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    Inside Sylvester Stallone’s Newly Renovated Palm Beach Estate

    When it comes to packing up and moving to one of Florida’s finer ZIP codes, Sylvester Stallone was ahead of the current trend, scooping up an estate facing the Intracoastal Waterway near the northern tip of Palm Beach almost five years ago.

    After settling in and getting to know the ins and outs of the place, Stone and his wife, Jennifer Flavin, who plunked down nearly $35.5 million for the slightly more than one-acre spread, have recently completed a 10-month overhaul with RWB Construction Management handling the building and South Florida’s Marc-Michaels Interior Design teaming up with English designer Martyn Lawrence Bullard on the interiors. 

    While dazzling bits of Hollywood glamour are peppered throughout, at its core, this is a family home that lends itself to a relaxed lifestyle jampacked with friends and pets. Furnishings are intentionally sturdy and swaddled in luxe but hardy fabrics to withstand spills and sandy paws. Also prioritized was creating an appropriate backdrop for the couple’s always-in-rotation collection of contemporary art. Here, there are Damian Hirsts and Andy Warhols hanging on the walls, while dog toys are scattered on the floor and bare feet are propped up on coffee tables.

    Furnishings throughout the 13,000-square-foot home are plush, comfortable, and pet-friendly.

    RWB Concierge Builder

    Customizations include a gleaming walk-in wet bar with several climate-controlled glass cases for storing and displaying wine and, for the famous cigar aficionado, a glass-fronted humidor. Elsewhere, a state-of-the-art home cinema is decked out with acoustics and technology that rival a studio screening room, and in the club room, a trio of Oscars won by the original 1976 film Rocky, which made Stallone an international icon, stands with other industry accolades on a flannel-grey carved stone fireplace set against a wall upholstered in rivet-lined caramel leather.

    Stone and Flavin’s three daughters are all in their 20s now (Stallone has two older sons, one who died in 2012 of heart disease), and the sprawling home allows the entire Stallone clan (and more) to comfortably gather en masse for both special occasions and not-so-special occasions.

    The Flemish Revival compound spans several buildings capped by distinctive crow-stepped gables. Surrounding the keyhole-shaped pool are the two-story main house that opens to ocean-facing verandas, an open-air pavilion with a fireplace, and a freestanding guest suite. A separate guesthouse is positioned in a lush garden of its own with direct beach access. In all, seven bedrooms and 10 baths, plus a couple of powder rooms, are sprinkled across the property.

    The brass-accented bar features a climate-controlled humidor.

    RWB Concierge Builder

    Plush lawns and thickets of towering palms unite the various structures, while a demilune hot tub faces the water alongside a stone terrace that steps down to the estate’s private 250-plus-foot crescent beach. Off to the side is a private dock for getting out on the water.

    Stallone and Flavin have made several significant real estate moves over the last few years. They sold their longtime Beverly Hills estate in 2022 for $58 million to Adele, who proceeded to practically tear the whole thing down before rebuilding it more to her liking, and the following year they took a $1 mllion loss when musician John Fogerty paid $17 million for a contemporary farmhouse-style mansion they briefly owned in the star-studded Hidden Hills community in L.A.’s northwestern suburbs. And then, last year, the Tulsa King star ponied up $25 million in cash for an elegantly appointed turnkey residence in the Hamptons.

    Click here for more photos of the revamped Palm Beach estate.

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    Mark David

    Mark David got his start writing about real estate with the saucy cult-favorite blog The Real Estalker, on which he obsessively tracked the secretive world of celebrity property transactions. A much…

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    B-52s Singer Kate Pierson Lists Her Creative Woodstock Retreat

    Got some legal tender burning a hole in your proverbial pocket? Well, you might just want to roam on over to this little old place where everyone can get together and enjoy some mint juleps with a decadent pairing of quiche Lorraine and rock lobster!

    Almost three decades after the B-52s singer and founding member Kate Pierson doled out a mere $125,000 for the rustic cabin in Upstate New York‘s Lake Hill community near Woodstock, she and her longtime artist wife Monica Coleman have now decided to part ways with the two-acre spread nestled in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains. The asking price is a relatively affordable $750,000, with Diana Polack and Jason Nadeau at the Upstate Curious Team of Compass holding the listing.

