Florida Real Estate: 10 Celebrity Homes That Sold for the Most

Nicole Spector
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Ah, celebrities, they’re just like us! Until you get a glimpse of their designer wardrobes, their luxury cars, their personal assistants and, perhaps most strikingly, their epic homes. The rich and famous aren’t known for their modest abodes, and some celebs’ lavish dwellings are simply astonishingly expensive.

Using data from various high-end real estate sites and its own local knowledge, Palm Paradise Realty Group, a concierge real estate service located in Florida, found the 10 most expensive celebrity homes sold in the Sunshine State. Get ready for some jaw-dropping, eye-popping prices.

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10. Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez (A-Rod)

  • Home size (square footage): 14,764 sq. ft.

  • Location: Miami

  • Home value: $40 million

She may just be Jenny from the block but her real estate prowess now lands her in some pretty pricey housing markets. After her separation from former professional Major League Baseball player A-Rod, the two sold their Miami mansion for a mint.

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9. Caroline Wozniacki and David Lee

  • Home size (square footage): 7,000 sq. ft.

  • Location: Fisher Island

  • Home value: $42.5 million

Florida’s Fisher Island was home to one of sport’s most romantic couples: tennis star Caroline Wozniacki and her former NBA player husband David Lee. They sold this luxurious penthouse on an exclusive enclave of Fisher Island in Miami Beach for $42.5 million.

8. Cher

  • Home size (square footage): 12,450 sq. ft.

  • Location: Miami Beach  

  • Home value: $42.5 million

At this point, if Cher could turn back time she wouldn’t because not only has she had huge success in the music and film industries, but she’s also no slouch in the real estate department. Just one of her homes, located in Miami Beach, was sold for $42.5 million.

7. Gabriel Plotkin

  • Home size (square footage): 13,381 sq. ft.

  • Location: Coral Gables

  • Home value: $44 million

Gabriel Plotkin’s Coral Gables 13,381-square-foot home sold for $44 million. As a hedge fund manager, he’s no stranger to large sums of money and then turned around and bought adjacent properties in Miami Beach for millions of dollars to renovate after the sale.

6.  John Lennon (Estate, Presumably)

  • Home size (square footage): 14,000 sq. ft.

  • Location: Palm Beach

  • Home value: $47.5 million

Imagine having over $40 million to spend on real estate. Though he died in 1981, this property was purchased by Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1980 for $725,000.

5. Carl G. Fisher

  • Home size (square footage): 20,000 sq. ft.

  • Location: Miami

  • Home value: $65 million

Though he was a famous American entrepreneur, Fisher has also come to be known as the man who invented Miami Beach as he was the first to turn what was essentially swampland into the posh area coveted by the rich and famous. If you had to stretch that mortgage out over 30 years, it would be a reasonable $300,000 a month.

4. Russ Weiner

  • Home size (square footage): 15,000 sq. ft.

  • Location: South Florida

  • Home value: $71.5 million

Russ Weiner probably isn’t up all night worrying about how he’ll afford a down payment for a new home. The founder of Rockstar Energy Drink put two of his Florida homes up for sale for a combined price of $71.5 million.

3. Ken Griffin

  • Home size (square footage): 25,000 sq. ft.

  • Location: Miami

  • Home value: $106 million

Griffin is the second hedge fund manager on this list, so this job must pay well. The billionaire shattered the Miami real estate price record, shelling out an estimated $106 million for this waterfront estate.

2. Larry Ellison

  • Home size (square footage): 15,000 sq. ft.

  • Location: Palm Beach

  • Home value: $145 million

When you’re a billionaire like Ellison, spending hundreds of millions of dollars on a house or two doesn’t even break your stride. Ellison is an American entrepreneur and businessman who co-founded Oracle Corporation, among other fruitful endeavors.

1. Ziff Publishing Family

  • Home size (square footage): 62,200 sq. ft.

  • Location: Manalapan

  • Home value: $195 million

The house was listed at just under $200 million, but it is rumored that it sold for closer to $175 million, which is still no paltry sum. The sale included the main residence, a guesthouse, guest cottages and more. The property also includes a swimming pool, golf area, tennis court and half-basketball court in case you get bored.

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