The celebrity couple bought the 12-bedroom home for £48.7 million last summer, but its public listing has rumours swirling
India Block12 July 2024
Just last summer Homes & Property reported that Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck had settled on their dream home after nearly a year of house hunting.
But now the 12-bedroom 24-bathroom mansion in Beverly Hills is back on the market for £52.5 million ($68 million).
If it makes its asking price, they would turn a £3.8 million profit, although it is unknown how much the extensive renovations recently undertaken by the couple cost..
Celebrity gossip site TMZ hinted that the couple had previously engaged a private broker, perhaps looking for a quiet off-market sale. But now the property has been publicly listed with Santiago Arana of The Agency.
The house has been renovated since the couple bought it last year
“Recently renovated with the highest level of quality within the last four months and nestled in one of Beverly Hills’s most exclusive and secure enclaves lies the magnificent Crestview Manor,” reads the estate agents’ blurb.
“Perched atop a five-acre promontory, this newly rebuilt and expanded masterpiece offers breathtaking views of the surrounding mountains, creating a serene backdrop for its unparalleled amenities.”
Amenities include a pool and a pickleball court
The 38,000 square foot mega mansion does indeed have a truly grand amount of amenities, including a pickleball court, basketball court, boxing ring, infinity pool, bar and parking space for a whopping 80 vehicles. Lopez is known for her love of a home that is spacious enough to entertain, having previously sold a 4,000 square foot New York apartment because it was “too small” to host family and friends.
As befitting of its A-list residents, “privacy and security are unrivalled” for this house on a private gated road, with double gates and a two-bedroom guardhouse for 24-hour surveillance.
The listing of the couple’s home has fanned the flames of divorce rumours.
The mega-mansion has top levels of security, naturally
Lopez and Affleck have a long history together, having first dated in the early Noughties following Lopez’s divorce from her second husband Cris Judd. Affleck even had a cameo appearance in J-Lo’s ‘Jenny From the Block’ music video, which nodded to the paparazzi’s obsession with the pair.
Although they were engaged by the end of 2002, two years later they broke off the engagement. But in 2021 the pair appeared to re-kindle their relationship, and in July 2022 they married each other in Las Vegas. Affleck once again had a walk-on role in Lopez’s recent film ‘This is Me… Now’, which detailed the singer’s career and struggle with a self-described “love addiction”.
Rumours of a divorce have dogged the couple for months, and they are reportedly searching for separate properties.
Affleck previously sold his home in Pacific Palisades in October 2022 for £22.8 million ($28.5 million), while Lopez’s Bel Air mansion sold for a reported £26.2 million ($34 million) in October 2023.
