In 2016, Jennifer Lopez was a single woman at a great moment in her career. She dated for a few months but broke up with dancer Casper Smart shortly after. She had just recorded the film Obsesión, was the producer of one series and the star of another, and a judge for another season of the music competition American Idol. He designed shoes. He was a leading voice against Donald Trump. She had separated from Marc Anthony, the father of her children, five years earlier (in fact, he had married and separated again), and they maintained a cordial relationship. And with money in his pocket, he decided to buy a house in the hills of Los Angeles. Nothing less than in the luxurious Bel-Air, exclusivity within exclusivity. An area full of villas surrounded by trees where each house is quiet and isolated. A new home for a new life that cost him $28 million. A home that is no longer a home: his life is different, he moved and sold it. For no less than 34 million dollars, about 32 million euros.
In 2023, Lopez no longer lives in that Bel-Air home. Since the beginning of 2017, the artist had a relationship with the athlete Alex Rodríguez, which ended when she met again in 2021 with Ben Affleck, with whom she had dated 20 years earlier. They married in the summer of 2022 and moved in together. Therefore, their respective houses were vacant and they decided to sell them. Affleck got rid of him last August for 30 million. In Lopez’s case, he put it up for sale in February of this year for 42.5 million dollars (just over 40 million euros), then he reduced it to 40 million and now he has just gotten rid of it with 32,400 squares – A very large space for an area like Bel-Air – 1,300 square meters of built-up area, nine bedrooms, twelve and a half bathrooms, a 30-person cinema, a theater with seating for more than 100 spectators and a private lake with a sandy beach.
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Exterior view and one of the pools of Jennifer Lopez’s home in Bel Air.Carlwood Estates
It is unknown who bought the luxurious and spacious building. Carolwood Estates, the agency that handled the transaction, speaks of “a mystery buyer.” Lopez, in turn, bought it in 2016 from the couple of actress Sela Ward (House, CSI: New York) and businessman Howard Sherman. The house was built in 1940 based on a design by the architect Samuel Marx. Since then, however, several renovations have been carried out that have given it a touch of the French countryside and in which wood and stone have been the protagonists. Arranged on different levels, it has a large living room with windows overlooking the trees and a spiral staircase, a wood-paneled library, a huge kitchen with two marble islands, a dozen fireplaces inside and out, a living room with billiards and games bar counter and a bar counter large, fully equipped gym.
One of the rooms in Jennifer López’s house in Bel Air. Carlwood Estates
The three-story home opens to a pool (heated) and hot tub and features various fountains and ponds scattered throughout the property. The site also features a guest house and a large garage for 30 vehicles, as well as a pavilion with a full kitchen, an amphitheater with seating for more than 100 guests, a pagoda with campfire areas, and the lake with a beach and showers. .
Exterior view of Jennifer Lopez’s home in Bel Air.Carlwood Estates
A few months ago, Affleck and Lopez moved into a 12-bedroom, 24-bathroom mansion in Beverly Hills that they bought for around $60 million (€57 million). The house cost 135 million and was considered the most expensive in all of Los Angeles County, but it achieved an impressive price drop. It also features a movie theater, a sauna, a massage room, a wine cellar and a whiskey room, indoor basketball and picketball courts, a gym, a two-bedroom guest house, and a 150-foot-long outdoor pool, said to be the largest in Beverly Hills, according to Beverly Hills. several real estate portals.
One of the rooms in Jennifer Lopez’s house in Bel Air.Carlwood Estates
Jennifer Lopez bought her first home in the Hollywood Hills in 2000 for just over $4 million and sold it to a nightclub owner for more than $12.5 million in 2004, shortly after marrying Marc Anthony in her gardens. Then it was bought back by fellow singer Gwen Stefani. In addition, Lopez also owns a house in Miami, which he bought in 2002, and together with Anthony he bought another on Long Island, near New York. In 2014, the singer bought a penthouse in Manhattan, New York, overlooking Madison Square Park for $20 million. She wanted to sell it in 2017, after her split from Alex Rodríguez, but ended up taking it back from the real estate market. In fact, they used it to buy another apartment in New York in 2016, which they sold in less than a year. They also shared a home in Malibu, which they sold in 2020, just a year after purchasing it; and a 10-bedroom home on Star Island in Miami.