Idle notes: Homes of super-powerful celebrities

FORBES’ Celebrity 100 list ranks America’s most powerful stars. With the help of Realtor.com, Trulia.com and others, Forbes investigated where these actors, singers and personalities bed down for the night. We included homes bought and sold in the past year or so as well as a few long-term nests of the stars. Perhaps not surprisingly, most are nestled in and around the Los Angeles area.Ashton Kutcher Celebrity 100 rank: 51; made $24 millionHome: Arrowhead Drive, Los Angeles, CAList Price: $10.8 millionFinal Sales Price: $8.45 millionKutcher was renting the 9,400-square-foot Hollywood Hills home pictured here, but he reportedly decided to buy it after fellow Celebrity 100 list maker Justin Bieber expressed interest in a purchase. The house has floor-to-ceiling windows and cantilevered rooms and balconies overlooking Lake Hollywood.Justin BieberCelebrity 100 Rank: No. 3; made $55 millionReported purchase: Hacienda-style estate, Calabasas, CA (pictured above) List Price: $6 millionThe Biebs was on the prowl for a Los Angeles-area home for months, reportedly settling on this six-bed, seven-bath hacienda-style home tucked away in a celebrity-centric development. Rumors swirled that he’d originally wanted to buy the home Ashton Kutcher was renting.Jennifer AnistonCelebrity 100 Rank: No. 22; made $11 million Home (pictured): Bel Air Estate, Los Angeles, CAPurchase Price: $20.97 millionHomes (recently sold): two West Village Condos, New York, NYSales Price: $6.5 million for bothThe A-list actress, recently engaged to actor/screenwriter Justin Theroux, has kept herself busy with real estate the past several years. After selling her custom Beverly Hills “Ohana” estate for nearly $38 million last year, she picked up two neighboring condos in a West Village pre-war building in Manhattan, paying roughly $7 million. She recently offloaded them for a loss of half a million dollars, choosing to move back to the West Coast.The newest conquest is this 8,500-square-foot midcentury modern house, which sits behind high gates on 3 acres that include vineyards. Home design site CasaSugar speculates that it might be the perfect venue for, say, a private celebrity wedding ...Taylor SwiftCelebrity 100 Rank: No. 57; made $57 millionHome (pictured): Cape Cod-style Estate, Beverly Hills, CAPurchase Price: $3.97 millionHome: The Adelicia Penthouse, Nashville, TN Purchase Price: $1.99 million Home: Northumberland Estate, Nashville, TNPurchase Price (bought for her parents): $2.5 millionIn April, the songstress scooped up this 2,800-square-foot East Coast-style traditional with its gated entry, a guest house and a tennis court. Located in the Los Angeles area, it was the singer’s second home; she bought a $2 million Nashville, Tenn. penthouse in 2009.Even more recently, Taylor Swift is said to have purchased a $4.9 million Massachusetts beach house on the same private road as Ethel Kennedy’s compound. Just so happens she’s also dating Conor Kennedy, Ethel’s grandson.She has also purchased homes for her parents in Nashville.Tom Brady and Gisele BundchenBrady’s Celebrity 100 Rank: No. 59; made $27 millionBundchen’s Celebrity 100 Rank: No. 61; made $45 millionHome (pictured at left): Brentwood custom-built estate, Los Angeles, CAHome: Beacon Street Penthouse, Boston, MAList Price: $10.5 millionHome (pictured above; recently sold): Mandarin Oriental Condo, New York, NYSales Price: $17.5 million Earlier this year the NFL quarterback and his supermodel wife moved into a 22,000-square-foot custom-built manse in the Brentwood neighborhood of LA, pictured at left. The new spread boasts eight bedrooms, a six-car garage, a lagoon-shaped swimming pool, an elevator, a weight room and a wine cellar. Brady also recently unloaded his NYC Time Warner Center penthouse (pictured above) for $17.5 million to Green Mountain Coffee billionaire Robert Stiller and has his Boston, Mass. penthouse listed for $10.5 million as well. Forbes.com

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Idle notes: Homes of super-powerful celebrities