No Laughing Matter! Ellen DeGeneres Sells Cliffside L.A. Megamansion for $96M—and Makes a Huge Profit

Ellen DeGeneres has just sold off one of her most impressive Los Angeles homes for a staggering $96 million—earning herself a hefty $26 million profit on the price she paid for the megamansion just two years ago. The 66-year-old comedian purchased the sprawling Carpinteria estate in two parts back in 2022. First, she and wife Portia de
No Laughing Matter! Ellen DeGeneres Sells Cliffside L.A. Megamansion for $96M—and Makes a Huge Profit

Ellen DeGeneres has just sold off one of her most impressive Los Angeles homes for a staggering $96 million—earning herself a hefty $26 million profit on the price she paid for the megamansion just two years ago.

The 66-year-old comedian purchased the sprawling Carpinteria estate in two parts back in 2022.

First, she and wife Portia de Rossi, 51, snapped up the main property—a five-bedroom, eight-bathroom Tuscan-style mansion that sits on a 3.44-acre plot—for $41.7 million.

They then paid $28.2 million for a vacant 6.58-acre plot of land that sits alongside the home in order to create a jaw-dropping 10-acre estate atop a bluff overlooking the ocean, according to the New York Post.

At the time, the sale was reported to have been the most expensive real estate deal ever closed in Santa Barbara County.

Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen DeGeneres has just sold a California megamansion for $96 million.

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The 66-year-old comedian purchased the sprawling Carpinteria estate in two parts back in 2022.

(Realtor.com)

Images shared exclusively with the Wall Street Journal reveal the home’s stunning interiors, including a beautifully decorated open-plan kitchen and living area, high ceilings, exposed wooden beams, and red brick accents.

The sale comes just months after DeGeneres and de Rossi offloaded another staggering piece of real estate: an enormous mansion in nearby Montecito, where the comedian lived within a stone’s throw of her close friends Meghan Markle and Prince Harry.

DeGeneres offloaded that property for a relatively paltry $32 million in February of this year. It had been listed for sale in October 2023 for $46.5 million.

The home was, according to multiple reports, snapped up by billionaire mining tycoon Robert Friedland, the same man who is understood to be behind the purchase of DeGeneres’ Carpinteria property, according to the Journal.

Over the years, DeGeneres and de Rossi have earned themselves quite a reputation as burgeoning real estate moguls, amassing an incredibly enviable property portfolio in California and beyond. The couple have flipped and sold many of the homes for an awe-inspiring profit.

Ellen DeGeneres sold another Montecito home earlier this year
In February, DeGeneres sold this Montecito mansion for $32 million.

(Realtor.com)

In 2011, the comedian confessed that she had quickly fallen in love with buying real estate when she began making her first real money from her on-screen career, a passion that largely stemmed from her childhood dream of one day owning a home of her own.

“We never had a house when I was growing up,” she told Architectural Digest at the time. “We always rented. But my father would dream, and we used to look at houses all the time. I’d pick out which bedroom would be mine and get all excited.

“The first thing I did when I made money was buy a house. And then…” she went on, prompting her wife to jump in and quip: “Another one. And another one and another one and another one.”

Having called it quits on her popular daytime show in 2022, DeGeneres has certainly had more time on her hands to devote to flipping properties.

DeGeneres, who has an estimated net worth of $380 million, is reported to have purchased four properties and sold off three in 2022 alone.

What’s more, she has also made a move into mortgage loans, offering up money to family members to help them climb the property ladder.

Instead of letting her siblings rely on traditional lenders, DeGeneres helped her brother, Vance DeGeneres, and his wife, Joanna, purchase a $1,439,000 house in Sherman Oaks. She also extended a similar helping hand to de Rossi‘s sibling Michael Rogers and his wife, Casey, securing a loan for their $4.9 million home in Santa Barbara.

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