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    Stevie Wonder Once Called This SoCal Estate Home. Now It Can Be Yours for $15 Million.

    If you’ve always wanted to live like a legendary singer and songwriter with countless hits and awards under his belt, now’s your chance. The sprawling SoCal estate where Stevie Wonder resided with his family for over a decade has just popped up for sale in the Los Angeles suburb of Calabasas, asking $15 million. The listing, which is also available for rent at $65,000 a month, is shared by Branden Williams, Rayni Williams, Dennis DeWalt, and Brandon Meneses of The Beverly Hills Estates.

    Wonder purchased the home in October 2000 for nearly $2.9 million for his then-soon-to-be wife, clothing designer Kai Millard (Milla) Morris. Though the I Just Called to Say I Love You crooner moved out after their 2012 divorce, she has remained in the residence ever since and is now selling because their two sons are grown, according to The Wall Street Journal.

    A music room holds Wonder’s rare Bösendorfer piano, which is not included in the sale.

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    Built in 1992 and recently renovated, the white stucco and terracotta-roof structure is tucked away on a nearly three-acre hillside parcel within the exclusive gated Hidden Hills West neighborhood. Six bedrooms and an equal number of baths are spread across more than 11,100 square feet of three-level living space that boasts the same acoustically ideal, high ceilings the 25-time Grammy-winning musician enjoyed while practicing and singing tunes with his family.

    Upon entering the massive pivoting wood front door, a double-height marble entry foyer displaying a spiral staircase flows to a formal fireside dining room topped by a pendant ring-shaped light fixture. Other highlights include a family room sporting a trio of picture windows, a wet bar, and wine storage, plus a gourmet kitchen decked out with chevron-patterned parquet wood floors, custom cabinetry, a book-matched marble eat-in island, and top-notch Miele and Sub-Zero appliances.

    A freeform pool and spillover spa are bordered by a sundeck surrounded by landscaped gardens.

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    Holding court upstairs is an office with a marble fireplace and gold-leaf chandelier, along with a junior primary suite that has its own living room. A spacious primary suite comes with dual seating areas divided by a two-way fireplace, a private balcony, a bespoke walk-in closet, and a luxe bath spotlighted by a steam room and an infrared sauna.

    Elsewhere is a lower level holding an en suite guest bedroom and a butler’s kitchen. A living room connects to a dedicated piano room, which has glass doors spilling out to picturesque grounds hosting a grassy lawn and a freeform pool with a spillover spa. Out front, an attached four-car garage and a cobblestone motor court are accessible via a gated driveway.

    The 74-year-old Michigan-born musician, who married Tomeeka Robyn Bracy in 2017, maintains a substantial real estate portfolio. There’s a handful of homes and commercial properties across L.A., including a house in the Hollywood Hills, as well as a big house in Alpine, N.J., and his childhood home in Detroit.

    Click here for more photos of the Calabasas residence.

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    Wendy Bowman

    Wendy Bowman is a real estate writer at Robb Report. Before that, she was a freelancer for Modern Luxury and several other media outlets, where she primarily covered luxury properties for…

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    Christina Ricci’s Scenic L.A. Home Is Back on the Market for $4.2 Million

    It’s been barely a year since Christina Ricci doled out $4 million for a modern home in Los Angeles, and now the veteran film and TV actress is already looking to offload her stylish spread high above the hills of Silver Lake with a nearly $200,000 jump in price, asking just under $4.2 million. But the brand-new Hollywood Walk of Fame star holder has a good reason. A family member who was displaced during the recent L.A. wildfires has moved in with the Yellowjackets star and her hairstylist husband Mark Hampton and she needs a bigger place to better accommodate all of them, according to listing agent Lorraine Getz of Compass.

    Completed in 2018 and resting amid a nearly quarter-acre cul-de-sac parcel overlooking the Silver Lake Reservoir, the three-bedroom, four-bath abode has roughly 3,400 square feet of open-concept, two-level living space accented with a mix of hardwood and ceramic tile floors throughout, plus a smart-home automation system. A spacious rooftop deck and vast expanses of glass offer jetliner views stretching from Downtown L.A. to the reservoir and mountains beyond.

