8 Unique Celebrity Mansions You Don’t Want To Miss

What do you do with a $160 million dollar net worth and a certified private pilot license? Well, you might do something like what John Travolta did and design a house with a runway for airplanes.. Effectively turning your home into a business and personal traveling hub machine.

You see, Mr. Travolta isn’t the only ambassador of high end gadgets and ultimate creative luxury when it comes to the architecture of their personal domains.  

When it comes to homes, celebrities have proven to be creative geniuses of the world. Maybe it’s the excess accumulation of disposable income, maybe it’s whatever the innate talent is that’s spilling over into their lifestyles and personal ideals, or maybe it’s a mixture of both. Whatever it is, it yields incredibly juicy shit..

Let’s diggity dig dig..

The ‘Jett-Bleu’ estate, named after John Travolta’s children, is located in the Central Florida. The 6,400 square foot mansion designed to resemble an airport terminal sits at the end of a private 1.4 mile runway.

Aviation fanatic John Travolta can literally pull his private Boeing 707 or Gulfstream Jet to his front door as seen in the images below. According to Forbes Magazine, Travolta is the only private citizen in the United States who owns a former Boeing 707. The aircraft was repainted in vintage Qantas livery.

In addition to the two plane hangars the compound also boasts a swimming pool, gym, 16 car garage, horse ranch and a mini golf course. The home cost Travolta $2.5 Million to build and was completed in 2004.

Johnny Depp’s Hollywood Hills home was built in 1927. The residence is 7,430 square feet with 29 rooms, 8 bedrooms and 10 bathrooms. It is just a short walk from the Viper Room club that Depp used to own.

There are many rumors surrounding the name of the castle like mansion. Some say it was once owned by a childless widow of a multimillionaire, who used to throw parties for orphan children. Her young guests called it the “Castle of the Fairy Lady”.

Depp also owns Little Hall’s Pond Cay, a Caribbean Island and a villa in the South of France.

Jared Leto has recently joined the LA homeowners association by purchasing a former Military Compound often referred to as the Lookout Mountain Laboratory.

The Hollywood Hills property was used as a military film studio until the late 1960’s. This warehouse-like industrial compound has been renovated many times and comes with a lagoon-style swimming pool tucked away into a steep mountainside.

In 2009 Thomas J. Barrack Jr., an American private equity real estate investor, purchased this historic landmark in his conquest for distressed celebrity properties. The property hit the market again in 2015 for $100 million and is still for sale today.

The Neverland is not the only property owned by Tom Barrack in the Santa Barbara area. Mr. Barrack is also the owner of the Piocho Ranch situated at his Happy Canyon Vineyard in Downtown Santa Barbara. Piocho ranch was acquired in 1992 and is home to one of the most prestigious winery and polo facilities in the California area.

The Playboy Mansion is one of the most extravagant estates in Beverly Hills. It became famous in the 1970’s through media reports of Hugh Hefner’s lavish parties.

The residence was built in 1927 in the Holmby Hills area of Los Angeles and has been owned by Playboy magazine since 1971. This destination is known for the famous Playboy Mansion Party, the wild and crazy event hosted by founder Hugh Hefner and his Playboy bunnies.

Mr. Hefner has invested over $15 million in renovation and expansion of the legendary home. It was purchased by a son of a billionaire Daren Metropoulos in 2016 with the condition that Playboy Magazine founder Hugh Hefner would remain a resident until death do them part. Metropoulos paid a reported $100 million for the property.

The mansion has 29 rooms including a wine cellar, a game room, a zoo and aviary (and related pet cemetery), tennis courts, a waterfall and a swimming pool area that includes a patio and barbecue area, the famous grotto cave, a sauna and a bathhouse.

Michael Jordan’s 56,000-square-foot Highland Park compound is on the market after a failed attempt to auction it off. The custom residence was recently featured on Extra TV’s Millionaires and Mansions and  boasts 9 bedrooms, 15 bathrooms, an NBA-regulation basketball court, a guesthouse, and 3 climate-controlled garages that can house a total of 14 cars. Jordan purchased the 7.39-acre lot and initiated construction of the residence in 1991, at the height of his career. He moved into the home in 1994.

The home was initially put up for sale nearly 2 years ago, in early 2012, listed for $29 million. But what the tv show Millionaires and Mansions didn’t tell you, is that Jordan was unable to sell the home even after knocking a staggering $8 million off of the asking price in July 2013, close to a 30 percent price drop. Eventually Jordan turned to auction in an attempt to sell the home in December 2013. The attempt proved unsuccessful however, as nobody made the minimum bid of $13 million.

His Chicago compound, however, is by far his most opulent property. The interior boasts special features, such as a cigar room and a massive home gym. Exterior amenities include a chipping range and putting green, tennis courts, a lily pond, an outdoor pool, and a huge flagstone patio.

The home’s most impressive feature by far is the spectacular regulation basketball court. “There’s nobody — man, woman, or child — who walks on the court who is not stunned by it,” Katherine Malkin, the home’s listing agent, recently commented. “The lighting, the floor — everything is so beautiful.”

Brian Deegan is one of the most influential motocross riders in freestyle history. His home made the star maps list because of it’s quiet unique and rare feature, an infinity edge pool overlooking the motocross track where he practices his tricks.

Deegan has 8 XG medals, two WX gold medals and was the first to land a 360. He started racing off-road trucks in 2008 and took on his first rally competition just a month before XG 2009. Finished a solid 4th in his first XG Rally Car event. He suffered major injuries at both WX ’04 — a broken femur and breaks to both wrists — and in May ’05, when he crashed on a flip, lacerated a spleen and had a kidney removed, among other issues. The founder of the Metal Mulisha is one of the most recognizable names in action sports.

However, the home that they decided to build together is just as beautiful and simple as the two of them. The couple danced all around the world making waves but decided to settle on a piece of undeveloped property in Southern California and built it step by step together choosing everything from the window coverings to the chandeliers themselves…oh and with the help of Joan Behnke who handled the interior design and Richard Landry who was the lead architect on their home.

Of course a Football player from Northern California and a Supermodel from Brazil would want a French Chateau, and that is precisely what their designers gave them…in southern California.

The 14,000 square foot home sits on a generous patch of land with very few neighbors to insure privacy and even has a moat. The couple sold the house to hip-hop mogul Dr. Dre for a reported $40 million in 2014.