When celebrities are on the hunt for new digs, it's no surprise that the palatial estates of their peers often wind up at the tops of their lists. With mutual needs for state-of-the-art security and sprawling closet space, kinships (and competitions) among the stars are sometimes the perfect jumping-off point for potential buyers and sellers. Find out how Khloé Kardashian, Adam Sandler, Ryan Seacrest, and other celebrities have found their dream homes through their superstar connections.
WHO: Adam Sandler bought Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell's Pacific Palisades home in 2004.
PRICE: The funnyman spent $12 million on the acquisition.
DETAILS: At a New Year's Eve bash held by Hawn and Russell, Sandler's wife, Jackie—whose best friend is Hawn's son Oliver Hudson's wife, Erinn Bartlett—was admiring the 13,000-square-foot residence that the famous couple had recently decided to sell. Without seeing beyond the kitchen, Sandler made an offer and snagged the property before it ever officially hit the market.
WHO: Eva Longoria picked up Tom Cruise's sprawling Hollywood Hills estate in 2015.
PRICE: The Desperate Housewives alum shelled out $11.4 million for Cruise's Laurel Canyon abode.
DETAILS: The 2.75-acre grounds are outfitted with a main house, a guest residence, a lagoon-style pool, a children's playground, and an extravagant farmhouse kitchen. "I know Tom, he's a lovely person," Longoria has said of the Mission: Impossible star, with whom she has shared mutual friends David and Victoria Beckham since the early 2000s. "He did a very, very good job on this house because it was stunning and beautiful, and the minute we walked in I was like, 'This—this is a home.'"
The pricey compound Ryan Seacrest bought from Ellen DeGeneres
WHO:Ellen DeGeneres and Ryan Seacrest have shared more than just American Idol airtime. Two years after working together on the show's ninth season, the media moguls made a chart-topping real-estate exchange in 2012.
PRICE: DeGeneres purchased the main house for $29 million in 2007, but bought up the surrounding mansions in subsequent years. The 24,000-square-foot compound was initially listed for $60 million, but the comedian and wife Portia de Rossi lowered the asking price to $49 million, according to Trulia. Seacrest ultimately took the lavish home off their hands for $37 million.
DETAILS: Located on a private street in Beverly Hills, the manor's 9,200-square-foot main residence is flanked by three guest homes, a swimming pool, a tennis court, and koi ponds. Custom interior features include private offices, a meditation room, a personal gym, and a lap pool.
WHO: When an egging incident led to legal woes and disgruntled neighbors, Justin Bieber listed his 10,000-square-foot Calabasas mansion. Having just sold the Tarzana home she had shared with her ex, Lamar Odom, to The Big Bang Theory's Kaley Cuoco, Khloé Kardashian put in a bid with the singer.
PRICE: The reality star dished out $7.2 million for the house in 2014, just two years after Bieber paid a cool $6 million for it, according to Trulia.
DETAILS: In addition to sharing a social circle with Khloé's little sisters Kendall and Kylie Jenner, Bieber was once rumored to have dated older sister Kourtney Kardashian, who bought the house directly next door to his former party pad. Before vacating, Bieber had his graffitied skateboard ramp removed from the property, but he was later devastated to learn that Khloé removed a video game nook from under the stairs after moving in.
The house Khloé Kardashian purchased from Justin Bieber
WHO: Jerry Seinfeld purchased Billy Joel's oceanfront Amagansett, New York, mansion in 2000.
PRICE: The comic shelled out $32 million for the Long Island grounds in a record-breaking, privately inked deal.
DETAILS: A mutual friend, comedian Paul Reiser, connected the native New Yorkers after several leads fell through for prospective East Hampton buyer Seinfeld. Joel gave him and his wife, Jessica, a personal tour of his Long Island home and brokered the deal without commissioning an agent. Extensive renovations ensued postsale, which included Seinfeld installing his own baseball diamond on the 12-acre property.
WHO: Alicia Keys and rapper husband Swizz Beatz picked up Lenny Kravitz's New York City apartment in 2010.
PRICE: Kravitz paid just over $7 million for the prewar flat. He sold to Keys for $14.5 million in 2010; in 2012, she flipped it for $18 million, according to Trulia.
DETAILS: Long before negotiating the 16-room SoHo penthouse, the musicians had performed "Higher Ground" together with Stevie Wonder at the 2004 MTV Video Music Awards; and in 2009, Kravitz included a portrait of Keys among his personal photography collection featured in Russian Vogue. Pre-sale, Kravitz had intermittently listed and relisted the lavish suite—with features including floating glass staircases and a glass solarium dining room—over an eight-year span, and even rented the space (separately) to Denzel Washington and Nicole Kidman.
The New York apartment Alicia Keys bought from Lenny Kravitz
WHO: Despite her long-standing feud with Kelly Osbourne, Christina Aguilera put their differences aside when she bought the Osbourne family's Beverly Hills home in 2008.
PRICE: Ozzy and Sharon acquired the gated property for just under $4 million in 1999; Aguilera shelled out $11.5 million for the 11,000-square-foot house where the Osbournes filmed their hit MTV reality series, according to Trulia.
DETAILS: After she sank serious cash into a massive remodel, the burlesque-style home—which boasts a game room, a movie theater, and gift-wrapping room—sold for $2 million less than Aguilera's $13.5 million asking price in 2013. And the shared experience couldn't completely mend fences: Kelly reignited the spat with her former frenemy by spewing insults and expletives at the star while hosting an episode of Fashion Police.
The former Osbourne home that was purchased by Christina Aguilera
WHO: Sarah Paulson didn't think she was in the market for a house—until she heard that her American Horror Story castmate Emma Roberts was selling hers.
PRICE: In a deal completed off-market, Roberts sold the recently renovated Hollywood Hills West home to Paulson for $1.65 million in October 2016, making it the the first time the 12 Years a Slave star had ever been a homeowner.
DETAILS: In an interview with Architectural Digest in April, Paulson revealed what she had been doing to the 3-bedroom, 3.5-bath house since taking it off Roberts's hands. Despite the house having already been renovated, Paulson decided to add her own personal touch, replacing the oak plank floors with concrete, and installing a pool. But unbeknownst to Roberts, the former owner, and Paulson, there already was one. "I had the guy come up, and it turns out there is a pool already underneath the ground!" Paulson told AD. "I just saw [Emma] the other day and I'm like, 'Did you know you had a pool under there?' She was like, 'WHAT! I WOULD HAVE CHARGED YOU SO MUCH MORE MONEY!'"
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