A Santa Barbara bargain? Ellen DeGeneres and Portia di Rossi slash the asking price of their Tuscan-style California villa and estate
US chat show queen Ellen DeGeneres and her Australian actress wife Portia de Rossi have knocked £6.4million off the price of their Santa Barbara estate.
First listed earlier this year for £39.9million, the Californian villa now has a reduced price of £29.5million.
Built by noted American architect Wallace Frost for his family in the Thirties, the home was restored decades later by architectural and interior designer John Saladino as part of a meticulous project lasting five years.
DeGeneres and de Rossi snapped up the villa in 2013, then expanded the estate by buying two adjacent properties to make a total of almost 17 acres in the picturesque hills of Santa Barbara.
The couple spared no expense in modernising the space for a relaxed lifestyle.
The 10,500sq ft house includes six bedrooms, eight bathrooms, nine fireplaces, multiple libraries and a marble-wrapped chef’s kitchen.
There’s an indoor-outdoor pavilion for entertaining, a lap pool, championship tennis court and state-of-the-art security systems.
It is on Sotheby’s International Realty’s books. Take a tour of the home in our gallery above.