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{"source_url": "https://realestate.boston.com", "url": "https://realestate.boston.com/news/2019/12/31/top-10-celebrity-homes-on-market-2019/", "title": "See inside the top 10 celebrity homes that hit the market in 2019", "top_image": "http://realestate.boston.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/57-1024x576.jpg", "meta_img": "http://realestate.boston.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/57-1024x576.jpg", "images": ["http://realestate.boston.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/57-1024x576.jpg"], "movies": [], "text": "From the private funicular that takes you to model Cheryl Tiegs\u2019s Palm Springs hideaway to Joe Pesci\u2019s Jersey Shore home with its symbolic barber chair and Kaley Cuoco\u2019s California home with the swing settee, these are the celebrity homes that captured everyone\u2019s attention in 2019, according to TopTenRealEstateDeals.com:\n\n1. Alicia Keys\u2019s \u2018Razor House\u2019\n\nPrevious -- of -- Next Advertisement\n\nThis home\u2019s sleek contemporary lines and commanding views of the Pacific Ocean have graced the pages of cutting-edge magazines and websites around the world, in addition to a starring role in Visa Black Card and Calvin Klein television commercials. \u201cGirl on Fire\u201d and 15-time-Grammy-winner Alicia Keys is the big winner once again and holds the keys to the\u201d Razor House\u201d as its new owner. Designed by Wallace E. Cunningham in La Jolla, California, it was on the market originally at $45 million; Keys paid $20.8 million.\n\nBuilt in 2007, the Razor House extends several stories below the original surface so that each roof forms a terrace to the adjacent upper floor. The center of the structure is essentially hollowed out, creating a perimeter house wrapped around an open courtyard that allows in daylight, moonlight, and stunning views. The main house has 10,240 square feet of living space, including two master suites, two additional bedrooms, six baths, two steam rooms/showers, a gym, a roof-top spa, and a built-in outdoor barbecue. The detached multilevel guest house is 1,301 square feet, with two bedrooms and two baths.\n\nLuxury finishes and special touches include travertine stone floors that run continuously from interior to exterior, solid-walnut flooring in the library and on the family-room ceiling, and suede-wrapped walls in the primary master suite. The library contains a custom Ralph Lauren glass-and-stainless pool table. A glass elevator operates from the subterranean garage level all the way to the rooftop terrace. Entertainment includes a state-of-the-art theater and a 5,100-cubic-foot-infinity swimming pool that visually blends in with the ocean.\n\nJosh Altman and Matt Altman of Douglas Elliman were the brokers for the sale.\n\n2. Brad Pitt & Jennifer Aniston\u2019s newlywed mansion\n\nPrevious -- of -- Next Advertisement\n\nJennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt owned this home from 2001 to 2006, and it is once again on the market \u2014 priced at $44.5 million.\n\nOne of Southern California\u2019s most romantic homes, the French Normandy Revival-style estate includes canyon views, a lighted pool, a stone courtyard, patios, multiple fireplaces, an outdoor living room, and a tennis court. They bought it soon after their Malibu marriage. The supercouple immediately started a three-year renovation, replacing the kitchen floor with heated marble, designing and installing a pub with floors sourced from a 200-year-old French ch\u00e2teau, and adding a private screening room. They also added a tennis court and pavilion with a guest house on the upper level. In January of 2005, their separation was announced, and the home sold in 2006 to a hedge fund executive, who completed the renovation and added features of his own.\n\nThe 11,173-square-foot home is nestled into a bit over an acre on a quiet cul-de-sac with gated entrances on two streets, five bedrooms, and 13 baths between the main house and guest house. The formal rooms are large, with the dining room capable of seating 20 guests.\n\nThe home was originally built in 1934 for actor Fredric March, one of the first movie star mansions in Beverly Hills. March was as big a star in his day. His 52-year career totaled more than hundred films, including classics such as The Best Years of Our Lives and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.