With his $21 million Chicago mansion re-listed, Hall of Famer Michael Jordan, who led the Chicago Bulls to six NBA titles, being thereafter inducted into the NBA Hall of Fame in 2009, is currently spending much of his time at a 28,000-square-foot estate on Jupiter Island, FL., which he started building in 2010.
In January 2013 the former Chicago Bull Michael Jordan put his luxury 56,000 square-foot Chicago mansion on the market again for $21 million, after he failed to get the $29 million he asked for when he first listed it early in 2012. His Airness’s 56,000-square-foot Highland Park secluded compound was built between 1993 and 1995 and features nine bedrooms, fifteen bathrooms and an indoor regulation basketball court with “specially cushioned hardwood flooring” and “competition-quality high-intensity lighting,” according to listing details.
The Goddess of Pop, singer-actress Cher, has listed her two-storyluxury condo perched on the 26th and 27th floors of star-studded Sierra Towers buildings in West Hollywood, CA as off market. Cher paid for it somewhere between $3 and 4.5 million in January 2006 and redesigned it with the help of friend and interior designer Martyn Lawrence-Bullard into ‘something ethnic, spicy and romantic’. The predominant colors of her rooms creams, ivories and buttery beiges.
In July 2012 media mogul and queen of ‘rapport talk’ shows Oprah sold her Streeterville condo at half the price she paid for it in 2006 ($5.6 million) – such a bargain for a 3-bedroom, 3.5 bath co-op and a number of external rooms. Oprah never lived in the condo, probably because of lack of privacy, and spends her time in the city two blocks away at her massive duplex condo in Water Tower Place.
“We’ve never stayed in any place longer than seven years,” those were Sharon Osbourne’s words when she and her Prince of darkness, heavy metal rocker Ozzy Osbourne, sold their Beverly Hills mansion to Christina Aguilera, when their reality show on MTV came to an end, in 2007, and they purchased a luxurious private estate in Los Angeles’ exclusive gated Hidden Hills community. She got ‘itchy feet’ before seven years had passed, and in 2011 the wacky reality family list this estate as well.
Actor Larry Hagman, who made a memorable character out of J.R.Ewing of soap opera Dallas, passed away last autumn, at the age of 81, leaving behind two estates, one in Santa Monica and another in Ojai, California. His wife, suffering from Alzheimers, unfortunately, has no more use of them.
Two-time Emmy winner and Breaking bad actor Aaron Paul, 34, bought a $1.39 million pad in the Hollywood Hills luxurious area. The two-story mansion built in the 1930s Spanish-villa style stands on a hillside and a cul-de-sac above the Sunset Strip, the stretch of Sunset Boulevard famous for its entertaining industry.
15105 MULHOLLAND DRIVE, Los Angeles, CA 90077: This superb two-story Bel Air luxury estate features five bedrooms and eight bathrooms spread over 11,000 square foot. It is situated in a private and gated zone (24-hour security) and the 2,500-plus square foot of outdoor space includes a swimming pool and two spas.
The unmarried couple – Vanessa Paradis and Johnny Depp – lived with their two children in the suburbs of Paris, a villa in the South of France and a private island in the Bahamas but when they moved to Los Angeles rumor had it that their life together had come to an end. It all came out in the open when Depp acquired a Mediterranean-style Hollywood Hills, reportedly as a parting gift to his ex.
