Hitmaking rapper Drake seems to be taking the "you only live once"
motto quite seriously--he's just dropped nearly $8 million on a
fantasy-come-true mansion in Los Angeles.
Drake's amazing new pad,
which measures up at 7,444 square feet and sits on three acres in the
uber-exclusive area of Hidden Hills, cost him $7.7 mil to be exact. And,
it has everything one would expect from such a price tag...including
seven bedrooms, nine bathrooms, a home theater, tennis and volleyball
courts, a stable and equestrian ring, and a Hefner-worthy pool complete
with a huge waterfall, grotto and wet bars. Heck, it even has its own
mechanical bull (the property was formerly owned by the founder of the
Saddle Ranch Chop House restaurant chain, which features a bull at each
location).
As you can see from these beautiful MLS listing
photos, It's a pretty impressive estate for a 25-year-old guy to call
home. But hey--YOLO, right?
Drake actually seems to have landed a
reasonable deal on the place: It originally hit the market in 2009 for
the whopping asking price of $27 million, a sum that Los Angeles real
estate blog
Curbedcalled "absolutely ludicrous." It fell to $9.95 million later that year, and after a few more price chops, Drake made his move.
Current listings in Hidden Hills aren't cheap no matter how one slices
it--they range from a low of $1.2 million all the way up to nearly $13
millon. Celebs who have bought, sold, or leased in the area include
Britney Spears, John Mayer, Melissa Etheridge, Lisa Marie Presley, Ozzy
and Sharon Osbourne, and the Kardashian-Jenner clan. So, Drake is really
just your basic average homeowner in this particular neighborhood.
In addition to hearing Drake's hits on the radio, countless kids and
their parents likely heard him over the weekend as the voice of Ethan
the Wooly Mammoth in
Ice Age 4: Continental Drift, which opened in theaters Friday.