\n\nThe listing agent is Susan Smith of Hilton & Hyland, Beverly Hills.\n\n3. Kelly Clarkson\u2019s lake mansion\n\nPrevious -- of -- Next Advertisement\n\nKelly Clarkson made a meteoric rise to stardom after singing and winning the first season of American Idol in 2002. Kelly is now one of America\u2019s favorite entertainers, a judge on The Voice, and host of a new NBC talk show. Ten years after her American Idol win, Kelly bought a Tennessee lake home in Hendersonville, 25 miles up the Cumberland River from Nashville. Her Tennessee mansion is for sale, priced at $7.49 million.\n\nWho needs a vacation when you could live in a home designed to take full advantage of its recreational waterfront? The Clarkson house is positioned on four acres with an adjoining useable two acres owned by the Army Corps of Engineers. With its outward curving shoreline, the property boasts exceptional water views and a two-boat covered boathouse with a lift. There is a long, gated driveway to a car park with center fountain. The grounds are dotted with mature trees, emerald lawn, a sand volleyball court, English-style gardens, a conservatory/greenhouse, and a large pool/spa terrace with a fireplace and a pavilion for outdoor dining \u2014 all accessed via a double-sided-curved staircase descending from the upper terrace.\n\nThe 20,121-square-foot home\u2019s entrance is a grand foyer with soaring double staircases. Included are seven bedrooms, one of which is a large master suite with a seating area in front of a fireplace; 11 baths; a family room; a movie theater; and a children\u2019s room with four built-in bunk beds and a play area. There is a billiard/game room, a gym, a two-level office and an elevator.\n\nSinger, songwriter and talk-show host Kelly Clarkson is now living near the California studio where she is filming The Voice and her weekly talk show, The Kelly Clarkson Show.\n\nJack Miller, the listing broker, is with Parks Real Estate, Nashville.\n\n4. Kaley Cuoco\u2019s Tarzana house\n\nPrevious -- of -- Next Advertisement\n\nSince The Big Bang Theory came to a close in May, Kaley Cuoco and her husband, equestrian Karl Cook, are busy building their dream home in Thousand Oaks, Calif., so she has put her Tarzana-neighborhood home in Los Angeles on the market at $4.895 million. Cuoco bought the house from Lamar Odom and Khloe Kardashian in 2014.\n\nBehind a gated entrance in a small enclave of similarly elegant homes, the 7,977-square-foot house is spread across its three-quarter-acre lot with a large car park in front and a pool with generous patio for entertaining at the rear of the property. The entrance opens into a grand two-story foyer with a curved staircase and starburst chandelier. The home also has a living room with a whimsical swing settee suspended from the ceiling and a contemporary formal dining room. Sized for a large family and guests, the home has six en-suite bedrooms, plus three additional baths. The master has a fireplace, three huge walk-in closets, and French doors that open to the terrace. The kitchen is stocked with high-end appliances and has an island, breakfast area, and bar. It opens to the family room.\n\nThe home is made extremely private by the mature thick hedges and trees that follow the property line from the entrance gate to encircle the lot. The outdoor space is ideal for entertaining, with multiple shaded seating areas, a full-covered outdoor kitchen with bar seating, a pool, a spa, and a fire pit.\n\nCurrently Cuoco has created and is starring in a new HBO Max series, The Flight Attendant, for which she will also act as executive producer. A huge fan favorite for her roles in 8 Simple Rules, Charmed, and, of course, 12 seasons of The Big Bang Theory, Cuoco is following her dreams of becoming a producer.\n\nThe listing agent is Stephanie Vitacco of Keller Williams, Encino-Sherman Oaks.\n\n5. Cheryl Tiegs\u2019s Bel Air beauty\n\nPrevious -- of -- Next Advertisement\n\nCheryl Tiegs was America\u2019s favorite model in the 1970s and \u201980s: She graced the covers of three Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues, four People covers, and three Time covers. Almost as beautiful as Tiegs, her Balinese-style Bel Air home is for sale at $18.5 million.