Oprah Winfrey

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In 2018, Oprah Winfrey purchased a scenic waterfront estate located in rural Orcas Island off the coast of Seattle. The real estate deal cost $8.3 million and was executed through an entity linked to her network. The media magnate reportedly purchased the property without visiting the home in person. After three years of ownership, the television host has decided to bid farewell to her island home as she reportedly lacks the time to maximize its usage. Recorded on Tuesday, Winfrey has officially sold her waterfront residence for $14 million in an off-market deal. Jen Cameron, vice president of Coldwell Banker Bain’s global luxury division, represented the buyer in the deal who is listed under the title of Lophodytes LLC. The billionaire public figure currently resides at her self-proclaimed Promised Land, a 70-acre ranch property located in Montecito, California. With an impressive real estate portfolio, Winfrey also owns homes in Telluride, Colorado and Maui, Hawaii.

Madroneagle Estate on Orcas Island spans 40 acres of lush landscape and features a 7,303-square-foot main house with four bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms. Decorative elements of the home consist of an eccentric copper and slate roof on the exterior and a luxuriously rustic cabin interior with finishes of rare, reclaimed wood. The picturesque property is perfect for entertaining as it offers a spacious living area with stone fireplace, kitchen with oversized center island and built-in pizza oven, and adjacent dining room. Other highlights of the reserved residence include a cozy library nook with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, game room, home office, wine cellar, and tasting room. Elsewhere on the estate rests a guesthouse located on a high cliff overlooking the private beach. With 2,948 square-feet, the guest space presents four bedrooms and three bathrooms. The exterior grounds of the island property highlight a sauna, pond, garden, hiking trails, and stream. The scenic estate comprises of two waterfront parcels and 3,000 feet of west-facing shoreline for spectacular sunset views.

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Tom Cruise

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In 2014, Cruise first listed his extravagant Telluride estate on the market for a whopping $59 million. When the steep asking price failed to attract buyers, the home was taken off the market. Seven years later, Cruise successfully relisted and sold the property at $39.5 million in only two months. Throughout the years, the Colorado ranch has served as a distinguishable location in Cruise’s career as the backdrop for his Vanity Fair profile in 2006 and his Oprah interview in 2008. Reportedly, Cruise is no longer in use of this property as his primary residence which is the presumed reason for his listing. Lead agent, Eric Lavey, and co-listing agent, Dan Dockray, of LIV Sotheby’s International Realty represented this property.

Built in 1994, this 10,000-square-foot estate spans 320 acres of picturesque land. As the listing describes, this property is fit for a movie star as the epitome of “luxury meets legend” with its seven bedrooms and nine bathrooms. The luxurious ranch is surrounded by scenic mountain views while being “custom-built for privacy.” Beyond the gated entry, the home's interior is equipped with a top-of-the-line chef’s kitchen, fitness center, recreation room, office suite, fireplaces, terraces, and outdoor space. The property also features a spectacular three-bedroom guest lodge. Decorative elements include bleached cedar timbers and native stone. While the lavish Colorado home is immersed in nature and forested trails, it is also a short distance to Telluride known for world-class skiing and golf.

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Have you ever thought about what it would be like to live next door to Oprah? She’s be bringing over freshly baked pies and throwing some amazing cocktail parties and yet would never be too loud or rambunctious. It would be perfect. She would be the perfect neighbor. Anyway, I digress.

The reason this is important is because this possibility is about to become reality for one lucky buyer. The home next door to Oprah in Montecito, a beautiful, $45 million dollar estate, is now on the market, listed by The Agency.

The home was formerly owned by someone famous in his own right, Ed Snider, the self-made millionaire behind the Philadelphia 76’ers, Eagles, and chairman of the company that owns the Flyers. No Oprah, but still pretty cool.

The home itself is also pretty incredible. Built in the image of Italy’s Lake Como, this estate sits on 9.37 acres of land and offers something unique to the area, a sense of peace, space, privacy, and luxury to its residents over looking the pacific ocean. The interior is full of wide-open windows to make the most of the ocean view in a panoramic image of the ocean all the way to the mountains in the distance. The space also features showroom closets, an entertainment level, chef’s kitchen, and spa bathroom that all covers over 2000 square feet. Tiered gardens, a reflecting pond, European-style pool and pavilion, tennis court, organic fruit and vegetable orchard, and two-bedroom guest house epitomize modern luxury and timeless sophistication in one of California’s most desirable enclaves.

But most importantly, Oprah lives next door. Maybe, if you live here, you guys can get one of those tin can phone lines to talk all the time! Just saying.

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