Posted Sep 5th 2008 5:29PM by TMZ Staff
As if life couldn't get any better for Tom Brady being a hot, rich NFL quarterback with a supermodel girlfriend -- now it turns out the football star just made a killing in real estate. Donald Trump, we've found your apprentice.
In 2006, Brady bought a Boston building and began renovating and converting it into four condos. According to the Boston Globe, the New England Patriot kept the top floor for himself and recently sold the other three to a South American businessman for $7.95 million -- about $1.7 million more than he paid for the entire building. Housing crisis? What national housing crisis?!
Besides the Boston property, Brady recently purchased a plot of dirt in L.A. for $11 million and put his NYC pad on the market for $19 million. Comparatively, the Cowboys' quarterback Tony Romo is living on skid row, purchasing a home in Dallas for under $700K and having girlfriend Jessica Simpson decorate it. Oh, the humanity.
Filed under: Celebrity Pay Dirt, Talk Sports
Posted Sep 5th 2008 2:53PM by TMZ Staff
Dane Cook has apparently decided renting apartments is for people who don't make zillions and have a dog that craps in common areas.
After losing an eviction case because a jury decided Dane's dog was pooping with aplomb in the common areas, Dane dropped a pile on a Hollywood Hills mansion -- $7,078,412 to be specific.
Now Beast the pinscher can pinch a loaf wherever he feels like it, including on the Travertine Navona floors!
Filed under: Celebrity Pay Dirt
Posted Aug 30th 2008 9:51PM by TMZ Staff
We've confirmed the guy who went into escrow to buy Ed McMahon's house has pulled out of the deal.
We're told the buyer never came up with any cash ... which means the whole thing sounds phony. The escrow was opened without a deposit, but the buyer never put his money where his mouth was.
So that leaves Ed with no place to live if the house does go into foreclosure ... which again leads to the doorstep of Donald Trump. Trump has said he'd step in again and buy the house and lease it back to Ed for life. Our sources say Donald has offered a low ball offer already, but that's it.
We're told Trump has had discussions with Ed's realtor, Alex Davis, since the deal fell apart last Thursday. Will Donald save the day or is this a publicity stunt? We know the stumbling block with Trump is price -- he hasn't offered what Ed wants/needs to get the monkeys off his back.
Filed under: Celebrity Pay Dirt
Posted Aug 30th 2008 1:10PM by TMZ Staff
Is that "Frasier" money not enough?
Already making some serious TV syndication coin, Kelsey Grammer stands to make a cool $6 mil off a house he just bought a year ago!
According to the LA Times, Grammer has listed an English Country-style estate in Holmby Hills for $19.9 million. He bought the house last summer for $13.7 mil.
You would think his wife Camille's notorious IBS would drive the price down, not up. To each their own.
Filed under: Celebrity Pay Dirt
Posted Aug 14th 2008 2:51PM by TMZ Staff
Sean Penn and wife Robin Wright Penn have put their big-time Marin County, Calif. home up for sale. Anyone got a spare $15 mil lying around??
The Penns bought the 10,000 square foot mega-manse for a steal in '96 -- paying just $2.1 million for it. Then they spent two years fixing up the joint, and turned the 1933 Spanish-style home into a serious crib.
The two-story house has five bedrooms, a home office, a nanny suite, a home gym and a three-car garage -- plus a two bedroom guest house that has its own two-car garage. It also has all the standard celebrity home accouterments: pool, tennis court, big lawn and gardens and a dog run.
Sean and Robin filed, then unfiled, for divorce last year. Maybe they're moving in with Josh.
Filed under: Celebrity Pay Dirt
Posted Aug 12th 2008 2:57PM by TMZ Staff
America's favorite Evangelical Christian singing dandy trio, The Jonas Brothers, just bought this $2.9 million, 7,360 square foot, six bedroom, six bath mansion in a Dallas gated community.
Poor Ed could use a spare room.
Filed under: Paparazzi Photo, Music, Celebrity Pay Dirt
Posted Jul 23rd 2008 3:30PM by TMZ Staff
When you have seven children from five different women you need a big house.
Lucky for Rod Stewart, his 18,700 square foot Beverly Hills estate has 8 bedrooms and 13 bathrooms on 4 acres of land-- enough space for everyone to play nice.
The place is huge, but to put it in perspective, Candy Spelling's new apartment is smaller by about 2,000 square feet. Her APARTMENT!