\n\nHer enclave is situated on 1.43 lush acres behind gates that open to a long drive, giving privacy and entrance into something that feels much more like the deep tropics than suburban Los Angeles. Perched on a promontory with 180-degree views, it is awash in palm trees, huge Monstera vines, and tropical flowers. The house itself is a study in bold natural elements, textures, and colors from fabrics, floors, dark-wood beams, glass walls opening to vegetation, and stunning views. The 4,770-square-foot house has five bedrooms, five baths, a kitchen with a butcher-block island, huge open spaces for entertaining both inside and out, a wine cellar, pool, guest house, and three-car garage.\n\nTiegs began modeling when she was 17, appearing on the covers of Glamour, Seventeen and Elle. Her fresh-faced beauty inspired teenaged girls and young women to buy her beauty book, The Way to Natural Beauty, in the hope that they would discover some wonderful secret that would turn them into glamour girls, too. Ahead of her time and a natural entrepreneur, Cheryl was noted for being first at many things: She was the first model to start a signature line of clothing and accessories, which were sold exclusively at Sears. During the 10-year life of that business, almost a billion dollars of her merchandise was sold.\n\nWith her modeling career taking her all over the world, Tiegs was able to pick from her own experiences how she wanted to live. When it came time to buy her own home, she found solace and inspiration in the Balinese way of life and duplicated that environment in her own Southern California home.\n\nJade Mills and Tiffany Mills of Coldwell Banker Global Luxury, Beverly Hills are the listing agents.\n\n6. Jeff Bridges\u2019 Home becomes Oprah Winfrey\u2019s\n\nPrevious -- of -- Next Advertisement\n\nWhen you\u2019re worth almost $3 billion and can easily say, \u201cbeen there, done that, have that,\u201d . . . . what do you do with the rest of the money after the usual investments? For more than a decade, the superwealthy have been parking it in real estate. In fact, they\u2019re buying up a lot of the planet in the form of islands, vast ranches, resorts, and glamorous homes. Yes, Oprah owns at least six homes despite selling her Chicago and Atlanta properties. Lately, her focus has been on the Montecito neighborhood of Santa Barbara, where she purchased actor-friend Jeff Bridges\u2019s home. She owns three in Montecito, including \u201cThe Promised Land\u201d (her 40-acre main home and grounds), now worth about $90 million. She purchased Bridges\u2019s home after waiting for the price to be reduced from the original $7.495 million. She bought it for $6.85 million \u2014 the exact price Bridges and his wife, Susan Geston, paid for it five years ago. Oprah also owns homes in Maui, Hawaii, Orcas Island, Washington, and Telluride, Colorado.\n\nBridges\u2019s 3,517-square-foot, two-bedroom, three-bath Spanish Revival-style home was built in 1919 by architect James Osborn Craig on four acres of gardens. Meticulously cared for and having undergone restorations and updates, it still has its original windows, doors, hardwood floors, and five fireplaces. The kitchen and bathrooms were remodeled to bring them into the 21st century. The kitchen, with its new cabinetry and quartz countertops, adjoins a large family room. High ceilings, expansive windows, and French doors illuminate the home, with every room opening to lush gardens. The master suite features an open-beamed ceiling, large bay window, French doors, and a fireplace.\n\nMontecito is a sought-after neighborhood at the western tip of Santa Barbara with commanding views of the Pacific Ocean. Always lush with large trees and thick with greenery, the neighborhood has recovered from the 2018 Thomas Fire that destroyed several homes. Though Winfrey\u2019s and Bridges\u2019s homes were untouched, Gwyneth Paltrow\u2019s home sustained damage.\n\nJeff Bridges and Susan Geston have been downsizing, with the sale of their 20-acre, Tuscan-style vineyard estate two years ago for $15.9 million. They have also sold land parcels in Malibu this year.\n\nSally Hanseth of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, Montecito, handled the sale for both Bridges and Winfrey.