Who? & Where?
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Joan Collins
Joan Collins pursued acting professionally back in the 1950s. Some of her most famous roles were on Dynasty, Rally Round the Flag, Boys!, and The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing.
The place was not that big and it only had two bedrooms. Collins bought it for $2.7 million back in 2007 but she later listed it with an asking price estimated at $4.5 million.
Collins is quite the real estate investor as she also owns homes in New York and London. Collins’ most recent role was on an episode of Hawaii Five-0 in 2019.
Julie Andrews
Julia Andrews is a highly respected actress who most of you have surely watched in movies like The Sound of Music and Mary Poppins. Thanks to her affluence, Andrews was able to buy herself some very nice homes over the years. Andrews once lived in a lavish townhouse in London back in the 1970s.
The house was seen on the market again in 2018 with a $33-million price tag.
The 7,000 square-foot house comes with five bedrooms, a steam room, a whirlpool tub, a dry sauna, and a yoga studio. Andrews’ most recent project was her voice role on Aquaman, in 2018.
Michael Caine
Michael Caine has been a household name in the acting scene since the 1960s.
He already boasts more than 130 credits in his acting portfolio. Caine once spent around $4 million for a condominium in South Beach, Miami.
This three-bedroom condo is located in a beautifully designed building that comes with a very nice swimming pool. Caine got to sell the place in 2018 for $7.45 million.
He is quite busy as of today and he is set to star in three upcoming films titled Medieval, Four Kids and It, and Come Away.
Caitlyn Jenner
Caitlyn Jenner was once the proud owner of an $8 million mansion in Malibu, California.
The sprawling beach house is built on 4,456 square feet of space and features four bedrooms, four bathrooms, and it also has its own private path to the ocean!
While the view is gorgeous, the interiors are equally breathtaking.
Designed with high ceilings, open skylights, and sliding glass walls, it feels like you are spending every day in nature’s lap.
Billy Connolly
Billy Connolly established himself as a folk singer during the late 1960s but he eventually gained more success when he pursued a career as a comedian in the 1970s.
Connolly has retired from comedy and is very much into art these days. In 2018, he had his very first art exhibition.
He got into real estate investing over the years and photographed above is the stylish apartment he once owned in New York.
He bought the apartment back in 2007 and it featured an open plan design. Connolly sold the place back in 2016 for about $4.62 million.
Tina Turner
Tina Turner is an icon in the music scene and many call her the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll. Turner and former husband Ike Turner once lived in a beautiful house in Los Angeles which had a totally retro vibe to it. Back in 2017, someone was able to buy the place for $870K.
The house is about 2,900 square feet and it comes with four bedrooms. As you can see, the current owners have made sure that the furniture used inside the place still live up to the retro feel of the place. The Broadway musical about Turner’s life titled Tina is set to open in the fall of 2019.
Faye Dunaway
Faye Dunaway is an award-winning actress who is best known for the performances she gave in films like Network, Bonnie & Clyde, and Chinatown.
Thanks to her proper wealth management over the years, she was able to live in some very comfortable homes. Back in 1998, she spent $315K for a house in West Hollywood.
After many years of living in the two-bedroom abode, Dunaway was able to sell it back in 2015 for $1.45 million. It was announced in December 2018 that Dunaway would be making a Broadway comeback. She is set to star in the one-woman play titled, Tea at Five.
Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith’s acting career has been bringing her a ton of earnings for more than six decades now.
The mansion in the photo above is not really Smith’s for it was actually the house of her Downton Abbey character named Lady Violet Crawley.
The Manor was placed on the market in 2015 and it was later sold for around $7.9 million. Smith is set to play Lady Violet Crawley again in the upcoming Downton Abbey movie.
Osi Umenyiora & Leila Lopes
Osi Umenyiora is best recognized for his time with the New York Giants because he bagged two Super Bowl championships with them. Umenyiora retired back in 2015 and later pursued a career as a BBC Sports pundit.
Umenyiora once owned a beautiful mansion in Atlanta which had a stunning view of the Chattahoochee River.
The estate has been on the market for a long time now and its current asking price is estimated to be at $2.3 million.
Britney Spears
Britney Spears needs little introduction as she’s been popular worldwide since her first album in 1997 called Baby One More Time.
She continued her success throughout the next two decades, releasing nine studio albums and amassing a $215-million personal fortune. Britney and Elizabeth Arden, Inc. launched a perfume in 2004, said to have earned a total of $1.5B alone.
Ca, for $7.4M. This cool mansion has 13,264 square feet of room and sits on 21 acres of land.
Rihanna
Rihanna is a well-known singer and songwriter from Saint Michael, Barbados. She rose to fame with her debut album Music of the Sun and has since released seven more albums. All of these ranked in the top 10 in the Billboard’s 200 USA.
