Besides the pandemic, which upended the lives of almost everyone everywhere, it’s been an especially tumultuous year for NBA star Tristan Thompson. The 6’9” power forward appears to be reunited with his on-again-off-again girlfriend and baby momma, ubiquitous reality TV personality Khloé Kardashian, after they broke up when it came to light he’d cheated with Jordyn Woods, the now former best friend of Kardashian’s younger half-sister Kylie Jenner; after almost a decade with the Cleveland Cavaliers, during which he won an NBA Championship in 2016, he signed on to dribble and shoot for the Boston Celtics on a two-year contract at close to $10 million a year; and just this week he filed a $100,000 libel suit against a woman who has spent the last year making claims he’s the father of her child. (A paternity test has already shown he’s not the father.)
Thompson hasn’t had such an easy go of it in the real estate arena either. Amid all the baby and relationship drama that’s played out on TMZ, he’s been forced to chop the asking price of his Encino, Calif., mansion to $7.9 million, a whopping $600,000 less than the $8.5 million he asked when it first come up for sale almost a year ago but still a substantial profit on the $6.5 million he paid for the suburban mansion just two years ago.
Listings held by Tomer Fridman at Compass show the nearly 9,900-square-foot suburban mansion was built in the once fashionable and nowadays omnipresent “modern farmhouse” style, and sits behind gates on a pancake-flat .43-acre parcel. In addition to the glamorously decked out main house with five bedrooms and 6.5 bathrooms, a spacious poolside guesthouse adds another two bedrooms and a bathroom.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com Probably professionally decorated formal living and dining rooms, the former with a marble fireplace and the latter with purple, watercolor-like wall coverings, flank the double-height entrance gallery that sports downright elegant flannel-grey and white checkerboard marble floor. The staircase steps are also and even more decadently sheathed in marble.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com A butler’s pantry connects the dining room to the huge high-end kitchen that has not just one but two islands topped by thinly veined black marble that waterfalls off the ends, while the adjoining breakfast room is boldy emblazoned with an earth-toned graphic print wall paper.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com Just off the kitchen, and comfortably furnished with a giant sectional sofa, the family room’s fireplace is set into a marble column between built-in shelving. A room-wide bank of full-height glass sliders peel open to the backyard for an easy flow between indoor and outdoor living and entertaining spaces.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com The main floor is finished off by a temperature regulated wine cellar behind a sheet of glass, a library/office full of custom built-ins and a picayune but plush home theater with a couple handfuls of black-and-white images of silver screen legends hung on the pewter walls.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com Thompson’s bedroom is an unsurprisingly lavish affair replete with a marble fireplace, a morning bar with beverage fridge and two marble bathrooms, one in white, the other in black and both with oversized steam showers, plus an secured walk-in closet lined with glass cabinets that show off his extensive sneaker collection.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com A stone-paved entertainment terrace between the main house and guesthouse incorporates a built-in grill and bar for al fresco gatherings.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com The two-bedroom and one-bathroom poolside guesthouse is fully self-contained with a roomy wood-floored lounge, a full kitchen and two walls of folding glass doors. Thick hedges encircle the yard but, per listing photos, aren’t yet quite tall enough to screen out some of the neighboring homes.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com Earlier this year, Thompson sold a five-bedroom and seven-bathroom lakefront home tucked into a gated enclave in Bratenahl, Ohio, an affluent suburb of Cleveland, for $2.5 million, a notable amount under the $3.25 million asking price but still a chunk above the $1.9 million he paid for the three-story contemporary in 2015.