10 Most Expensive Celebrity Homes

RichUK · Mar 17, 2014

http://likesdaily.com/10-most-expensive-celebrity-homes/

GagHalfrunt · Mar 17, 2014

It's good to be da king.

I don't think Ozzy at $10 million makes it into the top 1000 most expensive celebrity homes let alone the top 10.

Mai72 · Mar 17, 2014

Ah the 1%.

What about the poor? We could fit 10,000 poor families easily on Oprah's property.

Gibsons · Mar 17, 2014

yay, a slideshow

JMapleton · Mar 18, 2014

Dumbest website ever. Outdated and inaccurate information.

Sluggo · Mar 18, 2014

Since these are celebrity houses this is absolutely acceptable.

Now if they were CEO houses, we would have to discuss how Corporate America is only profiting on the backs on the working stiff, and the income equality metric must be equalized.

Argo · Mar 18, 2014

Sluggo said:
Since these are celebrity houses this is absolutely acceptable.

Now if they were CEO houses, we would have to discuss how Corporate America is only profiting on the backs on the working stiff, and the income equality metric must be equalized.

Well, to be fair there is one (ex)CEO there. But he leans quite a bit to the left, so its all good

RichUK · Mar 18, 2014

JMapleton said:
Dumbest website ever. Outdated and inaccurate information.

Are you able to point out the gaps / inaccuracies?

I just found it interesting, regardless of how out of date it might be.

mikeymikec · Mar 18, 2014

Sluggo said:
Since these are celebrity houses this is absolutely acceptable.

Everyone loves the celebs.

gorcorps · Mar 18, 2014

RichUK said:
Are you able to point out the gaps / inaccuracies?

I just found it interesting, regardless of how out of date it might be.

Yeah, I'd like to hear what the current top 10 list is if he's so sure this isn't right.

nageov3t · Mar 18, 2014

RichUK said:
Are you able to point out the gaps / inaccuracies?

the #1 home, Spelling Manor, is actually no longer owned by a celebrity (the Formula One CEO bought it a few years ago)... and while it was listed at $150 million, it eventually sold for "only" $85 mill.

I saw a docu-reality show on the house a couple years ago... interesting note was that apparently it was designed by Aaron Spelling's wife, but she'd never done blueprints before and accidentally had the structure built much larger than originally intended.

JManInPhoenix · Mar 18, 2014

A lot of ugly monstrosities. I did like Bill Gates house though.

Scarpozzi · Mar 18, 2014

loki8481 said:
the #1 home, Spelling Manor, is actually no longer owned by a celebrity (the Formula One CEO bought it a few years ago)... and while it was listed at $150 million, it eventually sold for "only" $85 mill.

I saw a docu-reality show on the house a couple years ago... interesting note was that apparently it was designed by Aaron Spelling's wife, but she'd never done blueprints before and accidentally had the structure built much larger than originally intended.

My wife was watching a show about that place....might have been the same one. After Aaron Spelling died, his wife was trying to pack up all her stuff to move out....I can't imagine how difficult it would be to let stuff go from a place that large. In other words, most people with 2000 square feet have trouble cleaning out rooms.....you could easily be a hoarder in a place like that and it'd take forever to notice.....even more difficult to clean up/clean out.

BlahBlahYouToo · Mar 18, 2014

Argo said:
Well, to be fair there is one (ex)CEO there. But he leans quite a bit to the left, so its all good

and a couple of black folk. it's ok if they're rich.

SearchMaster · Mar 18, 2014

JManInPhoenix said:
A lot of ugly monstrosities. I did like Bill Gates house though.

One of my former customers did much of the masonry work for that house. There was also a lot of "smart house" technology installed that was state-of-the-art in the early 90s but fairly pedestrian now. For example, guests would register with the concierge (or whatever their title is) and indicate their favorite music style, lighting preferences, etc. then their section of the house was tailored accordingly.

Gates complained at first because the property taxes were going to be well over $600,000 (over $1M today). He said his salary was only $600K and his property taxes shouldn't be higher than his salary. Obviously his stock options and bonuses netted a lot more than his base salary.

CPA · Mar 18, 2014

Korea74 said:
Ah the 1%.

What about the poor? We could fit 10,000 poor families easily on Oprah's property.

What about them?

T9D · Mar 18, 2014

Don't forget her, she's a reality star:

http://gawker.com/the-queen-of-versailles-shows-off-the-progress-on-her-1401640614

Sonikku · Mar 18, 2014

We need a top ten most expensive ATOT homes list.

Crusty · Mar 18, 2014

That website reads like a 10yr old wrote it.

Red Squirrel · Mar 18, 2014

Sonikku said:
We need a top ten most expensive ATOT homes list.

Could make a nice list, I think I recall someone saying their house was close to 1mil.

The only issue I'd have with having such a huge house is the time it would take to clean it, not to mention the property taxes. Though I guess when you make that much money you hire a building maintenance service that does the cleaning, plowing, mowing etc....

I'm happy with my 1100sqf house, and I'd be fine living in something smaller if I had to.

nageov3t · Mar 18, 2014

Red Squirrel said:
Could make a nice list, I think I recall someone saying their house was close to 1mil.

The only issue I'd have with having such a huge house is the time it would take to clean it, not to mention the property taxes. Though I guess when you make that much money you hire a building maintenance service that does the cleaning, plowing, mowing etc....

I'm happy with my 1100sqf house, and I'd be fine living in something smaller if I had to.

:thumbsup:

the less space you have, the less you have to deal with friends/family looking for a place to crash (re: free hotel room when they're in town)

3 bedrooms would probably be my max if I were home shopping (and even then, figuring that 1 bedroom would be a home office for my partner and I if we didn't have space for separate offices and the 2nd bedroom would be a storage room with a cot thrown in the corner)

JMapleton · Mar 19, 2014

RichUK said:
Are you able to point out the gaps / inaccuracies?

I just found it interesting, regardless of how out of date it might be.

Most of those houses are no longer owned by who the website says owns them.

Most of the square footage estimates are incorrect. (ie, Billy Joel's house, 300k square feet? give me a break)

And define "celebrity"? There are many other "famous person" houses are are more expensive and bigger than the ones listed here, depending on how you define celebrity.

The website owner is clearly just slopping together a MFA (Made for Adsense) site just to get clicks.

JMapleton · Mar 19, 2014

T9D said:
Don't forget her, she's a reality star:

http://gawker.com/the-queen-of-versailles-shows-off-the-progress-on-her-1401640614

More innaccurate information. That is not the "America's biggest home." Not even if you exclude occupied homes.

Mai72 · Mar 19, 2014

CPA said:
What about them?

We should help the poor.

JulesMaximus · Mar 19, 2014

Sluggo said:
Since these are celebrity houses this is absolutely acceptable.

Now if they were CEO houses, we would have to discuss how Corporate America is only profiting on the backs on the working stiff, and the income equality metric must be equalized.

WHAAA! Won't someone think of the poor rich CEOs?

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