As she’s shot from impoverished obscurity to social media phenom to international fame and fortune, genre bending indie pop singer Ashley Frangipane, more commonly known around the globe as Halsey, and named to Time magazine’s 2020 list of 100 most influential people in the world, has steadily upgraded her residential circumstances in increasingly suburban neighborhoods across Los Angeles.
About four years ago, on the heels of her certified two-times Platinum breakout album “Badlands,” the then just 22 year old singer picked up an ultra-contemporary hillside home in L.A.’s historic Beachwood Canyon that she unloaded about a year ago at $2.375 million, a modest profit on the $2.23 million she paid.
Then, about two years ago, a full year before she sold her Beachwood Canyon starter house, the activist-minded “Without Me” singer set her real estate sites toward the San Fernando Valley where she shelled out $2.4 million for an encyclopedically restored and delicately updated midcentury pavilion tucked into the affluent suburban foothills of L.A’s Sherman Oaks community.
Now, just a few months after she plunked down more than $10 million for Liam Payne’s sprawling compound in even-more-far-flung Calabasas, and announced— via social media, of course — that she’s fixing to have a baby with her screenwriter boyfriend Alev Aydin, her pristine midcentury home is back up for sale at just under $2.8 million.
Listings held by Josh Myler at The Agency describe the secluded, just-over-2,400-square-foot spread as a “double gated celebrity compound” designed by celebrated midcentury architect Richard Dorman. Completed in 1959, and cleared of the singer’s personal belongings, the three-to-four-bedroom and 2.5-bath post-and-beam-built home is squirreled away down a long, easily missed private drive on almost half an acre that scenically nestles into a wooded hillside.
-
Image Credit: Realtor.com -
Image Credit: Realtor.com A simple but sizable masonry fireplace quietly dominates the combination living and dining space where the bone-colored terrazzo floor glistens in the reams of natural light that pour through solid walls of floor-to-ceiling glass and a couple of skylights in the wood-clad ceiling.
-
Image Credit: Realtor.com -
Image Credit: Realtor.com At 13 feet long and just nine feet wide, the galley kitchen certainly won’t appeal to culinary space hogs, but it is smartly arranged for efficiency and stylishly outfitted with up-to-date high-end appliances in a manner that respects the home’s vintage je ne sai quoi.
Beyond the kitchen, a wee service wing includes laundry facilities, a powder room and an office or potential fourth bedroom with outside entrance.
-
Image Credit: Realtor.com -
Image Credit: Realtor.com Two guest bedrooms, both with glass sliders to the yard, share an ample, elegantly restrained hall bath with a custom wood vanity and simple walk-in shower space sheathed in shiny dove grey tiles.
-
Image Credit: Realtor.com -
Image Credit: Realtor.com Dark, espresso-toned wood floors ground the main bedroom that features a wide backyard view thanks to a wall of windows. And, like the hall bath, the attached bathroom is a carefully clean-lined and finely tailored update of the original.
-
Image Credit: Realtor.com -
Image Credit: Realtor.com A 11-foot by 13-foot freestanding shed nipped away at a cattywompus angle along the side of the house contains what marketing materials describe as a “state-of-the-art recording studio.”
-
Image Credit: Realtor.com Lush and simply landscaped, the backyard’s turquoise swimming pool is surrounded by a narrow strip of thick lawn, appealingly imperfect plantings and thick clumps of mature trees.
-
Image Credit: Realtor.com Halsey’s new and markedly more expansive new digs out in Calabasas, which set her back close to $10.2 million — a huge sum by just about any standard but well below Payne’s initial asking price of $14 million, has plenty of room for Aydin and the 26-year-old mother to be to quietly bring up baby in idyllic seclusion. Set amid rolling lawns, waterfalls and vast gardens, the nearly five-acre compound includes an almost 10,000-square-foot mansion, a poolside guest suite plus a detached guesthouse, a recording studio and a massage/meditation pavilion atop a sun-drenched hill.