    The fireside living room opens to a terrace offering sweeping city skyline views.

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    A catwalk leads into the main level, which is highlighted by an open-concept great room sporting a living area that has a sleek linear fireplace topped by a TV and access to a terrace. A formal dining room flanked by a stone accent wall flows to an eat-in kitchen, which has a center island with an attached table and top-tier Miele and Sub-Zero appliances. A floating staircase winds its way upstairs, where three en suite bedrooms include a serene primary suite outfitted with a fireside seating area, a private balcony, a bespoke walk-in closet, and a spa-like bath boasting a soaking tub.

    Outdoors, the turf-clad backyard is laced with a variety of citrus trees and hosts a pool and spillover spa notched into a wood sundeck. There’s also a two-car garage, along with a nearby “hidden” staircase that connects you to Lamill Coffee, L&E Oyster Bar, Bar Siesta, and other local hot spots.

    A pool and an accompanying spillover spa are notched into an expansive wood-clad deck.

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    The 45-year-old Santa Monica native made her film debut at age 9 in Mermaids alongside Cher and Wynona Ryder, with her breakout role coming as Wednesday in The Addams Family. She’s also appeared in Casper, Sleepy Hollow, Monster, The Beginning of Everything, and Yellowjackets. Ricci previously owned a Jeff Lewis-renovated home in L.A.’s Woodland Hills suburb that she sold this past August for $2.25 million.

    Click here for more photos of the Silver Lake residence.

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    Wendy Bowman

    Wendy Bowman is a real estate writer at Robb Report. Before that, she was a freelancer for Modern Luxury and several other media outlets, where she primarily covered luxury properties for…

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    Artist Ashley Longshore’s Pop Art-Inspired New Orleans Home Just Listed for $2.3 Million

    New Orleans is known for its vibrant culture, bold colors, and artistic flair—so it’s only fitting that Big Easy artist Ashley Longshore’s home embodies that same electric energy. Now, the acclaimed painter and designer’s dazzling residence is up for grabs, offering one lucky buyer the chance to own a one-of-a-kind creative sanctuary. 

    On the market for $2.3 million, the 1920s abode is nestled behind private gates, providing an adventurous oasis of color, texture, and whimsy. This place isn’t just for show, though. According to Architectural Digest, Longshore teamed up with Memphis-based designer Gwen Driscoll to make sure the more than 5,000-square-foot house didn’t just look cool but felt inviting and fun. On the practical side, it’s got four total bedrooms, four-and-a-half baths, tons of storage, and gated parking for four cars, including a two-car garage. 

    RELATED: John Goodman’s Longtime Digs in The Big Easy Can Be Yours for $5.5 Million

    The kitchen features seafom green cabinets and marble checkerboard tile flooring.

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    “When I was finally in a place to get the house, what I loved about it was how it was gated and set back, and just the privacy of the home in general,” Longshore told the publication back in 2022. “And from the outside, it was very traditional, but then on the inside, I wanted it to feel like a jewel box of my art collection.” 

    The chef’s kitchen, with a long, slender white-cube island running down the middle, and adjacent dining room are decked out with hand-picked chandeliers and sconces that perfectly complement the funky floral wallpaper. A spacious walk-in wine cellar offers ample storage for storing favorite vintages, while sculptural elements—like a succulent art installation—add even more personality to the space. There’s even a “pink room of pop,” because, why not?

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    There’s an office space with vibrant hot-pink walls and a high-gloss orange ceiling.

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    Elsewhere, the massive living room lies below soaring 20-foot ceilings, while huge walls of glass give a perfect view of the lush outdoor entertaining area and oversized pool. Take the hand-painted staircase—embellished by Longshore herself—up to the second floor, where the primary suite features a one-of-a-kind mural by the artist. The third-floor loft is yet another canvas for Longshore’s creativity, with every inch hand-painted in her signature style.  

