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Britney's new mansion in Thousand Oaks
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Originally posted by Real Estate
That famously peripatetic pop star Britney Spears plans to pack up the children and, once again, move mansions, this time to an exclusive, guard-gated golf community in the upscale and exurban outpost of Thousand Oaks, CA, about 35 miles northwest of Hollywood. The Thousand Oaks property was built in 2004, stands two stories tall, and measures 10,567 square feet with a total of 5 bedrooms, 6.5 bathrooms, 4 fireplaces, garage space for 7 cars, and one elegant 8-sided foyer with inlaid marble floor, arched display niches, an unholy cacophony of doorway styles, and a wrought iron railing-ringed oculus that exposes the lower level foyer to the hand-painted geometric mural that spans the ceiling of the upper level gallery. The property in question was on the open market until October this year with an asking price of $8,900,000.
Other rich and high profile residents/property owners at the Sherwood Country Club Estates include financier William Dallas, who, among other things, manages some of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's vast fortune, and tennis ace Pete Sampras' (who custom-built a 16,177 square foot lightly contemporary compound on a private knoll that he quickly flipped back on the market almost two years ago.) As of today, the Sampras' compound-like property remains on the market with a hugely reduced number, that still makes it more expensive than the next most expensive house on the open market inside the gates of the Sherwood Country Club Estates. The children may recall that some years ago professional baseball player turned dilettante entrepreneur spent to buy one of the golf communities' largest and most expensive estates from former pro puck pusher Wayne Gretzky, and subsequently lost it down the jagged-toothed hatch of foreclosure. Outside the manned and secured gates of the Sherwood Country Club, some of the area's other name-brand property owners include comedian/actor/singer Jamie Foxx, who owns 40-plus rural acres and a hill-top mega-mansion a few miles away, and Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi, who own a 26-acre equestrian facility in nearby Hidden Valley they've periodically had on the open market this year.
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