    The living room is anchored by a stone fireplace that stretches to the wood-beam ceiling.

    Phil Mansfield

    RELATED: This Bucolic Country Estate Just Outside of N.Y.C. Has Historic Ties to Hollywood

    Originally built in the early 1950s and updated during the couple’s tenure, the clapboard-sided and shingle-roof structure is known as Kate’s Lazy Cabin. Inside, three bedrooms and two baths are packed into roughly 1,300 square feet of eclectically stylish living space, all of it tinged with vintage and artistic touches from cozy nooks to kitschy knickknacks.

    A gated entrance leads to a front porch, which has a red-hued door opening into a spacious knotty pine-paneled living room sporting a floor-to-ceiling stone fireplace, a row of large multi-paned windows, and a dining area tucked off to the side. A Native American-style painted door leads to the vaulted galley kitchen, which is spotlighted by a center island topped with an orange pendant light and a creamy ceramic backsplash. Sliding doors in the breakfast nook lead out to a deck with built-in seating.

    A built-in seating area on a deck next to the wooded grounds is an ideal spot for morning coffee.

    Phil Mansfield

    RELATED: The Co-Founder of Woodstock Just Listed His Longtime Hudson Valley Home for $2.4 Million

    The bedrooms share a couple of newly renovated baths, while the forested grounds are fully fenced and set along Mink Hollow Road, which meanders along Beaver Kill, a trout fishing stream, and is just minutes away from Ulster County’s natural Cooper Lake. All in all, it’s the perfect place to follow your bliss.

    This appears to be the last piece in an assemblage of bicoastal properties the 77-year-old Love Shack crooner has owned for decades under the Lazy Lodging moniker. Pierson previously operated a 1950s boutique motel complex on 6.5 acres in the Woodstock area—it was called Kate’s Lazy Meadow—that traded hands in summer 2021 for $2.25 million. Last year, she also sold Kate’s Lazy Desert, a glamping destination with Airstream trailers in California’s Mojave Desert, for around $666,000. The couple reportedly still maintains a beach house in the outer Cape Cod area of Massachusetts that goes by Kate’s Lazy Cape.

    Click here for more photos of the Woodstock residence.

    Phil Mansfield

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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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    Inside Reese Witherspoon’s $36 Million Property Portfolio

    Reese Witherspoon may have started as America’s sweetheart, but she’s since become a Hollywood powerhouse with serious business and real estate savvy. Over the past three decades, she’s built a career that spans acting, producing, and entrepreneurship, moving seamlessly between box-office hits, prestige television, and passion projects. That success has also translated into some of the industry’s top paychecks—at least $1 million per episode for television, including $1.2 million for The Morning Show, which she also produces.

    In 2012, the Legally Blonde star cofounded Pacific Standard, the company behind acclaimed films like Wild and Gone Girl. Four years later, she transformed it into Hello Sunshine, a women-driven media giant. In 2021, the company was sold for over $900 million to a Blackstone-backed media firm, with Witherspoon joining the board, staying involved in daily operations, and retaining significant equity. The company has delivered hits like Big Little Lies and Little Fires Everywhere and developed high-profile adaptations, including Where the Crawdads Sing and Netflix’s From Scratch.

    Her empire also extends to Reese’s Book Club, which counts 2.1 million followers and has seen 42 of its 50 picks land on The New York Times Best Sellers list—providing a built-in audience for future screen projects.

    Off-screen, the Academy Award winner has built a reputation as a real estate aficionado, buying, selling, and flipping homes across Los Angeles and her hometown of Nashville for the past two decades. Much like fellow celebrities such as Ellen DeGeneres, she’s developed a knack for turning high-end properties into investments. In recent years alone, she’s sold a Los Angeles property for $21.5 million—after paying under $16 million in 2020—and offloaded a Nashville home for nearly double what she paid in 2018.

    Many of these properties aren’t full-time residences but rather investments, retreats, or future projects. Still, each reflects Witherspoon’s sharp eye for style, comfort, and long-term value. From storybook Southern estates to sleek West Coast escapes and Bahamian hideaways, the homes of her collection are covered in more detail below.

