Kirstie Alley’s Estate Lists Lisa Marie Presley’s Former Florida Home

It was almost 23 years ago veteran Hollywood actress Kirstie Alley paid rock-and-roll royal Lisa Marie Presley $1.5 million for a waterfront home in Clearwater, Florida.

That both Presley and Alley owned homes in the Gulf Coast city has to do, of course, with Clearwater serving as the headquarters for the Church of Scientology. Presley had been brought into the controversial religion by her mother Priscilla when she was young but had given it up by 2014, while Alley was a longtime, prominent and outspoken member until her death in December, at 71, due to colon cancer.

Now, and coincidentally enough on the heels of Lisa Marie Presley’s passing in late January, Alley’s 1990s contemporary home in Clearwater has surfaced on the market with an asking price of just under $6 million.

Right next door to fellow Scientologist John Travolta’s former home, which he unloaded over the summer of 2021 for $4 million, the late actress’s compound is anchored by a 7,800-square-foot main house with five bedrooms and five and a half bathrooms dispersed over its three floors. The property also includes a recently remodeled two-bedroom and one-bath apartment atop the compound’s six-car garage, plus a duplex with two recently updated one-bed/one bath units.

Beyond the main residence’s double-height foyer, with its two staircases, one going up and the other down, there are more than half a dozen spacious living rooms and dining areas, plus an up-to-date kitchen with a couple of monkey light fixtures dangling over the breakfast bar, perhaps a cheeky nod to the monkeys Alley once kept on her L.A. estate.

Perched on the top floor with a curved wall of glass and a small balcony, the main bedroom includes an original bathroom with an odd mishmash of materials — glass blocks, river stone, and banker’s green marble tile — while a nearly 45-foot-long ground-floor rec room gives access to the heated swimming pool and spa. Several of the other bathrooms in the main house were updated.

Tucked behind 200 feet of protective wall and enveloped in tropical plantings that shield the home from the street, the compound also offers a couple of courtyards and a patch of lawn that stretches down the bulkheaded waterfront and recently re-built 60-foot dock.

The listing agent is Ray Cassano of Station Square Realty.

Though Alley had thinned her property portfolio — she shed a secluded hideaway in Maine some years ago and her grand estate in L.A.’s Los Feliz went for $7.8 million in 2021 — she still owned a considerable amount of property across the country. In addition to her Clearwater holdings, tax records show her as the owner of side-by-side homes in her hometown of Wichita, Kansas. Acquired by the “Cheers” and “Veronica’s Closet” actress in the mid-Aughts, one of the homes abuts the local Church of Scientology Center. And though she didn’t exactly make a secret of it, few seem to know that since the 1980s the late actress owned 350-some semi-remote acres outside the itty-bitty town of Ruch, in the densely wooded and drop-dead-gorgeous mountains of southern Oregon’s Rogue Valley.