\n\n7. Joe Pesci\u2019s Jersey Shore mansion\n\nPrevious -- of -- Next Advertisement\n\nWhether as Vinny Gambini, Joe Pesci\u2019s character in the Deep South legal comedy My Cousin Vinny, or Nicholas \u201cNicky\u201d Santoro, his mob character with animal killer instincts in Casino, Pesci\u2019s skilled sense of timing brings his characters to life in a way that few actors can match. He announced his retirement from acting in 1999 to return to music, his first love, but fans are thrilled to learn that once again he has teamed up with Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, and Al Pacino for The Irishman, which is streaming on Netflix. In the meantime, Pesci has put his waterfront home up for sale in Lavallette, New Jersey, with his sights focused on returning to the warm California sunshine. It is priced at $6.5 million.\n\nBuilt in 1990, the 7,200-square-foot contemporary with an Art Deco vibe is located in the West Point Island neighborhood, protected from Atlantic storms on Barnegat Bay and only a short bicycle ride to the beach. Bright, airy, and spacious and taking full advantage of the beautiful view, the eight-bedroom, eight-bath home has an open floor plan with large rooms perfect for parties that spill out to the spacious pool terrace at the water\u2019s edge. The gated property is completely fenced with a large motor court that can accommodate multiple guests.\n\nA dramatic free-standing curved staircase sets the stage for the living areas. With white rooms filled with light and the backdrop of the bay through floor-to-ceiling windows, the living room with its two seating areas and pianos hint at musical get-togethers. The large eat-in kitchen with island is perfect for preparing meals for dinner guests in the dining room, which is encircled by glass doors opening to the pool terrace.\n\nThe media room walls are decorated with posters from Pesci\u2019s films, and a barber\u2019s chair occupies one corner, a poignant reminder of his first occupation. The upper level, which can be reached by elevator, contains bedrooms and an office, all with terraces and spectacular views. A downstairs party room next to the pool and spa has its own kitchen for entertaining.\n\nAfter making 34 films, Joe Pesci has cut his second album, Vincent LaGuardia Gambini Sings Just for You, named after his character in My Cousin Vinny. This second album comes 30 years after his first, which was where he started in the entertainment business. He was deeply involved in the music industry until acting in the film The Death Collector, which grabbed the attention of Martin Scorsese.\n\nAn Academy Award-winning actor for his role in Goodfellas, Joe Pesci is selling his Jersey Shore waterfront mansion that has been his home for nearly 30 years.\n\nThe listing agent is Michael Puccio of RE/Max Central, North Manalapan, New Jersey.\n\n8. Suzanne Somers\u2019s Palm Springs hideaway\n\nPrevious -- of -- Next Advertisement\n\nSuzanne Somers has just completed her latest book, A New Way to Age, which be in bookstores in January. A prolific author, she has close to 30 published books \u2014 14 on the New York Times Bestseller list. Still an energetic spitfire at age 73, she shares her secrets of aging well in her writing. Most recently she has been in the news for her nude 73d-birthday photo and interviews about her and husband Alan Hamel\u2019s sex life.\n\nAt her Palm Springs home, Somers has masterfully set the scene for social entertaining with a romantic vibe, while at the same time creating private venues. Almost every square inch of the couple\u2019s hillside oasis shows Somers\u2019s thoughtful and artful touch. On their 73-acre mountainside, there are five buildings to explore with 10,000 square feet of pavilions. The buildings include a romantic stone guest house Albert Frey designed in the 1920s. There is also an amphitheater carved into the mountain that seats 50 under the stars and has a dance floor, a pool, a spa with hiking trails, and a natural waterfall that spills down the hillside.\n\nSet into the side of a craggy mountainside above the valley in Mesa Canyon, the property combines the couple\u2019s love of nature and elegance by bringing out the best in both with their use of contrast. Imagine crystal chandeliers twinkling against natural rock and reclaimed wood \u2014 all in perfect balance. To add even more intrigue, access is via a private funicular, a golf cart, or a hillside of stone steps \u2014 but no cars.\n\nBack on the market after a long hiatus, the home has been reduced to $9.5 million.\n\nThe co-listing agents are Scott Lyle of Douglas Elliman, Palm Springs and Ronald Parks of Pacific Sotheby\u2019s, Palm Springs.