Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck have been wishy-washy in terms of discovering their good house.
Final month, the newlyweds were in escrow for a $34.5 million California house in prosperous Pacific Palisades. However on the final second, they pulled out of shopping for it.
As an alternative, it appears to be like like they could have lastly settled on prime actual property from one of the crucial outstanding households in Los Angeles.
Owned by Gregory Milken — one of many metropolis’s wealthiest residents — alongside along with his spouse, EJ, the 1.13-acre property in Pacific Palisades listed not even per week in the past earlier than the couple scooped it up.
Hitting the marketplace for $64 million, Gregory, EJ and their 5 youngsters have lived within the house for greater than a decade, buying the property again in 2009 for $14.5 million.
Gregory’s father, Michael Milken, was one in every of Wall Road’s strongest financiers through the Nineteen Eighties — and gained distinction for the event of high-yield bonds, generally referred to as “junk bonds.”
Made up of six bedrooms and 10 baths, the property spans a colossal 13,000 sq. toes and comes with a 3,000-square-foot two-bedroom, four-bathroom visitor home.
Options embrace two research, a media room, an expansive sport room that opens out to the yard, two playrooms, an expansive kitchen and a household room.
Moreover, there’s an 800-square-foot health club for Lopez to get her sweat on.
The grounds function a protracted driveway that opens to a big motor courtroom, the itemizing says.
Outside facilities features a resort-style pool and spa, and a hearth function.
Fred Bernstein with Westside Property Company holds the itemizing.
Lopez, 53, and Affleck, 50, have been touring properties for the reason that summer of 2021. Final March, they had been also in contract to purchase a $50 million mansion earlier than in the end deciding in opposition to it.
In the meantime, Lopez has already found a buyer for her French-style, nine-bedroom Bel-Air property of six years that she listed for $42.5 million final month.
