that was really cool."
"I've seen people walking around upstairs, for example, real people just walking. One time [a ghost was] sitting downstairs in front of the fireplace, once walking into my bedroom and back out," Peterson added. In another instance, "We saw a person floating around at the bottom of the pool, things like that." She said she knows how it sounds, especially coming from her, but she swore she was sober. She even "had a priest come in to do an exorcism" on the 29-room mansion. "So we were telling Brad all about that and he loved it. I mean, there are not many buyers who that would be a selling point for, but he was like, 'Oh, that's so awesome.' I love that he appreciated the house so much."
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Pitt shared the property—which he completely renovated and extended with a swimming pool, tennis court and skating rink—with his ex-wife Angelina Jolie and their six children before the couple split in 2016. After nearly 30 years in the neighborhood of Los Feliz, he sold it on March 29, 2023, after listing it for $40 million a few months prior.
Celebs who bought homes from other celebs
Elvira says LA mansion Brad Pitt bought from her is extremely "haunted" but "he loved it"
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The celebrity real estate market is, as one might expect, lavish beyond our regular income dreams. But one surprising aspect of the market is that these over-the-top, beautiful homes appear to be few in number, so much so that many stars have actually lived in the homes that others have traded out for even more lavish homes. In some cases, the famous buyers attribute some extra magic to the homes where admired musicians, actors, or athletes have once lived.
Usually, when you buy a house, you don't know much or anything at all about the previous tenants, but there are a number of celebrities who have bought their homes from other celebrities whose histories while they lived in those homes were made quite public.
Cassandra Peterson, best known as 'Elvira, Mistress of the Dark,' was very clear about the "haunted" history of her LA home before she sold it to Brad Pitt in 1994 for a reported $1.7 million. "We were just kind of warning him that a lot of weird things have been going on there in the house since we moved in," Peterson recalled in an interview with People. "And he was very excited about that. He thought that was really cool."
"I've seen people walking around upstairs, for example, real people just walking. One time [a ghost was] sitting downstairs in front of the fireplace, once walking into my bedroom and back out," Peterson added. In another instance, "We saw a person floating around at the bottom of the pool, things like that." She said she knows how it sounds, especially coming from her, but she swore she was sober. She even "had a priest come in to do an exorcism" on the 29-room mansion. "So we were telling Brad all about that and he loved it. I mean, there are not many buyers who that would be a selling point for, but he was like, 'Oh, that's so awesome.' I love that he appreciated the house so much."
Click through to see which stars have bought homes from other stars, and get a glimpse at what the properties look like too!
All amounts in USD.