Lady Gaga is proving she really moves like Jagger, and we’re not just talking musically. The “House of Gucci” star has moved out of the House of Gaga, or at least the Hollywood Hills house of Gaga, the one formerly long owned by Frank Zappa. L.A. Magazine first revealed that the estate sold for nearly $6.5 million — in a very quiet and very off-market deal — and it turns out the previously undisclosed buyer is rock ‘n’ roll scion Elizabeth “Lizzy” Jagger.
Frank Zappa bought the fabulously quirky compound in the 1970s, reportedly for just $75,000. Over the next two decades — all the way until his 1993 death — the widely influential musician raised his family on the property, which includes a vaguely Tudor-style main house with six bedrooms and five bathrooms, plus an attached staff apartment. There are also two detached guesthouses, both styled in a contemporary manner remarkably dissimilar from the main home’s Old World-inspired architecture.
Zappa’s widow Gail continued living in the house until her own death in 2015; the following summer, Zappa’s children sold the place to Gaga for roughly $5.3 million. Shortly after the deal closed, Gaga told Howard Stern that the house is “very special and magical” and announced her intentions to “restore it … and also kind of leave it the way it is.” She also disclosed that the deal included Zappa’s personal soundboard from his recording studio, though it’s unclear if Gaga still owns that soundboard or if it now belongs to Jagger.
Although she’s become known in her own right as a model for major brands like Tommy Hilfiger, Gap and Wrangler jeans, and as an activist for the Equal Rights Amendment, Jagger is perhaps most famously the third of Mick Jagger’s eight children, and the eldest of his four children with 1970s supermodel Jerry Hall, who is now married to multibillionaire Rupert Murdoch. For her own part, 37-year-old Lizzy is married to film producer Christopher Behlau; the couple welcomed their first child last year.
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Image Credit: Zillow Because the estate was never publicly offered for sale, the full extent of Gaga’s renovations and restorations isn’t publicly known. On paper, she turned a $1.2 million profit, though any upgrades made would’ve been costly, considering the main house is quite large — nearly 7,000 square feet. The place also sits on more than a half-acre of fully landscaped land, so five years of maintenance costs would be no small figure, either. Coupled with closing costs, taxes and any realtor fees, the seven-figure profit could have been swallowed up entirely by ancillary costs. But it’s hard to put a price tag on a labor of love, right? Particularly if the laborer has a widely reported net worth of $150 million.
At the time of Gaga’s purchase, oddities on the estate included not one but two recording studios — she told Stern that the “entire basement level” was nothing but recording equipment. One of those studios was dubbed by Zappa as his “Utility Muffin Research Kitchen”; Gaga recorded portions of her 2020 “Chromatica” album in said kitchen. There’s also a two-story art gallery, plus porthole windows salvaged from vintage submarines, a greenhouse, rooftop tennis court, lush gardens and a tree-shaded swimming pool.
Whenever she moves into the Zappa estate, Jagger won’t have far to schlep her belongings. She already lives in the Hollywood Hills, and her current $2.5 million home is only a five-minute drive away. Like the Zappa-Gaga property, those “starter” digs are also Tudor in architectural style.
Gaga’s primary residence remains a titanic estate compound in Malibu, Calif., a multi-acre property with panoramic ocean views and equestrian facilities. The New York-bred singer, 35, bought that place back in 2014 for $22.5 million.
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