Ellen DeGeneres Is Selling Her Favorite Home for $45M — A Romantic 1930s Villa
Flipping homes is more than just a hobby for Ellen DeGeneres.
Now on her 15th property listening in the last 25 years, the ED shoe designer put on the market today a 1930s Italian villa in Montecito, Calif., for a whopping $45 million, Toptenrealestatedeals.com announced.
The 10,500-square-foot estate was purchased in 2013 with her wife, Portia de Rossi, but among the haul of homes she has unloaded in the past, these romantic digs will be missed most of all.
In 2015, it was prominently featured in her interior design book “Home” — where she shared advice on design and real estate.
Design and real estate were two passions that developed early for the comedienne. “I think I wanted to be an interior designer when I was 13,” she wrote in “Home.”
The rustic-meets-luxe property was a spectacular example of her style and business savvy and coincided when she launched her ED lifestyle brand of home products, apparel and accessories, and the next year announced a partnership on footwear the next year with Camuto Group.
Her hand in the décor isn’t hard to miss. The property is staged with items that nod her favorite things, including sculptures of dogs, horses and art pieces.
The villas boast six bedrooms, eight baths, nine fireplaces, libraries, a marble-wrapped chef’s kitchen and formal rooms.
An indoor-outdoor entertaining pavilion built from stone excavated on-site with hand-made iron windows. Some sleek upgrades to the historic home include a lap pool, sunken championship tennis court and state-of-the-art irrigation, mechanical, electronic and security systems.
DeGeneres expanded the original home by acquiring two adjacent properties, yielding 16.88 acres.
Speaking to Architectural Digest previously, the TV host cited said her father piqued her interests in real estate from when she was a youngster. “We never had a house when I was growing up,” she said. “We always rented. But my father would dream, and we used to look at houses all the time.”
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