Foreign Property News | Posted by Hnin Ei Khin
Academy Award-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio has padded out his real estate portfolio with a 1930s estate in Beverly Hills, California, months after two separate deals in nearby Malibu.
The Don’t Look Up actor purchased the traditional-leaning property, which has five bedrooms and five-and-a-half bathrooms, for $9.9 million, luxury real estate news website Dirt reported. The villa, originally listed for $10.2m, cost its previous buyers $6.1m in 2016.
Earlier in 2021, DiCaprio spent $13.8m on an oceanfront Malibu retreat and sold his Carbon Beach home in the same city for $10.3m.
The actor, 47, is a major property investor. Besides a Spanish colonial-style mansion in Los Feliz, Los Angeles, several condos in New York City and a private island off the coast of Belize, his main residence is a three-house compound in the Bird Streets neighbourhood of Los Angeles.
DiCaprio is thought to be one of the world’s richest actors, with a net worth estimated at between $260m and $300m.
As this column has previously reported, he has also invested in lab-grown meat. Among his holdings are stakes in Dutch brand Mosa Meat, which is behind the world’s first cultivated hamburger, and Israel’s Aleph Farms, which has shown that steak and rib-eye can be grown in a laboratory.
Other companies in his portfolio include start-ups in recycling, cultivated diamonds and technology.
Ref: Celebrity net worth: Leonardo DiCaprio pays $9.9m for Beverly Hills estate
