Homes of Celebrity Couples

Celebrity couples are rich, famous, successful, beautiful, and in love. They also live in ridiculously luxurious and opulent multi-million-dollar homes, often with breathtaking views.

Don’t you just hate them, yet at the same time also want to examine every detail of their homes? What does $45,000 monthly rent get you? What type of living space does $16 million buy in New York City real estate?

Click ahead to find how the other half (and their other halves) live.

By Colleen Kane
Posted 26 Jan 2011

Location: Indian Creek Village, Florida
Sale price: $9,300,000

This palatial two-story Mediterranean-style concrete waterfront property, built in 1991, was the onetime residence of Beyonce and Jay-Z. It’s 7,888 square feet with 7 bedrooms, 8 full and two partial baths, a tile roof, and a pool. It’s situated on an exclusive golf and residential island located between Bal Harbor and Miami Beach.

Indian Creek Island is one of the wealthiest communities in America and is favored by celebrities, due in no small part to its dedicated police department including a round-the-clock marine patrol unit. Among Ms. B and Jay-Z’s current and former island neighbors are Julio Iglesias and his son Enrique, model Adriana Lima, and former Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula.

Location: Los Angeles, California
Selling Price: $14,200,000

Heidi Klum and Seal obtained this foreclosure in the Brentwood Country Estates community following a bidding war last year, reportedly paying significantly more than the $13,400,000 asking price.

The 12,300 square foot home has 9 bedrooms and 7 baths and is situated on 8.52 acres—plenty of room for the model/“Project Runway” hostess, the singer, and their four children, who also have a playhouse, because their parents are Heidi Klum and Seal.

Although it’s a newer construction (circa 1999), it has a distinct, ivy-covered Old World feel: one antique feature is a 1603 Scottish fireplace mantle, a formal dining room imported from the Parisian Pierre Hotel, and elsewhere dark wood paneling in a classic-style library featuring a fireplace said to be taken from Napoleon’s farmhouse, and out back lovely Italian gardens and reflecting pools offer mountain and valley views. Among their fortunate neighbors are other famous couples, governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and journalist Maria Shriver, as well as model Gisele Bundchen and football player Tom Brady.

Location: Thousand Oaks, California
Asking price: $25,000,000

Tennis star Pete Sampras his actress wife, Bridgette Wilson Sampras (“Billy Madison,” “I Know What You Did Last Summer”) are selling their 7-bedroom, 10-bath, 4-5 car garage contemporary home in a secure Westlake Village gated community.

Naturally, the house has a tennis court, as well as a pool and spa, and plenty of other outdoor space to spare, as the hilltop property is set on 20.6 acres with mountain and lake views. The home’s spacious gym has views, the bathtub has views, the expansive terrace has views. You get the picture—and the picture contains mountains or a lake.

Location: Los Angeles, California
Previous Rental Price: $18,500
Estimated Worth: $3,750,000

This ivy-covered 4-bedroom, 6-bath circa-1938 charmer is nestled behind a gated privacy wall in the coveted Brentwood section of L.A. The home is so appealing that it already had at least one famous resident, Sally Field, before Naomi Watts moved in following her split from Heath Ledger. Naomi and her partner Liev Schreiber resided here with their two children before making off for the east coast to live in New York City.

The house is now off the market, but just to offer a few tidbits to appease the lookie-loos, it’s got open, exposed-beam ceilings, a modern kitchen with dark wood cabinetry, and a private, sloping yard with a pool and a canyon view.

Location: Los Angeles, California
Asking Price: $3,150,000

Newlywed actors Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem have just welcomed their first child into the world, so perhaps Penelope’s 3-bedroom, 4-bath home in the Hollywood Hills just wasn’t big enough for their newly expanded family.

However, the single-story modern home (built in 1956) is much more spacious inside than it appears from the privacy-protecting exterior. The yard is modest in size, but the home is optimized for enjoying the outdoors, with a pool and spa and many glass doors opening out to the patio terrace area.

Location: New York, New York
Rent: $45,000

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban’s high-floor apartment in the West Village’s Richard Meier building offers stunning views of the Hudson. But according to Curbed, those views are no longer as unhindered as they used to be due to the construction of 165 Charles Street tower, so Ms. Kidman and her musical husband moved to a penthouse in an 11th Avenue starchitect-designed building closer to the river, where no more towers can spring up in her view.

Still, the space they left behind isn’t too shabby: the 3 bedroom, 3-1/2 bath residence features high ceilings, wide-plank walnut flooring, a chef’s kitchen, walk-in closets, two guest bedrooms with en suite bathrooms, and a south-facing terrace offering views of the Statue of Liberty and Jersey City across the river.

Location: New York, New York
Price: $16,000,000

Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart recently put their penthouse apartment in Chelsea’s City Prairie building on the market. The space is 5500 square foot with 4 bedrooms and 4.5 baths. Each of the 11 floors of the former Barney’s warehouse and office has been converted into a full-floor loft apartment.

Features include anigre wood cabinetry, hardwood floors and poured concrete radiant heat floors, master bedroom suite with dressing room and bath, a library, home office, gym, laundry room, private terrace with views of Manhattan and the Hudson, and a wood-burning fireplace.

Location: Los Angeles, California
Rent: $10,000
Previous Asking Price: $2,900,000

This 1959 home, with its clean and classic midcentury modern design, sits on a stately perch atop Laurel Canyon, never betraying that one of the owners is known for parading around in a neon green monokini thong bathing suit in “Borat.”

Sascha Baron Cohen and his actress wife Isla Fisher (“Wedding Crashers,” “Confessions of a Shopaholic”) listed their Los Angeles home last summer, but it’s currently off the market. Built in 1959, the house has just over a quarter acre with a lagoon-style pool and both mountain and canyon views, including the 52-acre Woodrow Wilson Preserve.

Location: Middletown, New Jersey
Price: $2,300,000

Broadcast journalist Connie Chung and talk-show host Maury Povich put their 4-bedroom, 4-bath Greek Revival manor house on the market, and the buyer gets two houses for the $2.3 million price tag, as it comes with a 4-bedroom guest house.

Built in 1832, it’s also nominated for the National Registry of Historic Places—we can envision the plaque: “Maury and Connie slept here.” Also on the premises: the original barn with hay loft, a putting green, a workshop, two live-in cabanas, a pool and garages for six cars.

Location: Toluca Lake, California
Price: $7,000,000

Newlywed pop singer/ actress Hilary Duff and her hockey player husband Mike Comrie listed their Toluca Lake home for $7,000,000 in September. They’ve thrown in an eight-seat electric boat to sweeten the deal, which will come in handy because the property is located on Toluca Lake.

The 1951 Mediterranean style home features 6 bedrooms, 6-1/2 baths, a dark-wood paneled and stainless steel kitchen with skylight, plenty of terrace space with views, a pool and an outdoor fireplace.