The most extravagant celebrity homes

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• John Travolta Airport House
• Celine Dion Aquatic Park
• “Land of Eternal Childhood” by Michael Jackson
• Megabar Britney Spears
• Donald Trump’s post-apocalyptic mansion
• Pierre Cardin’s spaceship

They say that money cannot buy good taste or common sense. But when the bank account is replete with six-digit numbers, you can safely ignore the opinions of others and indulge your whims with might and main. For example, to build your dream house with all the quirks that come from a prolonged childhood, Spielberg’s fantastic films or fairy tales from Walt Disney. People with a fat wallet are not required to report to anyone! So decided the main characters of our article, about the specific tastes of which will be discussed in the sequel.

John Travolta Airport House

There are two classes of airline users: the losers who travel to the airport to catch a plane, and those who park on their own front porch. John Travolta belongs to the second category of lucky ones. The Pulp Fiction star has erected an entire 1950s-style airport town in Florida with a 2.5 km runway, a control tower and two imposing hangars, where the very last seam is made with the latest technology. The central part of the “airfield” is occupied by Travolta’s house with an area of ​​838 sq. m, consisting of 6 bedrooms and a living room reminiscent of an airport waiting room. Near the house there is an outdoor pool and an extensive golf course.

As a professional pilot, John holds a Advanced Medical Pilot Diploma and owns four airliners: the Gulf Stream II, DC-3 Dakota, Lockheed Constellation and a Boeing 707 (worth $ 85 million), each with a matching porch at the actor’s Jumbalere aviation community of Florida, where Travolta built his air town. All aircraft are parked at a distance of no more than 30 meters from the house, so that from the cockpit the actor immediately gets into his cozy family nest.

According to Travolta, airplanes are “not a luxury, but a means of transportation” for him: he uses them to fly from one set to another. So, last year he flew every day “to work and back” during the filming of the movie “The Punisher” in the town of Tampa in Florida.

Travolta’s planes are visible from all the main rooms of his house through tall windows with unusual blue glass (the most modest of the actor’s star quirks). At the same time, the topic of aviation does not end there and continues inside the mansion in the form of an exposition of aircraft models and their photographs. It took the actor more than 8 years to create a unique airplane town..

Celine Dion Aquatic Park

Celine loves to swim, too much. Apparently, the sad experience of the Titanic taught her nothing! The singer has her own water park, which requires 24 million liters of water annually to fill. Such unprecedented water costs have drained local reserves, causing Dion to be fined by local authorities on more than one occasion, and litigation continues to this day..

The Canadian diva and her husband, Rene Angelil, bought their luxurious mansion located on Jupiter Island in Florida in 2005 for $ 12.5 million (today it is worth $ 20 million). Immediately after the deal was concluded, they began to renovate the building and erected a new house with an area of ​​1000 sq. m. Jupiter Island is located near the famous Palm Beach, home to the richest stratum of Florida. The island has a “quiet, calm” reputation, and, they say, Jacqueline Onassis herself wanted to buy a house in this corner of paradise, but its 700 inhabitants – of course, all multimillionaires – objected because of the former “first lady” addiction to gambling and too noisy parties.

The main building of the mansion contains 6 bedrooms and 4 more in the guest house. On the territory of the villa there is a huge wine cellar, a cinema, bungalows for staff, parking for 14 cars, a tennis court, a private beach, a dock for yachts and much more that only the elite can afford. And all this, not counting the colossal 100 sq. m with numerous water slides and waterfalls.