Rihanna won nine Grammys and numerous other awards, while Time listed her two times on their ‘most influential people in the world’ list, in 2012 and 2018. In 2013,
It is an island villa divided into several apartments with separate bathrooms and terraces, with 10,000 square feet in total.
Courteney Cox
Courteney Cox is an actress, best known as Monica Geller from the world-famous sitcom, Friends.
She was in Scream, Ace Ventura, Dirt, and others, and Courteney has also directed some of the projects she starred in, like Cougar Town and Talhotblond. Courteney’s $1-million salary per episode of Friends earned her and her co-stars in the show a Guinness Book of World record. She was most recently seen in an episode of the comedy series Shameless in 2018. Courteney listed her home in Malibu, Ca, but no official price has been revealed.
Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga is a world-famous singer and songwriter, best known for such hits as Poker Face, Bad Romance, Telephone, Alejandro, Just Dance, and many others.
She has released five studio albums so far, all with commercial success and she also appeared in several movies.
Lady Gaga was most recently seen in the 2018’s remake of A Star Is Born which marked Bradley Cooper’s directorial debut.
The movie earned over $421M worldwide and Gaga, Cooper, and Sam Elliot all got high praises for their performances.
In 2016, Lady Gaga shelled out $5.23M for an LA home which was once owned by the legendary Frank Zappa.
Kate Hudson
Kate Hudson is an actress and a co-founder of Fabletics fitness brand. Her notable roles include films like Almost Famous, which earned Kate an Oscar nomination,
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Nine, Deepwater Horizon, and others. While married to Matthew Bellamy, they bought this house in Pacific Palisades, Malibu, for $5.3M. It has 7,000 square feet of space and was built in 1935. Kate is now with Danny Fujikawa.
Kate also wrote Pretty Happy: Healthy Ways to Love Your Body and Pretty Fun: Creating and Celebrating a Lifetime of Tradition.
Julia Roberts
Julia Roberts is a world-famous actress who rose to fame after her role on Pretty Woman.
She won an Oscar for her portrayal of Erin Brockovich and has been nominated four times. Julia was in other films like Ocean’s Eleven and its sequel, Valentine’s Day, Money Monster, The Normal Heart, Homecoming, and a host of other movies. She has earned $25M for Mona Lisa Smile and has an estimated fortune of $170M.
Julia sold this New York apartment in 2015 for a reported $5.35M. It is a 2,000 square-foot pad in Greenwich Village, with three bedrooms and three bathrooms.
Angela Lansbury
Angela Lansbury has been acting since the 1940s and she has already won a number of awards over the years.
Back in the 1970s, Lansbury moved to Cork, Ireland because Los Angeles was just becoming too toxic for her children.
Lansbury owns a deluxe house there which has a very peaceful environment.
She also gets to wake up to an amazing view of the ocean every day. Lansbury is not yet done with her acting career as of today and according to her IMDb page,
she will be appearing in a new movie titled The Adventures of Buddy Thunder.
Judi Dench
Dame Judi Dench first gained fame as a theater actress and she is well-recognized for her performances in plays like Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet.
She eventually became an on-screen actress as well and is still making money these days. Dench is part of the upcoming Cats movie which will be released in 2019.
Whenever Dench is not working, she gets to unwind in her estate in Outwood, Surrey, England. She stays in a 6,910-square-foot farmhouse which has four bedrooms. She has a huge garden, swimming pool, and a spacious barn.
Anthony Hopkins
Sir Anthony Hopkins is an award-winning actor who is remembered by many for the performances he gave in movies like The Silence of the Lambs, Nixon, and The Remains of the Day.
Hopkins, who was knighted by the Queen in 1993, owns a property in Malibu which is said to be worth around $5 million.
During the California wildfires in 2018, Hopkins’ neighbors lost their homes but his place was miraculously spared. However, it sustained some damages but he eventually hired people to repair everything.
Jack Nicholson
Jack Nicholson is a famous actor who has been investing in real estate over the years. One of the homes that Nicholson owns is a huge estate in Mulholland Drive which has about four bedrooms.
He also has his own putting green and enjoys smacking some golf balls to the nearby canyon. Nicholson has reportedly been the owner of the estate since the late 1960s.
He hasn’t acted since 2010 but he did appear in a 2017 documentary titled Jack Nicholson – Das teuflische Grinsen Hollywoods
Pierce Brosnan
Pierce Brosnan and his wife, Keely Shaye bought a beautiful single-storey traditional cottage in August 2019 for $2.945 million.
The house is at Santa Monica, California and was built in 1940s. It is a 2,319 square feet with 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.
The house has an office with a stone-faced fireplace with a galley-style kitchen.
The cottage has a window that overlooks the front yard and the living, family and dinning rooms are combined and wood floor.