    A contemporary pop artist best known for her vivacious, colorful, and satirical paintings that celebrate celebrity culture, Longshore is sometimes compared to the late Andy Warhol, building a cult following with her vibrant, mixed-media works featuring icons like Audrey Hepburn and Anna Wintour. Throughout her career, she has collaborated with major fashion houses, including Gucci and Bergdorf Goodman, and her work is in collections by A-listers like Salma Hayek and Eli Manning.  

    Click here to see more photos of the artist’s New Orleans residence. 

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    Abby Montanez

    Abigail Montanez is a staff writer at Robb Report. She has worked in both print and digital publishing for over half a decade, covering everything from real estate, entertainment, dining, travel to…

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    Amy Schumer Lists Her 200-Year-Old Brooklyn Townhouse for $14 Million

    In early 2022 Amy Schumer hoisted her Manhattan penthouse on the market and picked up a renovated and restored 19th-century townhouse in Brooklyn. Fast forward almost three years, and the comedian and actress has decided to pull up stakes again and return to the Upper West Side, hoisting her Federal-style residence in historic Brooklyn Heights up for sale at $14 million. Adam Modlin of Modlin Group and Karen and Kyle Talbott of Corcoran Group hold the listing.

    Records show The Kinda Pregnant and I Feel Pretty star and her chef husband Chris Fischer acquired the early 1800s property in summer 2022 for nearly $12.3 million and then customized it to suit their personal tastes. 

    Notably featured as the Castorini family’s home in the 1987 Oscar-winning film Moonstruck starring Cher and Nicolas Cage, the brick and mansard-roof structure clocks in at 26 feet wide and has four (and potentially five) bedrooms and four baths spread across a little more than 5,500 square feet on a total of five levels donning a whopping total of 30 windows for an abundance of natural light.

    The fireside double parlor is divided by pilaster-framed pocketing doors.

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    Standing out on the first floor is a kitchen outfitted with an exposed beam ceiling, wide-plank floors, vintage wood cabinetry, a marble-topped island, top-tier Gaggenau and Lacanche appliances, a butler’s pantry with a zinc bar sink, and a breakfast nook. An adjacent wood-paneled bedroom-turned-library connects to a mudroom, which opens to a Michael Van Valkenburgh-landscaped backyard that currently holds a turf-clad play area but could easily be repurposed as a private gated parking space.

    The main entrance on the second level leads to a duo of fireside parlors divided by large pocketing doors, plus a powder room and access to an iron-railed terrace with steps descending to the backyard. A grand primary suite occupying the entire third floor has a corner bedroom warmed by an original fireplace, as well as dressing and sitting rooms, an office, and a marble bath flaunting another fireplace, dual vanities, a vintage clawfoot soaking tub, and a floating glass-encased shower.

    The couple converted a former brick patio in the backyard into a turf-clad play area.

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    Three more bedrooms that share a penny-tiled bath can be found on the top floor, along with a Miele washer and dryer. Rounding it all out in style is the basement, which hosts a custom wine cellar, an excavated gym, and full laundry facilities.

    Per The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the listing, the New York native has decided to sell because she and her husband want to be closer to their 5-year-old son’s school in Manhattan. “He got into a good school,” she said, “and we’re too lazy to commute 45 minutes to take our son to school every day.”

    Click here for more photos of the Brooklyn residence.

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    Wendy Bowman

    Wendy Bowman is a real estate writer at Robb Report. Before that, she was a freelancer for Modern Luxury and several other media outlets, where she primarily covered luxury properties for…

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    A Billionaire Is Taking Over a West Palm Beach Street for His Private Estate—and Neighbors Aren’t Happy

    Paul Tudor Jones is building a sprawling waterfront estate in Florida‘s West Palm Beach, and he plans to incorporate a chunk of public street into his private domain.

    The billionaire hedge funder just won approval from the West Palm Beach City Commission to acquire a portion of Essex Court, a slender, dead-end lane in Southend—also known as the Soso neighborhood—for $220,000, Realtor.com reported. And why does he want this bit of blacktop? So he can create a private, gated compound connecting two luxury homes he’s currently building along the Intracoastal Waterway. 