“Land of Eternal Childhood” by Michael Jackson

Glancing around Michael’s ranch, it’s easy to guess that the king of pop has dreamed of being a child all his life. His estate, Neverland, or “The Land of Eternal Childhood,” bought in 1988 for $ 19.5 million, covers an area of ​​2,500 acres and is located in the Santa Ynez Valley, California. The main attraction of the ranch is a huge amusement park that Michael created, proclaiming himself the new Peter Pan – a child who did not want to grow up. Among the many attractions there is a ferris wheel, slides and carousels, and next to them is a whole zoo with exotic animals: lions, tigers, panthers, etc. Next to the park is the singer’s imposing mansion of 33 rooms, including a 40-seat cinema, reclining armchairs upholstered in red velvet and soft pomegranate flooring. There is also a bar, decorated with a giant Oscar statue, where you could always find all kinds of sweets, popcorn and sodas. Michael’s Theater was built next to the main mansion, where he often gave concerts along with other famous artists. There are also two separate rooms with a large screen and couches, where terminally ill children, whom the singer often invited to his ranch, could comfortably watch their favorite films.

During Michael’s lifetime, about 40 gardeners tended his huge garden, which grew more than 120 thousand flowers from all over the world. Not far from the garden there is a wide pool with a springboard, protected from immodest eyes by spreading trees. Throughout the ranch, you can see antiques, porcelain figurines, toys and portraits of the singer in his stage costumes. Despite the fact that after Michael’s death the park of his dreams fell into disrepair and today rather resembles the Chernobyl landscape, the cost of the ranch continues to grow and today is 120 million dollars..

Megabar Britney Spears

Compared to other “star” houses, Britney’s mansion may seem even modest: it has only 7 bedrooms and 7 bathrooms, a living room, a dining room, a kitchen and a few other utility rooms. But this is only at first glance, since Britney’s fantasy is not subject to censorship: each room in the house has its own bar with a counter and an assortment of alcoholic drinks, which any Beverly Hills nightclub would envy. In addition, the queen of pop music ordered to demolish her tennis court and build … another bar, so that nothing prevents her from enjoying her favorite cocktails next to the equally beloved pool..

Britney bought her mansion in Malibu, California in 2004 for $ 6.3 million. In January 2007, in the midst of her divorce proceedings, Britney put up the house for sale for $ 13.5 million, but after 3 months its price dropped to 11.8 million due to lack of interest from buyers. According to them, the mansion was “too personalized” by its former owner. Even the fact that it is located in the exclusive Serra Retreat area, home to stars like Mel Gibson, did nothing to help the house sell quickly. In the end, the mansion was bought for $ 10 million by director Stephen Sommers, best known for his movie trilogy The Mummy. Today, the new owner, in an attempt to get the maximum dividends, put the house up for sale again, but at a price of $ 15.9 million..

Donald Trump’s post-apocalyptic mansion

The house of one of the richest people on the planet, billionaire Donad Trump, was bought by him in 2004 for $ 41.35 million. On its 80,000 sq. m contains 126 rooms, a giant banquet hall, a press center, an art gallery, a beauty salon and a winter garden of 4100 sq. m. There are also 2 guest houses, an outdoor pool and parking for 40 cars, as well as … 3 anti-nuclear shelters for the owner and his guests in the event of a nuclear bombardment. Today, Donald Trump’s mansion is valued at $ 125 million and is the most expensive real estate in the United States..

Pierre Cardin’s spaceship

The designer’s house is located on the French Riviera, in the small picturesque town of Theoule sur Mer, not far from the famous Cannes. In the 80s of the last century, Pierre Cardin, in love with astronomy, built his original mansion, where all doors and windows look like locks and portholes of a spaceship. There are almost no straight lines in the house: beds, sofas, walls – everything here has a rounded shape and was created by the design of Pierre Cardin himself, who always dreamed of “opening his own store on the moon”.

In total, the spaceship has over 100 windows, 10 bedrooms – each with its own bathroom – and a huge banquet hall for 350 people. On the territory of a villa of 10,000 sq. m, of which 8500 sq. m is occupied by an exotic garden, there are several swimming pools and an amphitheater for 500 people, which hosts a music and theater festival every summer.

The Cardin House is recognized as a historical heritage of France and is always open to the public. Today its cost is $ 7.8 million..

“Show me your house and I will tell you who you are” – this is how you can paraphrase a well-known phrase. No matter how much we put on a mask that “licks” our individuality, our home will certainly give it out to those around us. Good or bad – only you can judge!