Pro football heiress Lisa DeBartolo and her musician husband Don Miggs are on the move, making several shuffles within their cross-country portfolio of multimillion-dollar homes over the last few years. Tax records show that just over a year ago, the creatively inclined couple sold a 16,000-square-foot Tampa mansion for $6.4 million and some months before that, sold a $7 million place in L.A.’s artsy Laurel Canyon and plunked down a tad more than $5.2 million on a 14,000-square-foot home in a swanky gated enclave in Nashville.
The bi-coastal pair is now looking to sell the larger of the two homes they own that are tucked deep into the upper reaches of L.A.’s posh Stone Canyon, almost 1.5 miles beyond the Hotel Bel-Air. The $15.9 million price tag is a chunk below the initial $17 million ask but still a substantial profit on the slightly more than the $13.6 million paid for the family-sized mansion only about two and a half years ago.
Available via Elisabeth Halsted at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties, marketing material describes the nearly 9,400-square-foot home (and its two-story detached guest house) as a “masterfully-crafted, new traditional-modern” home. All but hidden behind clouds of foliage and security gates, the stately, buff-colored stone and stucco simplicity that defines the front of the home gives way to a more casual wood-paneled rear façade lined with deep verandas on both floors. There are six en-suite bedrooms and seven and a half bathrooms dispersed throughout the main residence and the guest house.
Decorated by Willa Ford in a manner that is both sumptuous and comfortably livable, the home offers impressive formal living and dining spaces along with a snazzy kitchen open to a family room that spills out to the back yard though numerous glass sliders. There’s also a library/office, a screening room with a cozy bouclé sofa, and a utilitarian catering kitchen for larger events and making a culinary mess.
Notched into a pleasantly rustic, thickly treed slope, the double-stacked verandas that line the rear of the home overlook an evergreen expanse of faux-turf that butts against a rectangular swimming pool and zero-edge spill-over spa. At one end of the pool is an outdoor kitchen and pizza oven, along with an open-air dining cabana with surround sound; at the other is a sport court alongside the two-story guesthouse, complete with an indoor-outdoor gym on the ground floor.
Among the home’s high-tech highlights are the infrared heaters in the al-fresco dining cabana, a whole-house water filtration system and a house-wide microbial air purifying system.
Tax records indicate DeBartolo and Miggs also own a substantially smaller nearby home that was scooped in the fall of 2020 for almost $3 million. Not known to be currently for sale, it has undergone a comprehensive renovation over the last couple of years.
DeBartolo is CEO of her family’s philanthropic foundation — her father is billionaire businessman Edward DeBartolo Jr., who owned the San Francisco 49ers during a particularly winning period for the team (1977-2000) — while, in addition to owning the Lala Mansion recording studios in Los Angeles and Nashville, Miggs fronts the band Whole Damn Mess.
