His 76ers were punted from the NBA playoffs this season after a disappointing Round 2 loss to the Atlanta Hawks, but Ben Simmons is still winning off the court. The 24-year-old Aussie is young, famous — though he’s probably still best known to non-NBA fans as the former boyfriend of Kendall Jenner — and currently playing on a five year, $177 million contract. And as of this month, he’s now the owner of a $17.5 million mansion set deep within Kardashian territory, inside guard-gated Hidden Hills.
Once upon a time, Hidden Hills was a sleepily pastoral San Fernando Valley community with more horses and hay than two-legged humans. Today, things are different. Mansions fill the community, Ferraris outnumber fillies, and the area has become famed for its very new kind of celebrity money — residents now include scores of professional athletes and hip-hop musicians, among them heavy hitters like Drake, Lil Wayne, Matt Stafford, and Dwyane Wade. Also in the community are Jeffree Star, Lori Loughlin, and nearly every Kardashian known to mankind.
Situated at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac on a 1.5 acre lot, the Simmons estate was built new in 2021 and features a modern farmhouse-style architecture bent, with charcoal-colored brick and reclaimed wood siding. Designed and built by Max Nobel of Nobel LA, the compound includes a main mansion and house-sized guesthouse, plus two separate swimming pools. On a lushly landscaped 1.5 acre lot, the spread weighs in with seven bedrooms and eight baths in about 12,000 square feet of living space.
Though the property was never officially listed on the open market, it had been shopped around as a $20 million whisper listing by high-end heavyweight realtors Josh and Matt Altman of the Altman Brothers Team at Douglas Elliman. Stephen Sweeney of SGS Estates co-repped Simmons with Bre Tiesi of Keller Williams. The house was also featured last week in a video tour conducted by popular YouTuber Enes Yilmazer.
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Image Credit: Nobel LA Behind gates, the property features a long driveway and two separate motorcourts. Attached to the main home’s side is a three-car garage, while the main entrance is around the corner, flanked by mature olive trees and emerald green lawns.
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Image Credit: Nobel LA Inside, the property is a distinctly masculine affair, with the front door opening into a blacked-out foyer. Overhead are sleek contemporary light fixtures, below are giant slabs of grigio marble. A dramatic entrance gallery with backlit rift oak paneling leads to the property’s centerpiece — a massive great room hewn from dark shades of grey and gold.
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Image Credit: Nobel LA Stealing the show are two custom metal chandeliers, which together reportedly retailed for well over $100,000. Then there’s the “floating” fireplace, with its marble base and enormous brass siding, that effectively bisects the room’s separate dining and living spaces.
Also immediately off the dining area — squirreled away well out of sight from the “main” designer kitchen — is a separate and more utilitarian chef’s catering kitchen with a private entrance and commercial-grade appliances.
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Image Credit: Nobel LA Beyond the great room, a long hallway leads past marble double doors that guard a soundproof movie theater. Further on, the hallway spills into a double-height family room with custom cabinetry ideal for artsy figurines.
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Image Credit: Nobel LA The staircase ferries guests up to a balcony connecting the master suite wing with the secondary wing, which holds the remaining bedrooms. A bonsai tree spices up the normally dead area beneath the stairwell.
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Image Credit: Nobel LA The sleek, ultramodern “main” kitchen sports high-end appliances carefully integrated into brass and marble paneling. Sliding glass pocket doors open to an al fresco dining terrace.
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Image Credit: Nobel LA Upstairs, the master suite overlooks the pool and its poolside cabana.
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Image Credit: Nobel LA One notable thing the property lacks is a sweeping city lights view, the kind desired by many youthful moneyed buyers. To make up for that, the developers made the outdoors its own spectacle of sorts, with the infinity-edged swimming pool seemingly cantilevered over the grassy lawn below, flowing directly into the main mansion’s walls of glass.
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Image Credit: Nobel LA There’s a deck beside the pool forged from marble, too, along with a more traditional wooden deck set catty-corner to the marble one.
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Image Credit: Nobel LA The poolside cabana offers a lounge area with a party-sized flatscreen TV, plus a convenient bathroom.
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Image Credit: Nobel LA And yes, even the mini-me guesthouse has its own negative-edge plunge pool.
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Image Credit: Nobel LA Inside, the guesthouse bedroom is larger than many a McMansion’s master suite, with a giant fireplace, sitting area, and floor-to-ceiling glass panels overlooking the pool and the grassy hillside beyond, where an ancient oak tree keeps things shady.
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Image Credit: Nobel LA The guesthouse’s master bath is completely swaddled in marble and has more lush views of that same hillside, while the guesthouse closet is likewise boutique-sized.
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