Nalin here,
Last week, hip hop super-producer Kanye West listed his Beverly Hills home for sale. The house itself isn’t huge or ostentatious, which is surprising given Kanye’s notorious personality. The artwork and design of the house is pretty interesting though and worth checking out. The house is a 3 bedroom, 3.5 bath at 7882 Fareholm Drive in Beverly Hills. The house is listed at $3,995,000 for 4200 sq. ft. in Beverly Hills with full surveillance system and automation. Have a look.
Supermodel Gisele Bunchen and her husband Tom Brady, player for the New England Patriots, are building a mega-mansion in the exclusive Brentwood section of Los Angeles, CA (right next to Arnold Schwarzenegger’s house). The couple bought the 3.75 acre property for a reported $11 million. It is going to cost an estimated $20 million more to construct the home. Not like that will hurt their pockets. Gisele alone is worth an estimated $150 million and is the highest paid supermodel in the world! The 22,000 square foot house boasts 8 bedrooms, a covered bridge, six-car garage, and a lagoon-shaped swimming pool. It is being built by Boston-based Suffolk Construction, whose CEO John Fish is a good friend of Brady’s. While celebrities building mega-mansions is not something new, Gisele is taking some heat over it because of the home’s environmental friendliness. If you don’t know already, Gisele was recently designated the Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). How ironic, right?! Do you think it’s a good idea for them to be building such a huge house?
You remember him? Jayson Williams, a former NBA player who used to play for the Nets, pled guilty to assault in the shooting death of a limousine driver at his then mansion. The home, which is located at 143 Woolf Rod in Milford, NJ, was sold by Williams in November of 2005 for $8 million. The home then went under an extensive renovation in 2006 by it’s current owner and has hit the market for $12,500,000 for 296 acres, $10,500,000 for 173 acres, or $7,900,000 for 57 acres. The home, which used to be called the “Who Knew?” estate, is now dubbed “Hidden Meadow Estate”. It boasts 15,000 square feet of living space with 6 bedrooms suites, 8 full baths & 4 half baths, gourmet kitchn, 7 fireplaces, wood paneled library, family room with fireplace, bar & adjoining billiards room, card room, home theater, wine cellar, a swimming pool, bocce ball court, barn with 10 horse stalls, and a possible indoor riding arena or an enormous garage.
The home was built in 1997 by Jayson and his father and consisted of 27,000 square feet. I’m pretty sure the new owner knocked out the indoor basketball court and that is why it’s only 15,000 square feet now. So, what are your thoughts??
Superstar songstress Celine Dion has finished construction on her very own backyard “water park”. If you don’t know already, Celine’s management company, Renlec Management, paid $12.5 million back in June of 2005 for the property in the 200 block of South Beach Road on Jupiter Island in Florida. It already boasted a 2-story home that was demolished to make way for Celine’s new 3.7 acre compound. The main residence boasts 9,825 square feet of living space and has six bedrooms, eight full bathrooms, an elevator and a basement for laundry and staff living quarters. On the first floor, the octagon includes a living room facing the ocean and separates north and south wings containing bedrooms and a sound-proof TV room. On the second floor, an elevator and staircase lead into a playroom and children’s rooms on the west side and an octagonal-shaped adjacent master suite on the east side. The master suite includes an outdoor spa, wide balconies and three fireplaces, and a 460-square-foot master closet.
The entrance for the estate is on an adjacent 2-acre lot to the north that Renlec purchased in January of 2008 for $7 million. The property also features an 8 bedroom, 2,621-square-foot guesthouse, tennis court, and an underground garage. However the most impressive feature definitely has to be the mini “water park” in the front yard. It boasts two swimming pool (one for guests), a lazy river, a pavilion, and a tower that holds an enclosed water slide. All in all, Celine’s compound, which took nearly 5 years to complete, boasts a total of 17,868 square feet, 15 bedrooms, and 14 full and 6 half baths.
*It was reported in 2008 that Celine’s estate guzzles about 6.5 million gallons of water each year and it costs her nearly $10,000 a month for her water bill!! I’m pretty sure that number is going to sky rocket considering she just built a mini “water park” the size of 2 Olympic sized swimming pools!! (thanks to Marie for the tip!)
Al here,
This mansion has already been posted, but since it was just shown off on MTV Cribs on Sunday, April 4th, I might as well, “re-introduce” it to those who haven’t seen it yet. The mansion belongs to NBA Superstar Carmelo Anthony. He bought the home a few years back for $12 million from Qwest’s owner Stephen Jacobsen, who before that had built this estate, but decided not to live there. Carmelo bought his home, and Stephen in exchange got his. The mansion is called “The Sognare Estate”. The address is 6965 S Polo Ridge Dr, Littleton, CO. The home is 25,000 square feet. It contains 6 bedrooms and 9 bathrooms.
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