Incredibly Lavish Celebrity Homes

Celebrity mansions have long been a fascination for tabloids and fans alike to gawk over. We love to see the luxurious lifestyles of people we look up to, dreaming that one day, we too can live so elegantly.

Most interestingly, stars choose a wide variety of locations and styles of homes to live in, and each one somehow seems to embody their personality perfectly. Have a look at these fascinating homes owned by A-list celebs!

Leave it Taylor to purchase such a classically beautiful beach house mansion in Rhode Island. She bought the 11,000-square-feet dwelling for around $17 million. With seven bedrooms and nine bathrooms, the home was built in 1930. It sits on five acres and offers a view of more than 700 feet of beachfront atop “the highest point in Watch Hill,” making this summer home the perfect getaway for the wealthy pop star.

Rapper Lil Wayne’s $11.6 million Miami perch has nine bedrooms in total, and the master bedroom is over 3,000 square feet, which alone is larger than the average house! The house is a total of 15,000 square feet, and it even contains a three-bedroom guesthouse with a glass elevator! A big perk is the giant skate park on the roof.

Dubbed by Oprah “The Promised Land,” after the famous Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said “we as a people will make it to the Promised Land,” Winfrey’s 42-acre estate was purchased for a whopping $52 million, though it’s now worth somewhere around $88 million. Built in 1959, it has six bedrooms, 14 bathrooms, ten fireplaces, a gourmet kitchen, two theaters, a wine cellar, a barn, ponds and orchards, a tennis court, a man-made lake stocked with fish, an outdoor entertainment area, and a giant guesthouse with a pool. Do you think she’s missing anything?

J-Lo’s sprawling manse in the Hamptons is worth $18 million. It has seven different fireplaces, two of which are outdoors. It also comes with a library cloaked in white oak paneling, a media room, multiple walk-in closets, and bathrooms with heated marble floors. Talk about luxury!

Murphy’s prestigious Bubble Hill dwelling in Englewood is a total of 25,000 square feet planted on five acres. It boasts a music studio, an indoor bowling alley, both an indoor and outdoor pool, and a theater within its 32 rooms. With seven bedrooms and 13 bathrooms, Eddie and his family shouldn’t need to leave the house very often at all!

It’s to be expected that one of the richest (and smartest) men in the world would own a $123 million 66,000-square-feet smart home mansion. Named Xanadu 2.0 after Citizen Kane’s Charles Foster Kane, Bill Gates’ home has artwork on the walls that can be changed with just the touch of a button.

Will and Jada’s giant estate is worth nearly $20 million, and is nestled atop a whopping 150 acres. It boasts full-sized basketball and tennis courts, a sand volleyball court, batting cages, a guest house, horse facilities, a private lake, a gym, a meditation room, and a state-of-the-art music studio.

Lady Gaga’s lavish mansion is 10,000 square feet. The singer purchased the place for an easy $23 milion. The unique feature of this particular home is its underground “batcave” in which a vintage two-lane bowling alley lives for Gaga’s leisure. The house also features an 800-bottle wine cellar, a home theater, a game room, a guest house, and an eight-stall barn with a riding area.

Halle purchased this extravagant beach house for $8 million in 2004. It has more than 5,000 square feet and you can see a magnificent view of the ocean from nearly every room. It also has a luxury outdoor Jacuzzi spa facing the ocean.

For $9.5 million, Julia Roberts bought this 6,000-square-feet home with her husband after they outfitted it with numerous solar panels on the roof and abundant energy-saving appliances. After they made their eco-friendly adjustments to the mansion, it amounted to about $20 million for the couple in total. It features five bedrooms and six bathrooms.

Kimye bought this massive mansion for around $11 million, but they renovated almost the entire building. We don’t know much about the inside of the house, but we do know that before the renovation it contained eight bedrooms and 10 bathrooms. Since its makeover, Kimye have now moved into an even bigger mansion in Hidden Hills, which they purchased for a cool $20 million.

Matt Damon’s large mansion boasts 35-feet-high ceilings, and has been described as the “best house in the Pacific Palisades.” He spent somewhere around $15 million on the whole thing, which features seven bedrooms, 10 bathrooms, and a five-car garage.

Tiger Woods’ $54 million Florida mansion is set on ten acres of land and includes his own private golf course, of course. Not much is known about the interior of the home, but we do know that it has several pools, tennis courts, a fitness center, and an oxygen room. Looks like his divorce wasn’t TOO disruptive to his lifestyle…

Although Rihanna owns more than one luxurious abode, we’ve decided to feature her Barbados manse for this list. She was born and raised in Barbados, and she purchased this home for $21.8 million. It’s actually a 10,000-square-feet condo within the famous One Sandy Lane resort. Although she lives there, the resort aims to make its condos function like a boutique hotel, with spot-on service at all times.