Filed under: Paparazzi Photo, Celebrity Pay Dirt
Posted Jul 22nd 2008 2:30PM by TMZ Staff
Even Candy Spelling is feeling the housing crunch -- she's scaling back from the infamous Spelling mansion to a paltry 16,500 square foot penthouse.
Spelling just dropped $47 million (!!!) of her late husband's money on a two-floor condo that is a third of the size of her 56,500 square foot Holmby Hills estate. The apartment is located on the 41st and 42nd floors of the brand new Century building and won't be ready until 2009 -- around the time Tori gives birth to her fifth rugrat.
Candy is giving up her notorious gift wrapping room, 3,500 square foot closet and bowling alley and making do with the condo's two fireplaces, dining room for 25, staff quarters, massage room, rose garden and private swimming pool. These are tough times, people!
Filed under: Celebrity Pay Dirt, Nurse!
Posted Jun 25th 2008 9:49AM by TMZ Staff
At least one former "American Idol" isn't worried about the housing crisis -- Kelly Clarkson just bought herself a new crib, y'all!
The OG "Idol" purchased this really nice -- but modest for a Grammy-winning pop star -- $1.5 million home in Nashville.
Maybe keeping it simple will be keeping Kelly from having to perform at local balloon festivals, housing developments or outlet malls in the future!
Filed under: Music, Celebrity Pay Dirt
Posted Jun 20th 2008 3:30PM by TMZ Staff
Celebs sure know how to live it up in style. Check out some big pimpin' celebrity homes.
Filed under: Celebrity Pay Dirt
Posted Jun 17th 2008 1:58PM by TMZ Staff
She's comin' y'all! The Commish in Britney Spears' conservatorship case has approved her request to sell her house.
As TMZ first reported yesterday, Britney has been zeroing in on palatial pad in Calabasas, Calif.
At a hearing today in Los Angeles County Superior Court, the Commish has given her the green light to put her Beverly Hills house on the market and get the hell out.
Story developing ...
Filed under: Britney Spears, Celebrity Pay Dirt
Posted Jun 16th 2008 3:20PM by TMZ Staff
TMZ has learned Britney Spears may be finally moving out of her place in the Hollywood Hills -- to become a full-fledged California Valley girl. Like, totally, like, awesome, y'all!
We're told Brit Brit is "looking like crazy" to buy a house in a very exclusive part of Calabasas, located in the San Fernando Valley. We hear Brit's heart is set on a place in an extremely well-protected private community, home to rocker Travis Barker among a slew of other famous people. In fact, there are two sets of guard gates keeping Brit's potential new home from the common people.
Sources say Brit's been hanging out in the community gym lately, however, we're told no official deal on the mansion has been made yet.
And how's this for mom of the year -- the new pad would be closer (and certainly more accessible) to K-Fed and the kids in Tarzana, which is just a quick jaunt down the 101 Freeway ... depending on traffic.
Filed under: Britney Spears, Celebrity Pay Dirt
Posted Jun 2nd 2008 12:44PM by TMZ Staff
A-list unmarried pregnant teen supercouple Jamie Lynn Spears and Casey Aldridge have gone and bought themselves a new home -- and it don't have wheels!
The new crib is located near Jamie's proud mama Lynn in Kentwood and has plenty of room for the growing fam to ride around in their ATVs.
Filed under: Paparazzi Photo, Britney Spears, Celebrity Pay Dirt
Posted May 12th 2008 4:11PM by TMZ Staff
Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch debt has been bought out just days before the property was to go on the auction block. Who's bad?
TMZ has obtained the deed with the lucky new owners - 1224 LLC. The debt is said to be around $23 million - plus an additional few hundred for llama food.
For the record, Jackson is still the official owner of Neverland Ranch, he just signs his mortgage payments over to someone else now.
Filed under: Celebrity Pay Dirt
Posted Mar 30th 2008 5:00AM by TMZ Staff
Author Tom Clancy's home suffered $10,000 worth of damage after a fire burned up a deck at his Maryland home. Don't worry, the residual check from the next re-run of "Patriot Games" should cover it.
Clancy was home at the time, but not injured in the blaze, a Maryland fire marshal spokesman said. It took 50 firefighters about 10 minutes to control the fire.
International espionage is not suspected.
Filed under: Celebrity Pay Dirt
