Just before her recent announcement that she would be “dropping a series of digital art pieces” that includes a one-off NFT (Non-Fungible Token) of her world-famous cleavage being offered up for sale as “real estate” that allows the auction winner to use the busty digital image as a canvas for art, advertising, company logos and etc., veteran entertainment industry bombshell Carmen Electra put some actual real estate, her home in the Mount Olympus neighborhood above L.A.’s Laurel Canyon, up for grabs at $2.95 million, a tidy profit on the just over $2.1 million she paid a bit more than five years ago.
The singer, dancer and glamour model, who made her television debut on “Soul Train” before she met and made some music in the early 1990s with Prince — it was the late, great purple one who tagged her with her memorable stage name, is best known for her skimpy red carpet outfits, her five Playboy covers, her barely dressed role on “Baywatch,” her tumultuous short-lived late 1998 marriage to Dennis Rodman and her 2.5-year mid-Aughts marriage to Dave Navarro, lead guitarist of the rock band Jane’s Addiction.
Along the way, the sultry pop culture phenom, now 49, wrote the book on how to be sexy — it’s actually called “How to Be Sexy,” performed with the Pussycat Dolls, released a couple handfuls of not very successful singles, popped up in a couple of installments of the “Scary Movie” franchise, hosted the first and only season of the relationship-oriented reality series “Ex Isle,” and was a contestant on “Worst Cooks in America.” There is almost nothing, it seems, Electra won’t do to earn a showbiz buck.
Listed with Heather Albertson and Stephen Hawn of Compass, Electra’s family-sized five-bedroom and five-bath home measures in at almost 3,900 square feet.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com Built in the late 1980s and not committed to any particular architectural style, the two-story seal-grey home features bright white trim work, several arched and bay windows, and a flamboyant pair of fluted Corinthian columns that stand on either side of the front porch.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com A comparison with listing photos from the time of her purchase indicates Electra made few substantial changes to the home. There are still the same dark, nearly black hardwood floors, the same minimalist smooth concrete fireplaces and, in the sparsely furnished living room, the same Balinese-style carved wood swinging bench hung in front of the gigantic arched window opposite a tufted ruby red velvet chesterfield.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com Instead of the usual table and chairs, Electra has a drum set in dining room.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com A spacious glass-walled wine cellar in the dining space between the marble-countered open-plan kitchen and the family room has been converted to what Electra once described to Vogue magazine as a “shoe museum” with dozens of sky-high stilettos hung from the racks instead of rare vintages.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com The home’s five bedrooms and five bathrooms include a main floor staff suite or home office and an over-sized principal bedroom on the second floor that includes a fireplace, extensive closet space and a huge bathroom complete with a dedicated makeup vanity and a soaking tub beneath a glam chandelier.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com The kitchen and family room areas spill out to a long and slender terrace that runs the full width of the house with a stone water feature and some tropical plantings, while an equally sized upper level is all but bare but for the stone balustrade.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com Tax records show Electra previously owed a Beverly Hills home she bought in 2002 for $1.35 million and profitably sold in 2014 for $3.75 million, and she briefly owned another Hollywood Hills home that she picked up over the summer of 2014 for $2.685 and sold at a notable loss almost exactly a year later for $2.35 million.