By James McClain | Grime
In case you weren’t already conscious, issues are apparently very severe between Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez. Critical to the tune of about $55 million, the approximate quantity that the couple has reportedly agreed to pay for a serious property in prime Bel Air, the place the now-reunited Bennifer can have loads of room for his or her blended household and them some. TMZ broke the story — whereas the deal has not but closed and continues to be contingent on inspections, the A-listers are targeted on one explicit property presently provided at $65 million.
Avid actual property watchers is perhaps stunned in regards to the buy, particularly on condition that Lopez already owns a luxurious Bel Air property that she purchased for $28 million from actress Sela Ward just a few years in the past. Affleck, for his half, makes do with a $19 million mansion on the Pacific Palisades Riviera. However the couple is supposedly in search of a recent residential begin; assuming this deal goes by, they might quickly promote their present L.A. houses.
As for the large Bel Air property in query, the 1.2-acre sprawler lies nearly immediately throughout the road from the primary entrance to the hoity-toity Bel Air Nation Membership. The home itself was constructed within the Thirties and designed by cherished architect Paul Williams, although it’s clearly undergone some massive modifications within the nearly 9 many years since then.
The property is presently owned by hedge fund supervisor Todd Lemkin and his longtime spouse Kasey, who purchased the place for $27.6 million in 2016. On the time of their buy, the once-grand property had been expanded and renovated by earlier homeowners right into a not-particularly-stylish bloated beast of a home.
However the Lemkins subsequently gave the property a full-scale renovation of their very own that doubtless price many tens of millions, remodeling the ungainly mammoth of a home into a trendy conventional with elegant interiors and spectacular views sweeping over the Century Metropolis skyline. In all, there are actually 10 bedrooms and 17 bogs in practically 20,000 sq. ft of dwelling area.
Listings held by Drew Fenton and Linda Could of Hilton & Hyland present that the property additionally comprises grandly-scaled rooms that open to an enormous yard, plus a separate guesthouse. In all, there are a complete of not one or two however 4 kitchens on the premises (a essential kitchen and catering kitchen in the primary home, a 3rd kitchen within the guesthouse, and a full outside kitchen/BBQ middle within the yard.)
Different highlights of the three-level residence embody a movie show, wine cellar and wood-paneled workplace, together with an upstairs grasp retreat boasting twin closets and a single lavatory swaddled in a very glam species of marble. Downstairs, a full basement stage features a media room, health club and a non-public “safety suite” for a full-time bodyguard. Out again, the infinity-edged pool is joined by a number of loggias, fire-pits, a placing inexperienced and thoroughly manicured gardens.
In addition to their present Los Angeles houses, Affleck and Lopez have quite a lot of different properties of their respective portfolios. Affleck nonetheless owns a gracious property in Georgia, whereas Lopez holds title to a $20 million New York Metropolis rental and a mansion within the Hamptons. She’s additionally received a comparatively humble dwelling in L.A.’s Encino neighborhood, acquired a pair years in the past.
As for the Lemkins, the couple has reportedly relocated from Bel Air to Dallas, and so they additionally nonetheless preserve a $23 million trip retreat in Aspen.