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    Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo’s Former Oceanfront Home in Hawaii Can Be Yours for $5 Million

    Life is too short, so why waste precious time when it comes to snapping us this idyllic coastal retreat? The oceanfront oasis in Hawaii that Pat Benatar and Neil “Spyder” Giraldo once called home has once again surfaced for sale on the eastern end of Maui near the remote town of Hana, where the Rock & Roll Hall of Famers were married in the early 1980s. The asking price is a dash under $5 million, with Christopher Barca and Bradley Newton of Compass sharing the listing.

    With a main home and a guest suite offering up a total of three bedrooms and four baths in roughly 3,300 square feet, the secluded spread has more than enough room for any like-minded power couple to release their inner fantasy while enjoying picturesque views stretching from the Big Island to the Haleakala Crater. Famously owned by the “Heartbreaker” singer and her longtime guitarist husband for around 17 years, records show the plantation-style residence was sold by the duo in 2017 for $3.1 million and last traded hands in early 2020 for $3.2 million.

    A lanai off the great room is the perfect spot to dine amid scenic Pacific vistas.

    Andrew Keith

    RELATED: Roseanne Barr Is Selling Her 46-Acre Hawaii Ranch for $2 Million

    Perched atop a private cove on an acre-plus parcel fronting Waikoloa’s Black Sand Beach, the primary dwelling was completed in 2002 and showcases travertine tile floors, soaring ceilings bolstered by skylights, wood-paneled walls, and vast expanses of glass.

    Upon entry, an open-concept great room features a living room equipped with a bamboo-clad wet bar, a dining area alongside a built-in buffet, and a kitchen boasting granite countertops, a glossy white subway tile backsplash, and high-end Viking and Sub-Zero appliances. Collapsible doors flow seamlessly to a lanai ideal for alfresco dining. The vaulted primary bedroom sports an inviting bath with a pedestal soaking tub and access to a large outdoor lava rock shower, while a cupola up top has two separate decks.

    The primary bedroom has an en suite bath with access to an outdoor lava rock shower.

    Andrew Keith

    RELATED: Julia Roberts’s Former Hawaii Hideaway Can Be Yours for $30 Million

    In addition to a recording studio-turned-guest suite sitting above a detached two-car garage, the lush grounds are dotted with coconut trees and hold manicured gardens lined with Hawaii-inspired rock walls and lounge areas overlooking sweeping Pacific vistas. An added bonus: The retreat is set amid Hana’s pristine waterfalls, freshwater pools, and hiking spots, and just minutes away from the Waioka Pond (aka, the Venus Pool) and popular Hamoa Beach.

    Benatar and Giraldo acquired the Hawaii property in 2000 for $550,000 and then began designing and building the main house. Five years later, they doled out $400,000 more for the vacant parcel next door, which they used to host barbecues, play bocce ball, and hit golf balls. The pair currently own two homes in the Los Angeles area, one a Malibu equestrian ranch they bought in 2006 for $1.6 million and another in Hidden Hills they picked up in 2019 for $4 million.

    Click here for more photos of the Maul residence.

    Andrew Keith

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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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    50 Cent’s Former Connecticut Home Hits The Market (PHOTOS)

    Listed with Sherry Borgeson of Berkshire Hathaway NE Prop. LOCATION: Farmington, Connecticut SQUARE FOOTAGE: 51,830 BEDROOMS & BATHROOMS: 21 bedrooms & 40 bathrooms PRICE: $9,900,000 This is the former home of rapper turned actor/mogul 50 Cent (real name Curtis Jackson). He sold it in 2009 for just $2.9 million and first listed it for $18.5 […] More

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    The Pharma Exec Behind Mounjaro Lists His 117-Acre Wyoming Ranch for $40 Million

    A sprawling Wyoming ranch long owned by retired Eli Lilly Research Labs president Dr. Jan Lundberg has just hit the market. Perched on a ridgeline above the picturesque Jackson Hole Valley surrounded by the Teton Range, about 15 minutes from downtown Jackson, the 117-acre spread is for sale at a dash under $40 million. Latham Jenkins of Live Water Properties holds the listing.

    Records show that the current pharmaceutical consultant—a key figure behind the development of the diabetes-turned-weight-loss drug Mounjaro—and his longtime wife Anna acquired the property in 2021. Set within the exclusive 500-acre Riva Ridge community and described as a “once-in-a-generation holding,” the compound was originally built in 2009.

