21 Times Celebrities Sold Homes to Each Other

In early 2020, DeGeneres and her wife Portia de Rossi purchased a unique Tudor-style home in Montecito, California, only to flip it back onto the market shortly afterward. Pop star Ariana Grande then saw the opportunity to expand her real estate portfolio, paying the power couple $6.75 million for the 5,500-square-foot property in June of that year. Known as the Porter House, Grande’s new home consists of two separate barns that were originally built in Surrey, England, and then had to be dismantled and reconstructed in California. Inside, lofted wood-beam ceilings and exposed brick fireplaces maintain the former barns’ rustic aesthetic. In the spring of 2021, Grande held her wedding to realtor Dalton Gomez at the home.

Moby to Leonardo DiCaprio

In April 2018 a stately English-traditional-style dwelling in Los Feliz passed from one socially conscious celebrity to another when musician and animal rights activist Moby sold his home to Oscar-winning actor and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio for $4.91 million. In the time that Moby owned the place, he substantially renovated the kitchen and other parts of the 4,644-square-foot house, but reports at the time of the sale noted that the Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood star was unlikely to enjoy the upgrades himself because he bought the place for a family member. In August of this year, DiCaprio put the pad back on the market.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson to DiCaprio

Clearly DiCaprio has a sharp eye for all things design, so it is no surprise that Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Justin Mikita’s stylish Los Feliz home caught his attention. The Revenant star snapped up the 1928 Spanish Colonial-style property for $7.1 million in May 2021. This was a substantial leap from the $4.6 million the couple paid for it back in 2013. (Though, to be fair, Ferguson and Mikita had put in a significant share of time and effort into reimagining the space with the help of Will & Grace set designer Peter Gurski.) Prior to Ferguson and Mikita, several other famous names called the four-bedroom pad home, among them Gwen Stefani and Robert Pattinson.

Jeff Bridges to Oprah Winfrey

What are neighbors for? When Oprah Winfrey decided she wanted to expand her holdings in Montecito in late 2019, she looked no further than Jeff Bridges’s nearby Spanish Revival-style compound, which was up for sale. The Bad Times at the El Royale actor and his wife Susan Geston first listed the ranch earlier that year for $8 million, but the media mogul ultimately paid slightly less, with a final closing price of $6.85 million. The complex spans four acres, and it will likely be absorbed into Oprah’s so-called Promised Land ranch, which already measures a whopping 70 contiguous acres.

John Travolta to Scooter Braun

Speaking of degrees of separation, John Travolta is two jumps away from a large chunk of Hollywood after selling his 9,100-square-foot Spanish-style mansion to talent manager Scooter Braun for $18 million in January 2020. The Pulp Fiction actor and his late wife Kelly Preston had owned the home since 1997 before passing it on to Braun, who represents a number of popular artists including Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Demi Lovato, David Guetta, J Balvin, Hilary Duff, and many more. When Travolta and Preston purchased the place, it had six bedrooms and nine and a half bathrooms. By the time Braun scooped it up, they had upgraded the house to have 10 bedrooms, 10 bathrooms, a guardhouse, and two garages.

DJ Steve Angello to Calvin Harris to Charli XCX

Calvin Harris ensured the musical lineage of his sleek Hollywood Hills home in the fall of 2020 when he sold it to “Boom Clap” singer Charli XCX for $5.1 million, just about three years after he purchased it from fellow DJ Steve Angello for around $7 million. The four-bedroom, six-bathroom home is perfect for entertaining, with an 18-foot-high wood-beam ceiling in the main living room, which also boasts floor-to-ceiling walls of glass overlooking the city lights below. A bar/lounge area with banquette seating similarly features an entire wall of windows overlooking a wraparound deck, and an attached guesthouse offers the perfect respite with one of the two bedrooms converted into a recording studio.

Liam Payne to Halsey

In early 2021, Halsey set about getting things ready for the July birth of their first child, Ender Ridley Aydin, with the purchase of a sprawling five-acre compound in Calabasas. The singer paid former One Direction member just over $10.16 million for the stunning estate, which comprises a 9,700-square-foot main house, a recording studio, a teahouse, a guest house, and a small working vineyard. Koi ponds and waterfalls dot the property. The main house itself boasts numerous luxuries, including a two-story library, a wine cellar, and a home theater. Payne previously claimed that the home was “haunted,” but added that “If you don’t believe in it, I don’t think it can get to you.”

Amar’e Stoudemire to Rick Ross

Rick Ross broke records with the purchase of former NBA All-Star Amar’e Stoudemire’s Miami home. The rapper paid $3.5 million—all cash—for the South Florida mansion in early 2021 and closed on the massive deal in just four days, the quickest any property has closed in the history of the gated community where it is located. Ross’s new place features a 7,361-square-foot main house, a 1,314-square-foot guest house, and a nine-car garage. The athlete had owned the home for about a decade, having paid $3.7 million for it in 2011.

The Weeknd to Madonna

The Weeknd’s Hidden Hills home found a new, musical owner in April of 2021. The singer sold his 13,391-square-foot mansion, which he bought brand new in 2017, to none other than the Queen of Pop herself. Madonna reportedly paid $19.3 million for the modern farmhouse, which features seven bedrooms and nine bathrooms, as well as a wine room, a home theater, a bar area, a wine room, and a five-car garage. A separate guest house comprises two bedrooms and two bathrooms, while an infinity pool, a full basketball court, and an outdoor living room and fire-pit round out the property’s many offerings. The only downside to the sale was that The Weeknd sold it at a slight loss; he paid just under $20 million for the place back in 2017.

YouTube star Safiya Nygaard to Uzo Aduba

YouTube star Safiya Nygaard’s former Studio City, Los Angeles, home is a perfect blend of East Coast charm and West Coast chill with its blue exterior and crisp white trim set against a stark contrast of palm tree-lined steps leading up to the front door. Nygaard, perhaps best known for her YouTube video “Why I Left BuzzFeed,” sold the six-bedroom, five-and-a-half-bathroom pad to Emmy winner Uzo Aduba in May 2021 for a cool $3.1 million. Standout features include a home movie theater, a wine cellar, and a two-car garage that occupies the entirety of the lowest of three floors.

Nicole Richie to Adele

Ahead of the release of her long-anticipated new single, “Easy On Me,” Adele purchased a $10 million Beverly Hills house from none other than her next-door neighbor, Nicole Richie. The four-bedroom, four-bathroom home features a subdued, gray exterior with a custom-built chicken coop and edible garden out back. (Richie told Architectural Digest in 2017 that she purposely had the coop built in the image of her own house because she “wanted one color palette throughout.”) Adele and Richie had been neighbors since 2016 when the singer bought her first Beverly Hills mansion for $9.5 million. Richie and her husband Joel Madden originally purchased their former home for $6.7 million in 2015.

DJ Alesso to Lena Waithe

In September 2021, Lena Waithe decided to upgrade her living situation with the purchase of a $6.4 million modern mansion that previously belonged to another arbiter of cool: Swedish DJ and record producer Alesso. The home, situated in Studio City, measures 6,587 square feet and features six bedrooms and eight bathrooms, along with all the trappings of a contemporary Hollywood palace: A main suite that converts into a private screening room, a pool with its own outdoor lounge area, and an infrared sauna.

via Architectural Digest