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in LuxurySylvester Stallone Halts Plans for a Sea Barrier Around His Palm Beach Home After Neighbors Pitch a Fit
Sylvester Stallone is the talk of the town after pissing off his Palm Beach neighbors. The 78-year-old actor decamped from Hollywood to South Florida almost five years ago, snapping up a $35 million mansion with a private dock on the Intracoastal Waterway. The on-screen tough-guy recently ruffled more than a few feathers after it was revealed he wanted to install a sea barrier around his palatial estate to prevent seaweed and other debris from washing up on the private beach in his backyard, Bloomberg reported.
“It’s unbelievable to me that you can have your house, your things, your boat—the place that’s your sanctuary—and you can have some guy sit there for 10 months and do his laundry in front of me and there’s nothing you can do about it,” he pleaded to the Palm Beach Town council. In addition, Stallone mentioned in the application that he wanted to protect his residence from garbage that often gets dropped into the water. According to the news site, Stallone even raised the issue with incoming president Donald Trump, whose Mar-a-Lago property is about eight miles down the road.
Stallone ponied up $35 million for the waterfront estate that includes a private stretch of sugary sand.
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The plan would require him to lease a chunk of underwater land from the state where the barrier would be built, rising 18 inches out of the water. However, Stallone’s lawyer stepped in during the proceedings and declared that the proposal has been officially withdrawn after council members and local residents voiced their concerns about the actor’s infringement on public waterways. “It’s tough being so famous, and we have lots of celebrities and important people who live here, but you’re the only Rocky and Rambo, so it’s tough. I think we simply must object to this particular one,” said council president Bobbie Lindsay.
Stallone acquired the 13,000-square-foot lakefront compound back in December of 2020. Altogether, the sprawling estate has seven bedrooms and 10 bathrooms, plus a gym, a library, a swimming pool, and a family room with a wet bar, Realtor.com reported.
In February, the Italian Stallion declared that he would be leaving California permanently to live full-time in the Sunshine State. Indeed, he’d already sold his Golden State home in the celeb-packed Los Angeles suburb of Hidden Hills to musician John Fogerty in October 2023 for $17 million. Celebrity pedigree aside, what made headlines is the fact that the former Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman flipped the residence six months later with a $4.3 million bump in the asking price. The year before, Stallone sold his longtime home in the ritzy Beverly Park enclave for $58 million to Adele, who has since ripped most of the house down to make way for an all-new custom home. And, earlier this month, the Tulsa King star splashed out $25 million—in cash!—for a recently rebuilt and glamorously apointed home in East Hampton for his three daughters, Sophia, Sistine, and Scarlet.
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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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in Luxury‘Queer Eye’ Star Bobby Berk Just Listed His L.A. Design HQ for $2.8 Million
Bobby Berk announced his exit from Netflix’s Queer Eye earlier this year, and now the celebrity interior designer is parting ways with the Los Angeles estate that served as his firm’s home office.
The 43-year-old reality star shelled out a cool $1.375 million for the Hollywood Hills residence back in 2019—a departure from his former glass-box space in the historic Pacific Electric Building. Berk personally designed the Spanish-style property himself, which was built back in the 1970s, during the pandemic and is seeking $2.75 million for his one-time headquarters.
“I wanted to find a space where I could really showcase our designs and products in a residential interior setting,” Berk told Architectural Digest in spring 2023 regarding his decision to forgo a more traditional office. “The front of this house is completely set up as if it’s an actual home. It has a dining room, the kitchen, and living room. There’s a little library office that we use if somebody needs to take a Zoom and they don’t want to do it in front of everybody.”
The kitchen has a marble island and matte black cabinets.
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Altogether, the renovated digs measure roughly 3,000 square feet and feature four bedrooms and three full bathrooms. If you’re a fan of Berk’s work on the big screen, the place embodies his signature, statement-making aesthetic. Think tons of light oak wood and lots of earth tones, plus splashes of black, brass, and swaths of marble. Other architectural details include exposed beam ceilings, new skylights, three custom fireplaces, and arched windows.
According to AD, Berk took down the walls on the second floor to create one big communal workspace. However, it previously held a trio of bedrooms. Downstairs, the first level of the house is equipped with a stunning chef’s kitchen with a massive white Calacatta Extra marble island, brass cabinets, and top-of-the-line Dacor appliances. You’ll also find a butler’s pantry, two ensuite guest bedrooms, a living area, and a formal dining room with a chic wet bar.
The second floor served as Berk’s workspace.