    A formal dining room with majestic mountain views opens to a patio with an outdoor kitchen.

    Latham Jenkins/Live Water Properties

    RELATED: This Massive $80 Million Wyoming Ranch Is Bigger Than L.A. and N.Y.C. Combined

    Five en suite bedrooms and nine baths can be found in the hand-hewn log and stone-accented main lodge, which has a little more than 12,700 square feet across three levels. In addition to a soaring window-lined great room topped by a rustic antler chandelier and warmed by a massive fireplace encased in boulders, other highlights include a two-story library and a formal dining room that flows to a gourmet kitchen outfitted with custom cabinetry, dual islands, Wolf appliances, and a fireside breakfast banquette.

    Elsewhere is a primary suite featuring a private deck and an inviting bath spotlighted by a sculpted marble soaking tub, plus an 1,800-bottle wine cellar with a tasting room, a tiered movie theater, a bar-equipped game room, and a gym with a sauna and steam room. A heated indoor pool and spa has accordion-style glass doors opening out to a patio overlooking one of three ponds.

    The indoor pool and spa opens out to a patio alongside a pond.

    Latham Jenkins/Live Water Properties

    RELATED: A Wyoming Ranch of Almost 1.2 Million Acres Hits the Market for $22 Million

    Also on the completely off-grid estate is an underground tunnel that leads from the main house to a one-bedroom, one-bath guest suite atop a three-car garage that’s also outfitted with a greenhouse and a 45-kilowatt generator. There’s also a detached four-bedroom, four-bath guesthouse. And with nearly 70 percent of the overall acreage under a conservation easement that prevents development, the property also ensures wide-open views paired with plenty of elk, deer, moose, and raptor sightings.

    Since retiring from Eli Lilly in 2018, the biopharmaceutical veteran has been using expertise to drive drug discovery and development at biotech firms, pharmaceutical companies, and academic institutions. In addition to their Wyoming estate, the couple also owns a waterfront home in Florida that serves as their primary residence.

    Click here for more photos of the Jackson Hole residence.

    Latham Jenkins/Live Water Properties

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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 Ed Ruscha’s Onetime L.A. Compound Just Listed for $4.6 Million

    Back in 1987, iconic anti-pop artist Edward “Ed” Ruscha doled out $2.6 million for a ranch house in the Mandeville Canyon area of Brentwood. He and his wife, Danica, went on to acquire the home next door when it came up for sale—to avoid having it torn down and replaced with what Ruscha called a “three-story Swiss Tudor Pop Gothic”—and then engaged architectural designer Morgan Livingston to help combine the two existing 1950s structures into a seamless live/work compound that was later featured in the pages of Architectural Digest.

    The couple eventually sold the entire spread in the early 2000s for $1.95 million to a creative couple, who in turn transferred the place in 2011 for $2.5 million to Little Minx founder and president Rhea Scott, a film and commercial producer most known for her work on music videos for everyone from the Red Hot Chili Peppers to Madonna. Now, 14 years later, the artistic property has returned to the market, this time at a speck under $4.7 million. Frank Langen of Compass holds the listing.

    A vaulted fireside great room with plenty of natural light is the perfect spot for displaying art.

    Gavin Cater

    RELATED: L.A.’s Famed 112-Acre Robert Taylor Ranch Is Back on the Market for $70 Million

    Set behind gates on a corner parcel spanning almost two acres and faced with energetic murals, the residence features a total of four bedrooms and six baths sprawled across 6,350 square feet of single-level living space connected by a central great room boasting a 14-foot-tall beamed ceiling, oversized windows, and a fireplace.

    An eye-catching Dutch door swings open into an entry foyer, which flows to a bookshelf-lined library, a glass-encased dining room, and a large kitchen sporting zigzag-patterns painted on pale hardwood floors, an eat-in island, top-tier stainless appliances, and a fireside sitting area alongside a breakfast nook. A vaulted, pink-hued primary suite donning the same floors found in the kitchen has French doors spilling out to a patio.

    An eye-catching eat-in kitchen has hardwood floors fashioned in a zigzag pattern.

    Gavin Cater

    RELATED: Designer Windsor Smith Left Her Signature Mark on This $19.5 Million Estate in L.A.

