Homes Of The World's Most Powerful Celebrities

Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen

Earlier this year the NFL quarterback and his supermodel wife moved into a 22,000-square foot custom-built manse in the Brentwood neighborhood of LA. The new spread boasts eight bedrooms, a six-car garage, a lagoon-shaped swimming pool, an elevator, a weight room and a wine cellar. Brady also recently unloaded his NYC Time Warner Center penthouse (pictured in previous slide) for $17.5 million to Green Mountain Coffee billionaire Robert Stiller and has his Boston, Mass. penthouse listed for $10.5 million as well.

Homes Of The World's Most Powerful Celebrities -- Forbes

There’s a certain kind of luxury real estate in Los Angeles that passes from celebrity to celebrity. Take the Beverly Hills estate that Ryan Seacrest is in escrow to buy for $37 million from Ellen DeGeneres and her wife, Portia de Rossi. The gated compound in Coldwater Canyon includes a 9,200-square-foot main house, plus three guest houses, a swimming pool and koi ponds. Perhaps its most valuable amenity: privacy.

L.A. has ordinances that prevent new construction of high walls and hedges, which means there’s a limited inventory of homes that can keep prying eyes at a distance. The glitterati tend to trade them among one another.

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My Comment: This story was posted by Forbes last year, but it is still apllicable today. Bottom line .... celebrities do know how to live well.