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Berk made plenty of updates to the outdoor area too, he revealed to Domino. In fact, the overhaul of the backyard included installing large inset pavers to the patio, adding brushed concrete, and building a new hilltop pergola and alfresco kitchen. Interestingly, the pad isn’t far from Berk’s own home above Lake Hollywood, which definitely made the commute easier. According to records, the TV host dropped $2.3 million on the three-bed, two-bath spread in 2020.
Nadine Guyaux of Redfin holds the listing.
Click here to see more photos of Bobby Berk’s design headquarters.
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in LuxuryBillionaire Heir to the Hyatt Hotel Fortune Lists Bel Air Home For $195 Million
Exterior Listed with KURT RAPPAPORT (310) 995-3214 of westside estate agency inc. LOCATION: 1261 Angelo Drive, Beverly Hills, California SQUARE FOOTAGE: 50,000 BEDROOMS & BATHROOMS: 16 bedrooms & 27 bathrooms PRICE: $195,000,000 This modern mega home is owned by Anthony Pritzker, a member of the Pritzker family and an heir to the Hyatt Hotel fortune. He […] More
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in LuxuryBillionaire Heir to the Hyatt Hotel Fortune Lists Beverly Hills Home For $195 Million
Exterior Listed with KURT RAPPAPORT (310) 995-3214 of westside estate agency inc. LOCATION: 1261 Angelo Drive, Beverly Hills, California SQUARE FOOTAGE: 50,000 BEDROOMS & BATHROOMS: 16 bedrooms & 27 bathrooms PRICE: $195,000,000 This modern mega home is owned by Anthony Pritzker, a member of the Pritzker family and an heir to the Hyatt Hotel fortune. He […] More
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in LuxuryYou Can Rent Full House Creator Jeff Franklin’s Beverly Hills Home for $225,000/Month
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in LuxuryFloyd Mayweather Lists Beverly Hills Home For $48 Million (PHOTOS)
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in LuxuryDiddy Lists Los Angeles Home For $61 Million (PHOTOS)
Listed with Kurt Rappaport (310) 995-3214 of Westside Estate Agency Inc. Sean “Diddy” Combs has just listed his Los Angeles, California estate for $61 million. Located at 200 S Mapleton Drive, the 1+ acre estate features a main house and guest house. He purchased it back in 2014 for a little over $39 million. There […] More
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in LuxuryFormer MLB Owner’s Pebble Beach Estate Goes for a Record $45 Million
Though it was never officially on the market, former San Diego Padres owner John Moores’s lavish Pebble Beach home just sold for a whopping $45 million, making it the priciest residential transaction in Monterey County to date, surpassing the $40 million transfer of a historic Carmel Highlands estate to Brad Pitt in 2022. As first reported by The Real Deal, the buyer of the aptly named Masterpiece on 18, which was most recently promoted with a $55 million ask, is an as-yet-unnamed entity tied to the LLC WhiteApple DE.
“We are delighted that we could orchestrate a successful discreet marketing and sale of our client’s estate, one of only five prestigious homes located on the 18th hole of this iconic golf course,” said Tim Allen of Coldwell Banker Realty, who repped Moores in the deal. “The allure of unparalleled amenities and spectacular ocean views awaiting the new owners has propelled this closing to an all-time record high for Monterey County home sales.”
The home is nestled alongside what is perhaps the most recognizable finishing hole in golf.
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Records show Moores and his now ex-wife Rebecca acquired the property for $7 million in 1994, the same year the wealthy Texas-born software company founder and venture capitalist purchased a majority share of the Padres Major League Baseball franchise from Tom Werner Group for around $80 million (Moores sold the team for $800 million in 2012 and was voted into the Padres Hall of Fame last year). The couple subsequently had an existing home razed and enlisted Texas-based Robert E. Griffin Architects to design a brand-new limestone and domed copper roof structure, which was completed in 1996.
Nestled amid a nearly 1.8-acre parcel overlooking the 18th fairway of the exclusive Pebble Beach Golf Links and Pacific Ocean, the striking residence features a total of five bedrooms and 10 baths sprawled across 10,500 square feet of single-level living space decked out with radiant-heated stone floors, plaster walls, warm wood accents, and vast expanses of glass. There’s also a four-car tiled and heated garage, plus a guest suite.
A spacious fireside living room offers up a view of a grand cypress and the crashing waves of the Pacific.
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Additional highlights include a sleekly designed kitchen outfitted with dual islands and top-notch appliances, along with a handsome fireside office and a sumptuous primary suite boasting a luxe bath. Outdoors, the landscaped grounds host a putting green, a greenhouse, a pond flanked by bear sculptures (though the bears are not part of the sale), and a duo of large stone-clad patios—one in the front with a fireplace and a bronze trellis and the other out back holding a kitchen setup and two fire-pits.
Click here for more photos of John Moores’s Pebble Beach home.
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