    In addition to a meditation studio and a one-bedroom guesthouse, the palm tree-dotted grounds also host numerous spots ideal for alfresco lounging and entertaining, plus a kidney-shaped pool with a diving board, a fire pit, a treehouse, and a cactus garden.

    Ruscha, a Nebraska native whose pieces have brought in prices upwards of $30 million, currently maintains a substantial Southern California real estate portfolio that includes two homes in the Trousdale Estates neighborhood of Beverly Hills, as well as a house in Malibu’s Point Dume neighborhood, a gigantic studio complex in Culver City, and several hundred acres of vacant land in the Mojave Desert, near Joshua Tree.

    As for Scott, who happens to be the daughter of legendary filmmaker Ridley Scott, she’s also simultaneously selling a restored 1920s Spanish retreat in West Hollywood listed for $2 million.

    Click here for more photos of the Brentwood residence.

    Gavin Cater

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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 1930s L.A. Home Steeped in Hollywood History Just Listed for $2.2 Million

    If the walls of this charming 1930s home in the Laurel Canyon enclave of Hollywood Hills could talk, they would probably regale listeners with tales of how the late Oscar-nominated costume designer Theodora Van Runkle lived there while working on wardrobes for films like Bonnie and Clyde, The Godfather II, and Peggy Sue Got Married—in a studio she reportedly created out of an enormous wine vat culled from the set of Wuthering Heights, no less.

    Or maybe they would speak of the residence’s setting as a creative haven for music legends like Joni Mitchell, Frank Zappa, John Lennon, and Jim Morrison. In fact, the latter’s Doors bandmates, Robby Krieger and John Densmore, bunked together at a house right down the street. It’s there that the charismatic lead singer was said to crash on occasion, once taking a walk around the surrounding neighborhood and returning with the lyrics for the Billboard chart-topper “People Are Strange.”

    But that’s not all. At one point, Van Runkle shared the home with her ex-husband, actor and photographer Bruce McBroom, who took the iconic shot for Farrah Fawcett’s 1976 red swimsuit poster that’s now on display at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.

    The living room is topped with a crystal chandelier hanging from a whitewashed pressed-tin ceiling.

    David Archer

    RELATED: Rob Zombie Just Sold His Two-House L.A. Compound for Nearly $9 Million

    The commercial illustrator-turned-costume designer died from lung cancer in 2011 at age 83, and the three-bedroom, three-bath home was last sold in late 2015 for $1.7 million. Now, a decade later, this footnote of Hollywood history—and all its intriguing anecdotes—is up for grabs at the tidy sum of $2.25 million. The pad has been dubbed Pebble Court as a nod to outdoor spaces that the also-prolific painter covered in small pebbles. Those areas have since been upgraded with new decking to accommodate events, but some of those small stones have been scattered on pathways as an ode to the onetime owner.

    “Every inch of this home is steeped in artistry, legacy, and vision,” said Madeline Goldberg of Compass, who holds the listing. “It is a true piece of art and still carries the creative energy of Laurel Canyon circa 1967.”

    The kitchen comes with an antique O’Keefe & Merritt range and a window-lined breakfast nook.

    David Archer

    RELATED: This $5.9 Million Canyonside Home in L.A. Was Once Owned by a Songwriter for the Eagles

    Tucked away on nearly half an acre at the end of a lengthy gated driveway, the bohemian-chic oasis offers roughly 1,300 square feet of pristine white living space teeming with a mix of hardwood and penny tile floors, wood-paneled walls, casement windows, and soaring pressed-tin ceilings dotted with skylights.

    Among the highlights is a spacious fireside living room that opens to the outside via French doors, plus a sun-drenched kitchen sporting an antique O’Keefe & Merritt range and a cozy breakfast nook. The primary bedroom comes with a fireplace and an en suite bath flaunting a built-in oval soaking tub topped with a duo of stained-glass windows. Adjacent to the primary is a sitting area, which has a fireplace and a spiral staircase leading up to a loft.

    The garden-laced grounds feature a large decked gathering space with a new outdoor kitchen and a flagstone patio that’s ideal for alfresco dining. More reasons to fall in love: a separate one-bedroom, one-bath casita with its own fireplace, kitchen, and living area.

    Click here for more photos of the Hollywood Hills residence.

    David Archer

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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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