    The legendary investor, worth more than $8 billion, already owns three contiguous properties he will combine into a single compound. Tax records show he picked up two side-by-side waterfront parcels for nearly $10 million in 2021—one of the lots had a modest house on it, and together they span almost 2.3 acres, and last year he shelled out another $6.4 million for a neighboring property with an existing home sitting on a .43-acre plot. With this latest land grab, Jones now controls roughly 2.7 acres—plenty of space to craft a secluded estate. 

    The section of Essex Court he’s acquiring is only about 65 feet long and does not provide access to any driveways of neighboring homes, according to the Palm Beach Daily News. His team, led by planner Brian Cheguis of iPlan & Design, made sure the plan passed muster with the city’s Plats and Review Committee, and they even got the fire department’s green light. 

    “We left 30 feet from the swale back,” Cheguis explained to the publication, adding that the gates will be set back far enough to allow some road access. “It’s really not that big of a deal.”  

    Billionaire Paul Tudor Jones is buying public street land in West Palm Beach to build his own estate.

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    However, not everyone is thrilled. Some neighbors are upset about losing part of the public street, fearing it will shrink available parking and make it more difficult for service trucks and emergency vehicles to access and turn around. “This guy has more money than we do, and as a billionaire, he’s probably used to getting everything he wants,” one frustrated resident told the magazine.

    Jones owns several impressive properties across the country, including a $30 million mansion in Cambridge, Maryland, and a waterfront estate in Belle Haven, Connecticut. He isn’t the first finance titan to assemble a mega-compound in South Florida, either. Citadel’s Ken Griffin famously spent years piecing together 25 acres of prime ocean-to-lake land, while Kenneth G. Tropin and William P. Lauder have also combined properties to create sprawling estates. 

    Until recently, this trend was more common in Palm Beach. But as West Palm Beach gains traction as “Wall Street South,” more and more deep-pocketed buyers are looking to put down real estate roots across the Intracoastal. And, with the new wave of ultra-wealthy moving in, the metro area’s $515,000 median home price is likely to increase considerably over the next decade. 

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    Abby Montanez

    Abigail Montanez is a staff writer at Robb Report. She has worked in both print and digital publishing for over half a decade, covering everything from real estate, entertainment, dining, travel to…

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    Kate Mara and Jamie Bell’s Genteel Southern Colonial Home in L.A. Is Up for Grabs at $5 Million

    It’s been barely three years since Kate Mara and Jamie Bell doled out $4.8 million for a Los Angeles home in the leafy foothills of Los Feliz, and the Hollywood couple has already decided to hand over the keys to their stately Southern Colonial-style digs, asking a speck under $5 million. Patricia Ruben of Sotheby’s International Realty holds the listing.

    The married actors—who have both appeared in a string of hit TV shows and films such as Fantastic Four, Billy Elliot, House of Cards, and American Horror Story: Murder House, just to name a few—acquired the property in 2022 in a clandestine off-market deal. The sellers were legendary New Zealand singer-songwriter Neil Finn of Split Enz and Crowded House fame and his longtime wife Sharon, who had only picked up the place two years earlier, in 2020, for $4.3 million. Before that, it was owned at different times by actress Katherine Heigl and Emmy-winning Simpsons writer Tim Long.

    French doors in the comfy, denim blue family room open onto a wraparound deck.

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    Originally built in the early 1920s, the elegant white shingle-sided structure has undergone numerous updates through the years, including some recent cosmetic tweaks by Mara and Bell. Featured are four bedrooms and an equal number of baths spread across almost 3,700 square feet of two-level living space, which boasts lots of original architectural details, high ceilings, rustic hardwood floors, large windows, and French doors throughout.

    Especially standing out on the main level is a light-filled living room sporting a wood-burning fireplace, as well as a family room displaying a TV cabinet embedded in a wall of bookshelves and access to a wraparound deck. Other highlights include a dining room and butler’s pantry that connect to a gourmet kitchen outfitted with an eat-in island, Thermador appliances, and an adjoining breakfast nook.