Cher
Cher has been famous since the mid-1960s and it’s nice to see that she is still doing so much in her career even until today.
. Cher owned a lovely house in Beverly Hills which she bought for about $2.1 million back in 2013.
Each room of the place looks Instagram-worthy because of all the artsy home decor that blends well with the structure.
The house doesn’t have a pool but it does have a koi pond and a spacious backyard. Cher listed the place in 2018 for $2.5 million.
Sophia Loren
Sophia Loren was only sixteen years old when she embarked on an acting career back in 1950. She eventually became famous after she starred in The Voyage,
Two Women, and Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. Loren was married to wealthy producer named Carlo Ponti Sr. and he actually owned a huge villa in Rome.
The estate has five bedrooms, an elevator, a library, and a swimming pool. Loren is not active anymore and her last role was in a 2014 short film titled Human Voice.
Jason Taylor
Jason Taylor had enjoyed a fruitful career with the Miami Dolphins and there was also a time
when he was a part of the New York Jets and the Washington Redskins.
Taylor sold the mansion in 2017 for $3.2 million.
That same year, Taylor finally made it into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Sarah Paulson
American Actress Sarah Paulson has made some amazing choices in her life. Picking up the role in The American Horror Story was one and buying this amazing property was another. She got it off-market for a discounted price.
The beauty surely knows a thing or two about real estate. This house has three bedrooms and three and a half bathrooms.
Covering an area of 2,100 sq.ft, this house has old foundations. However, Sarah Paulson and the previous owners have spent lavishly on the renovations.
John Travolta
John Travolta enjoys legendary status as a Hollywood actor, Some of his most iconic roles were in films such as Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Get Shorty, Pulp Fiction, Face/Off, Swordfish, Hairspray, and many others.
In 2018, Travolta was in Gotti and Speed Kills. His estate in Anthony, Florida, is perhaps better described as an airport.
Among his five planes is a Qantas 707, while obviously, Travolta is a pilot and a flight enthusiast. The entire estate consists of 550 acres of land, while its price remains undisclosed.
Miley Cyrus
Miley Cyrus is a famous singer and songwriter, and the daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus, the famous American country musician.
Her first three studio albums, 2007’s Meet Miley Cyrus, 2008’s Breakout, and 2013’s Bangers all catapulted to #1 at the Billboard 200 USA. Miley’s success continues today and she has also appeared on The Voice and other TV shows.
Her total earnings from 2001 to 2017 were estimated to be over $360M, and Miley now resides with her husband, actor Liam Hemsworth, in Malibu Beach. Their mansion is reportedly worth $2.5M.
Adele
Adele is a world-famous singer and songwriter whose debut album titled 19 (2008) was certified platinum seven times in the United Kingdom and three times in the United States.
So far, she has released three studio albums, all with critical success, and Adele is particularly known for the title song from the 2012 James Bond movie, Skyfall. Her records have sold over 100 million copies worldwide, while her 2016-17 tours saw record-breaking attendance in the UK, US, Australia, and other countries.
In 2016, Adele reportedly bought a $9.5-million Beverly Hills house built in 1977.
Brad Pitt
Brad Pitt is a world-famous actor who needs no introduction. Besides acting, he is a producer and owns Plan B Entertainment, while he is also a known humanitarian.
He was on Thelma & Louise, Legends of the Fall, Interview with the Vampire, Seven, 12 Monkeys, Fight Club, Ocean’s Eleven, and its sequels.
His more recent roles include The Big Short, War Machine, and Allied.
Reportedly though, the couple’s $60-million estate in France with a vineyard will be maintained for the children’s future.
Jennifer Aniston
Jennifer Aniston is a world-famous actress, best known from Friends, a sitcom widely popular in the ‘90s.
Her $1M salary per episode enabled Jennifer and her two female co-stars to enter the Guinness Book of World Records.
Jennifer was also on Bruce Almighty, Marley & Me, Horrible Bosses, The Good Girl, Cake, and many more films. This Beverly Hills house was designed by Hal Levitt and built in 1972.
Jennifer bought it in 2006 for $13.5M but as of 2011, its price has been set at $42M but it is unclear if it is listed for sale.
Nicole Kidman
Nicole Kidman is a world-famous actress who began her movie career on BMX Bandits and Bush Christmas.
She was also on Days of Thunder, Far and Away, Batman Forever, To Die For, Evey Wide Shut, and a lot more full movies. Nicole’s roles on Moulin Rouge! and The Hours got her two Oscar nominations.
She is currently on the Big Little Lies TV series. Kidman has been married to Keith Urban since 2006, and they own a farmhouse in Australia.
Built all the way back in 1878, this Gregorian-style house was worth $6.5M when they bought it. It has six bedrooms and sits on 110 acres of land.
