October 5, 2008
Cher pays $1.4M for a 1,455-square-foot house in West Hollywood, CA
Singer-songwriter and actress Cher has paid $1,400,000 to purchase a two-bedroom, 1,455-square-foot house in West Hollywood, Calif.
In a Big Time Listings exclusive, we can report on the purchase of the small, traditional-style house by Cher. Sorry for not posting anything yesterday; we were busy with other writing tasks this week. Hopefully, the voluminous amount of material we’ve uploaded today (especially given that it’s a Saturday!) will make up for that.
Built in 1937, Cher’s new, two-story house sits behind gates on a minuscule, 0.09-acre (3,985-square-foot) lot, according to public records. Features in the house include one and a half baths, a gallery entrance with hardwood floors, a living room with vaulted ceilings, and a chef’s kitchen, according to public records.
The house had been on the market for $1,599,000. Records show that Cher’s trust purchased the house on August 12, with the deal being recorded on August 28.
What was Cher’s purpose in buying this house? It’s a little unclear. However, we know that Cher, 62, helped her lesbian activist daughter Chastity buy a different house in West Hollywood back in 2003 for $1,700,000 (actually a duplex, with one portion measuring 1,470 square feet and the other totaling 746 square feet). Cher and Chastity, who together made that 2003 purchase using both of their separate trusts, continue to own that duplex. And it’s easy to assume that Cher’s recent purchase somehow relates to Chastity, a longtime denizen of West Hollywood who is Cher’s only daughter.
Obviously, Cher herself has made news most in the celebrity real estate world for having listed her 13,126-square-foot mansion at 25142 Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu over the summer for a whopping $45,000,000, as we noted in early August. Cher also owns a 2,302-square-foot, duplex unit (two 1,151-square-foot units) on the 26th and 27th floors of the Sierra Towers partyrise in West Hollywood, which she purchased from director Vincent Gallo in early 2006 for exactly $3,000,000, according to public records. Everyone and their brother (including us) reported at the time that the duplex, which is the only two-story unit in Sierra Towers, sold for $4,500,000, but public records show that Cher’s purchase actually was for $3,000,000.
One last point: some websites out there that list dated addresses for celebrities show Chastity Bono living at 8968 Vista Grande Street in West Hollywood. Please disregard that. Chastity sold that 1,104-square-foot house in late 2005 for $829,000, according to public records, after it had been on the market for $915,000. Take a look at the Los Angeles Times’ Ruth Ryon’s column on Chastity’s listing of that house from October 2005.
A new program allows for sale by owner home sellers list on the MLS for a flat fee.
Filed under Celebrity Homes, Hollywood Stars, Music Icons by Bob Goldsborough
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“Chastity, a longtime denizen of West Hollywood who is Cher’s only child.”
Whoops.. Cher also has a son, Elijah Blue Allman, by rocker gregg Allman.
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[...] Singer-songwriter and actress Cher has paid $1,400,000 to purchase a two-bedroom, 1,455-square-foot house in West Hollywood, Calif. In a Big Time Listings exclusive, we can report on the purchase of the small, traditional-style house by Cher. Sorry for not posting anything yesterday; we were busy with other writing tasks this week. Hopefully, the voluminous amount of material weve uploaded today (especially given that its a Saturday!) will make up for that. Built in 1937, Chers new, tw source: Cher pays $1.4M for a 1,455-square-foot house in West Hollywood, CA [...]
Cher has 2 kids.
tlp333:
could this be the list that everyone on the site was trying to find?
“In regards to your upcoming summary, I have been keeping some brief half-assed records myself. Here they are:
1. 217 S.McCadden (Issac Mizrahi?)
2. 9400 Readcrest (Brendan Fraser?)
3. 1967 N. Curson Ave (Patrick Dempsey?)
4. 9274 Swallow Dr (Badger Memorial Trust)
5. 2418 St. George St (Salvator Xuereb?)
6. 12120 Laurel Terrace Dr (Eyal Podell?)
7. 2971 Briar Knoll Dr (Bardsley Trust)
8. 228 43rd St (Manhattan Beach - Chris Knight/Adrienne Curry?)
9. 2552 Benedict Canyon Dr (Samson D Trust)
10. 815 Canada St (Samson D Trust)
11. 1361 Ridgecrest Dr (former Desi Arnaz Jr.)
12. 316 N Rossmore Ave (Cameron Diaz?)
13. 19753 Grand View Dr (Topanga - 2 Owls Trust)
14. 2226 N. Berendo St (Katherine Heigl?)
15. 11911 Ashdale Lane (Tracey Danza?)
16. 2675 Astral Dr (Nicole Scherzinger?)
17. 1530 N. Easterly Dr (Jane Wiedlin?)
18. 4207 Dundee Dr (Annas Bananas Trust)
19. 8918 Appian Way (Trent Reznor?)
20. 9060 Harland Ave (former Natalie Wood)
21. 3809 Amesbury Rd (Katherine Heigl?)
22. 551 Toyopa Dr (Conner Trust)
23, 1663 Summitridge Dr (Trent Reznor?)
24. 15432 Albright St (15432 Albright Street Trust)
25. 2152 Panorama Terr (Yellow Submarine Revocable Trust)
26. 1840 Camino Palmero St (Beck?)
27. 200 Toyopa Dr (Derrek Hough/Mark Ballas?)
28. 534 20th St (Santa Monica - 20th Street Trust)
29. 716 Westview Ave (Nashville - Kelly Clarkson?)
30. 1037 N. Laurel Ave #4 (The Laurel Loft Trust)
31. 2180 Groveland Dr (Vanessa Hudgens?)
32. 2341 E. Live Oak Dr (Paul Rudd?)”
The article states that Chastity is Cher’s only DAUGHTER, not her “only child”….Elijah is a SON.
Yes, that is it. Thank you!
Ben G and Gwin–
Thanks to you both for reading Big Time Listings. And you’re both right. It did originally call Chastity Cher’s only child (that was my boneheaded “research,” or rather lack thereof, and I take full blame for it), and I had my editor change it to being Cher’s only daughter.
Bob Goldsborough
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