Singer Ariana Grande has sold a Montecito home built from two 300-year-old English barns she bought two years ago from Ellen DeGeneres for $9.1 million.
Grande sold the 5,500 square foot home at 210 Miramar Avenue in an off-market deal, Dirt.com reported. The buyer was Michael Kives, founder of K5 Global, a Century City-based venture capital firm.
The star behind No. 1 single “7 Rings” bought the two-bedroom, three-bathroom home in 2020 for $6.8 million.
The Tudor-style house known as Porter House was originally built in England in the 1700s as two separate barns. They were disassembled, shipped to California, then reassembled in the coastal celebrity enclave south of Santa Barbara.
DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi bought it in January 2020 for $3.6 million, renovated it and returned it to Grande for $6.8 million, which waited two years and made 2.3 million dollars on its sale.
The brown-on-white two-story house stands behind tall hedges and large gates, where the crooner was married last summer.
Inside her Narnia-like interior are two kitchens with designer appliances, two dining areas, two full bathrooms and two powder rooms. There are vaulted ceilings soaring above concrete, stone, and brick floors warmed by at least five fireplaces.
An octagonal library has antique 28-pane casement windows. The master bedroom on the mezzanine overlooks one of the two living rooms of the house.
The home, located on a cul-de-sac three blocks north of the 101 freeway, opens to multiple brick patios surrounded by tall trees and fairytale gardens lined with stone paths. The entrance is behind a circular stone driveway.
Last month DeGeneres and de Rossi, seasoned real estate investors along the Central Coast, flipped a Montecito estate they bought six months ago for $36 million – pocketing $15 million in the off-market agreement. The buyer: musical director Scooter Braun, director of Justin Bieber and Ariande Grande.
DeGeneres and de Rossi still maintain a $14 million ranch in Montecito, as well as several cottages in the area.
Grande owns two estates in the Hollywood Hills, including a $9 million mansion in the Bird Streets neighborhood and a $5 million home purchased earlier this year from Cameron Diaz, according to Dirt. She also owned a Paul McClean-designed mansion that was sold last year for $14 million to talent agent Nancy Josephson and film producer Larry Sanitsky.
Kives and his wife Lydia also own a home in Beverly Hills that they bought last year for $12.7 million, Dirt reported.
— Dana Barthelemy