Brit’s Westlake Village property is set across nearly 21 acres, and the house is 12,464 square feet. Built in 2000, it has a library, an elevator, and a game room. It also features a separate pool house with its own kitchen and bathroom, a 3,500-bottle wine cellar, a tennis court, a pool, a spa, an orchard, and a three-hole golf course. She got all this luxury for only $7.4 million!

Simon Cowell has called this $25 million Beverly Hills mansion nothing short of his “dream home.” The music mogul purchased the lot for only $8 million, then had the original house demolished in order to construct this beautiful dwelling pictured here. The mansion is 11,550 square feet, and features six bedrooms, six bathrooms, a gym, a luxury spa complete with a sauna, a lap pool, a guest house, a high-tech media theater and a solarium. He also has a $1 million security system that reportedly utilizes retina and fingerprint scans for authorization.

This colossal estate is 50,000 square feet, contains 52 rooms, and rests on 17 acres of land. Among its amenities are nine kitchens, a basketball court, 50 Cent’s own personal nightclub (in-house) which includes stripper poles, 21 bedrooms, 24 bathrooms, a movie theater, and a swimming pool in a grotto.

Howard Stern purchased this palace in Palm Beach for a grand $52 million. It boasts 12.5 bathrooms and five bedrooms spread out over 19,000 square feet on the waterfront.

Ryan Seacrest purchased this home on a private street in Beverly Hills for $49 million from none other than Ellen Degeneres. Situated on just over three acres, the main house is 9,200 square feet. The property also includes nine bedrooms, two guesthouses, a separate three-bedroom house, and a swimming pool and large pond.

Although he no longer lives there, basketball star Michael Jordan’s home in Illinois was quite the display. The estate cost him around $29 million, and contains nine bedrooms and 19 bathrooms. Set on 7.4 acres, it also boasts an NBA regulation basketball court, a tennis court, a putting green, a theater room, a fully-stocked gym, a wine cellar, and an outdoor infinity pool.

This actor-turned-politician certainly reaped the benefits of his career in the entertainment industry, as evidenced by his $23.5 million mansion in California. At 14,500 square feet, Arnold’s dwelling is definitely one of the largest and most expensive celebrity homes in the world.

The success of Jerry’s popular sitcom show Seinfeld undoubtedly contributed to the purchase of this elegant $32 million house in the Hamptons. The house is 18,000 square feet, and the property even contains its own baseball field (Jerry Seinfeld has been known as a baseball lover).

Musician Billy Joel’s Miami Beach estate cost him a whopping $35 million. It’s actually located on the exclusive La Gorce Island within Miami, and measures up to 303,310 square feet. It contains its own pier, boat slip, pool, outdoor kitchen, and patio.

Spielberg is rather well-known for wanting to keep his private matters private, so we don’t know much about the inner features of his epic 145,000-square-feet estate in the Pacific Palisades. It’s estimated to be worth around $35 million. Spielberg has said that his favorite room in the house is the Hobbit-themed room, which includes a retractable TV and a hobbit-like fireplace, because he wanted the TV room (in which he spends most of his life) to “have a Hobbit feel.”

Tom Brady’s castle-like manor in Los Angeles weighs in at $20 million. The mansion itself is 22,000 square feet, and it sports an enormous resort-style swimming pool, eight bedrooms, a six-car garage, and of course a luxury home gym so that the quarterback and his supermodel wife Gisele Bündchen can stay in prime shape.

Rob Lowe’s 20-room Santa Barbara manse was purchased for a majestic $42 million. It boasts a game room, a custom gym, multiple master suites, and a resort-style pool, among other features.

Gorgeous supermodel Christie Brinkley owns probably the closest thing you can find to a castle in Long Island, New York. At $30 million, this fortress sports 11 bedrooms, nine bathrooms, and an observation deck 50 feet high.

The Manor, home of the late TV producer Aaron Spelling, is the largest home in Los Angeles County. Containing 123 rooms total over 56,000 square feet, it far exceeds the description of “lavish.” Valued at somewhere around $200 million, within the expansive mansion lie several rooms with very specific functions. There are three separate rooms whose sole purpose is for wrapping presents, and one room exclusively for cutting flowers. Combine that with four two-car garages, a bowling alley, a parking lot that accommodates 100 vehicles and 16 carports, and a screening room, and you’ve got yourself the definition of the lap of luxury!

Gwyneth Paltrow and hubby Chris Martin purchased this massive home in LA’s Brentwood neighborhood for a cool $10.45 million in 2012. It boasts six bedrooms, eight bathrooms, and a cozy little guest cottage on the property.