Posts with tag Celebrity Real Estate

By Erika Riggs Jennifer Lopez might just be "Jenny from the Block," but her newest block might be a stretch of three acres in exclusive Water Mill, N.Y. According to the New York Post, Lopez has toured the estate several times with her twins and current boyfriend, 25-year-old Casper Smart. Lopez reportedly paid $10... Continue Reading »

By Catherine Sherman Breckin Meyer made his "Escape from L.A." on screen in '96. Now the actor, writer and producer is potentially escaping Beverly Hills, parting ways with his longtime residence, located at 2220 Bowmont Drive, Beverly Hills, Calif. Listed for $2.995 million, the 1936-built home has wood-beamed,... Continue Reading »

By Erika Riggs For sale: a home literally built on sweat and difficult workouts. Jillian Michaels, the raspy-voiced trainer who built a fitness empire through workout books, videos and starring on NBC's "The Biggest Loser," just listed her house for $2.45 million. The listing doesn't include an indoor gym in the... Continue Reading »

According to the Daily Mail, rock superstar Rod Stewart has just picked up the 10-bedroom Durrington House in Essex, about 30 miles northeast of London. It's not Stewart's first foray into the world of Jane Austen-style real estate -- he and his wife still own the seven-bedroom Wood House manse, an Essex estate once... Continue Reading »

By Erika Riggs This country girl has been digging the East Coast lately, at least in terms of her real estate purchases. According to TMZ and real estate blog The Real Estalker, country-pop princess Taylor Swift has purchased a waterfront mansion in Watch Hill, R.I.. for around $17 million. Last year she picked up a... Continue Reading »

As we've learned, Pope Francis hasn't needed the flashy homes that come along with being a high-ranking religious figure. (He's clearly not praying for the same things we are.) And even now that he has access to one of the grandest estates in the world -- the papal residence at the Vatican's Apostolic Palace -- he's... Continue Reading »

By Cristin Zweig Ryan Phillippe is more than $1 million poorer after the sale of his Hollywood Hills home. Property records show that the former Mr. Reese Witherspoon sold the Los Angeles home last Friday for $6 million. That's $1.175 million LESS than what he paid for the place when he purchased it in 2008 for $7.175... Continue Reading »

We were getting worried that glamour Hollywood couple Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas had dropped off the face of the earth. (Come on, what was the last notable movie either of them did?) But we realize it's because, like our girl Taylor, they've been keeping busy with real estate. The Oscar-winning couple have... Continue Reading »

We know that President Obama was a very good roommate. Now we're hearing from his former landlady, Johnsie Walsh, that he was also a very good tenant! He rented a very "plain Jane" and "meager" one-bedroom pad in Johnsie Walsh's Stanton Park, D.C., apartment building. At the time, Obama was just a senator, and though he... Continue Reading »

Kristina Kovalenko, princess of the tiny Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria (don't worry, it's not just you; we've never heard of it either), sure knows how to live like royalty in America. She's just put her posh New York City condo on the market, and it's worth every penny of the $8 million asking price. Well,... Continue Reading »

Billy Bob Thornton and Angelina Jolie's former home in Beverly Hills, Calif., sold on New Year's Eve, ringing in 2013 by shutting the door on the ex-power couple's burned-out romance. The home sold for $8 million -- nearly $2 million less than Thornton listed it for in October -- listing service Zillow... Continue Reading »

Just months after the self proclaimed "Material Girl" listed her swanky townhouse on New York City's Upper West Side, Madonna also appears to be throwing her Beverly Hills house on the market -- for $22.5 million. Madonna has owned the luxurious mansion for almost a decade (Madge allegedly purchased the home when she... Continue Reading »

Oh, LiLo. We wait patiently for the day when this talented but troubled actress turns a new leaf, but alas, it seems we wait in vain. This time it appears that Lindsay Lohan is being forced out of a stunning Beverly Glen, Calif., home because she allegedly can't keep up with the $8,000-a-month rent. (Steep to us, but a... Continue Reading »

Rosie O'Donnell is one of a kind. She's not only inimitably hilarious, but she's the only celebrity we know who's quirky enough to have bought and renovated the former headquarters of the Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church (a purported marijuana cartel that claimed to be its own religion in the 1970s). Not that you can tell.... Continue Reading »

We've all heard the viral pop song "Gangnam Style," a song written about the flashy, ostentatious lifestyle of Gangnam, a wealthy neighborhood in Seoul, South Korea. It's maybe no surprise then that its singer, Psy, is living "Gangnam Style" himself -- having just snapped up a superbly swanky condo in Los Angeles. The... Continue Reading »