\n\n9. Adam Lambert\u2019s Hollywood Hills pad\n\nPrevious -- of -- Next Advertisement\n\nDelivering a blend of contemporary sound and theatrics, Adam Lambert\u2019s style has propelled him from an American Idol superstar singer-songwriter into an international celebrity. The house he bought in 2009 that overlooks the Sunset Strip, the same year he appeared on American Idol, reflects his personality along with his penchant for drama. Now traveling the world almost full time performing in tours and major guest appearances, the Grammy-nominated vocalist has recently put his West Hollywood Hills home on the market for $3.35 million.\n\nEnjoying a view of Los Angeles city lights, the 3,799-square-foot house is surrounded by lush greenery, is very private, and has a disappearing glass wall that opens to a large terrace that includes an outdoor living room, fire pit, and contemporary free-form pool and spa with various depths for lounging, swimming, or sharing a glass of wine in the spa with friends. The master suite has two balconies, a sitting room, a huge dressing room, and green marble bath with a steam shower and soaking tub. Night lighting adds drama to the pool deck and a party atmosphere.\n\nBuilt in 1947, the three-bedroom, four-bath house has undergone impressive updates over time. In addition to formal and family rooms, there is custom wine storage and a separate studio with a private entrance.\n\nHollywood Hills has been a celebrity magnet for as long as the film industry has existed, and Lambert chose his home location well. Neighbors include Leonardo DiCaprio, who bought two extra lots and built a huge basketball court, Keanu Reeves, and Halle Berry.\n\nThough Lambert hit the big time when he appeared on American Idol in 2009, his career began in 2001 as a cruise ship entertainer. From there he performed in musical theater in California and on a European tour of Hair. With his appearances on American Idol, he began generating international recognition and toured with Queen + Adam Lambert, from which he is taking a short break. In May, the group announced the expansion of The Rhapsody Tour to include seven stadium dates in Australia and three in New Zealand. In 2020, Japan and South Korea will be included. Between writing and recording, cutting albums, world tours, and guest appearances filling in all the time spaces, it\u2019s not surprising that he has no time to kick back at his Hollywood Hills home.\n\nThe listing agents are Tomer Fridman and Jonathan Siegfried of Compass, Los Angeles.\n\n10. Regis Philbin\u2019s Connecticut home\n\nPrevious -- of -- Next Advertisement\n\nAt age 88, Regis Philbin has had one of the most successful and long-lived careers as a game-and-talk-show host who, after graduating from his beloved University of Notre Dame and a stint in the Navy, began his television career as an announcer on The Tonight Show, a talk-show in San Diego, and in 1967 as Joey Bishop\u2019s sidekick on The Joey Bishop Show. Regis worked nonstop from coast to coast, including Los Angeles, St Louis, and New York as America\u2019s favorite conversationalist until he retired from Live! With Regis and Kelly in 2011.\n\nHe has resided on the East Coast for decades close to the New York television studios, but recently put his Connecticut home on the market so that he and wife, Joy, can move to California to be closer to their children. The mansion is priced at $4,595,000, 36% less than what he paid for it almost a decade ago.\n\nLocated in Greenwich, the estate sits on 2.59 acres in a lushly green neighborhood among other similar-sized homes. Measuring in at 13,661 square feet, the home has six bedrooms, nine full baths, and three half baths.\n\nIndoor features include the formal living and dining rooms, a large eat-in kitchen, a mahogany-paneled library, a home theater, family room, sunroom, billiards room, gym, and sauna, as well as a wine cellar and tasting room that includes a full bar. There are a total of seven fireplaces.\n\nOutside, the property offers expansive manicured lawns and mature trees, shrubs, and gardens; terraces; a swimming pool, a fountain; spa; and tennis courts. The gated drive ends at garages that can house five cars.\n\nThe listing agent is Joseph Barbieri of Sotheby\u2019s International Realty-Greenwich Brokerage.\n\nPhilbin was host of the popular Who Wants to be a Millionaire, Million Dollar Password, and was a judge on the first season of America\u2019s Got Talent. He hosted the daytime talk show Live! With Regis and Kathie Lee and later with Kelly Ripa for almost 28 years. 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