    A renovated guesthouse with a striking wood-beam ceiling overlooks the pool area.

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    A traditional staircase leads from the foyer to the upper level, where a sizable primary suite features a marble-clad fireplace and a walk-in closet, plus a spa-like bath adorned with dual vanities, a spa tub, and a separate shower. There’s also a covered second-floor balcony overlooking the hedge-lined backyard, which hosts a pool and spa, along with a fireside seating area.

    A detached guesthouse with dark green interiors, a vaulted wood-beam ceiling, and a full bath can also be found on the premises, which are fully walled and gated and sequestered away on nearly a quarter of an acre of land.

    Click here for more photos of the Los Feliz residence.

    Jo David for Sotheby’s International Realty

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    Wendy Bowman

    Wendy Bowman is a real estate writer at Robb Report. Before that, she was a freelancer for Modern Luxury and several other media outlets, where she primarily covered luxury properties for…

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    L.A. Reid Relists His Swanky Bel Air Mansion for a Discounted $17.5 Million

    Antonio “L.A.” Reid first hoisted his ultra-contemporary Bel Air mansion on the market back in 2019 for nearly $23 million. Six years and several price chops later, the Grammy-winning record producer behind top-tier talents like Usher, Rihanna, and Justin Bieber still hasn’t enticed any takers and has decided to try his hand at offloading the place once again, this time with a slimmed-down $17.5 million ask. Selling Sunset stars Jason and Brett Oppenheim of The Oppenheim Group hold the listing.

    Records show the music industry veteran acquired the hillside residence in 2016 for $18 million shortly after it was built and then embarked upon a bespoke tailoring of the premises to suit his personal tastes. Completed in 2015, the gated estate rests on just over an acre of land atop a promontory above Stone Canyon Reservoir and comes complete with floor-to-ceiling walls of glass providing sweeping city lights views.

    The great room has a double-sided fireplace and automated retractable glass walls spilling out to the backyard.

    Noel Kleinman/The Oppenheim Group

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    Standing three stories tall, the stucco and stone-accented structure boasts a total of seven bedrooms and 10 baths spread across roughly 11,100 square feet of open-concept living space. Glitzy amenities include an elevator, numerous fireplaces, a gym, a private studio, a glassy 300-bottle wine cellar, and a crimson-hued movie theater with an accompanying wet bar.

    A gated driveway lined with towering Ficus trees fronts the home, which has an eye-catching door that opens into a double-height foyer topped with a striking wind chime-like chandelier. Grand-scale rooms throughout are punctuated by a mix of stone and white oak floors, soaring ceilings, black granite walls, and chrome accents.

    Particularly standing out on the main level is a spacious great room divided by a massive two-way fireplace. There’s also a fireside office/library with built-in bookshelves and cabinetry, along with a formal dining room and sleekly designed kitchen outfitted with custom cabinetry, dual islands, and top-tier appliances.

    Amenities include a crimson movie theater with an accompanying bar.

    Noel Kleinman/The Oppenheim Group

    A sculptural staircase heads upstairs to the primary suite, which is decked out with yet another fireplace, a balcony, and a spa-inspired bath equipped with a soaking tub, a glass-encased shower, and a sauna. Four additional en suite bedrooms can also be found on the top floor, while two more bedrooms hold court on the lower level.

    As for the grounds, they host an infinity pool flanked by a sundeck and a grassy lawn that flows to a separate raised spa and a fire pit, as well as an entertainment area sporting a kitchen and bar. Rounding it all out: a subterranean garage that can accommodate up to four vehicles.

    Click here for more photos of the Bel Air residence.

    Noel Kleinman/The Oppenheim Group

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    Wendy Bowman

    Wendy Bowman is a real estate writer at Robb Report. Before that, she was a freelancer for Modern Luxury and several other media outlets, where she primarily covered luxury properties for…

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