Monday, November 5, 2007

Will Farrell Moves Into Ellen's House


BUYER: Will Ferrell
SELLER: Ellen Degeneres
LOCATION: Woodstock Road, Los Angeles, CA
PRICE: $9,900,000 (list)
SIZE: 4,769 square feet, 4 bedrooms 4.5 bathrooms (total)
DESCRIPTION: Sensational private gated compound w/ idyllic country fell minutes from the strip. 3 parcels with about 103,986 sq. ft. (over 2.25 acres). Gorgeous stylish main house w/ lge public rooms, exceptional master suite, 2nd bed suite & media room. Poolhse has 2 good rooms & bath + another hse, separate lot used as the ultimate recreation structure. Vast botanical gardens, huge rolling lawns + state-of-the-art surveillance security.

PLEASE NOTE: Your Mama is inundated with chatter box kinfolk and we're having a tough time finding 20 minutes to string together to clear our mind and write something coherent, let alone cough up something clever. So give Your Mama a break today children, because we're at the end of our ever lovin' rope and we're about to let go.

YOUR MAMAS NOTES: The other day Your Mama was yakking with our very funny and charming cohort and researcher Lucy Spillerguts. In the course of our frenzied conversation, Ellen Degeneres' one time 4-property compound up on Woodstock Road and Woodrow Willson Drive in the Hollywood Hills came up. In the shallow world of celebrity real estate, it's nearly impossible not to always be talking about the constantly on the move talk show queen and her lovely ladee lover Portia Di Rossi. Lawhdy children, it's practically a full time damn job for Your Mama to keep track of these always packing and unpacking laydees. It's a damn miracle those two know which direction to point their auto-mo-beel after a long night at Girl Bar.

Everyone knows that Miz Degeneres sold "The Treehouse," one of her not particularly child friendly properties on Woodrow Wilson Drive, to Brokeback Mountain hottie Health Ledger and his new mommy wifey Michelle Williams. We don't mean to be cold hearted, but now that that good looking couple is headed for the dee-vorce court, Your Mama wonders if their West Coast crib will be hitting the market soon.

The other Woodrow Wilson Drive property was recently sold to young and big chested soap stud Adrian Bellani, a sale which Your Mama mentioned in another of our many, many discussions about property owned or once owned by Miz D.

But Your Mama long wondered who bought the gorgeous low slung house on Woodstock Road, where Miz Ellen actually lived with her previous ladee friend, photographer Alexandra Hedison. (This was after the "now she is now she isn't a lezbeeun" Anne Heche debacle.)

Well don't you know that Lucy Spillerguts, a virtual encyclopedia of celebrity real estate deals, was able to tell Your Mama that the Woodstock Road residence was purchased in March of 2006 by comedy sensation Will Ferrell. Now babies, we like Will Ferrell. He's funny in a dumb ass sort of way, and we can do dumb ass sometimes. But someone needs to tell that man to stop running around in his cheap underwear. One day he's going to show up on a talk show in his skid marked underpants and it's just not going to be very funny.

Anyhoo, Your Mama does not know what Mister Ferrell payed for Ellen's house of high design on Woodstock Road, but the place was listed at $9,900,000. So you know whatever huge amount he paid, it was more than most of you will see in two or three lifetimes. The property consists of a sprawling 1940s house on three lots totaling nearly 2.25 acres. In addition to the simply shaped swimming pool and pool house, there is also a "recreation house" which includes a large screened porch area and a larger enclosed area with a pool table. The lesbians just love to play pool don't they? Also on the secluded and serene property is a small screened shack for getting away from it all...well, away from everything but phone lines. Note the multi-line telephone which is useful for calling the house gurl to bring you some green tea.

According to property records, Miz D. purchased this multi parcel property in March of 2003 for an undisclosed sum of money. Interestingly, she bought the house from Will and Grace co-creator Max Mutchnick, who happens to be the very same gentleman from whom she and the lovely Portia bought their most recent residence, a huge renovated house in Beverly Hills which Your Mama hears they bought for between $26-$30,000,000. We also hear they didn't use any real estate brokers on the deal. )Gasps heard all around the Platinum Triangle.) We can't yet confirm the purchase price or the lack of brokers, but, it is what we hear from one of our many very well connected sources.

Previous to Miz Degeneres and Mister Mutchnick, the Woodstock Road house was owned by Emmy winning screenwriter Jerry Belson (Tracey Takes On..., Love American Style, The Dick Van Dyke Show), so the house has a long history of Hollywood movers and shakers living up between its well renovated walls.

Your Mama has discussed so many properties owned or sold by Miz D. that we simply can't be bothered to pick apart this particular property. Suffice to say we L.O.V.E. this house and would sell our cuzzin's Bible beating brats for that dressing room.

Now we got to git so that we can entertain the familial troops. Be nice to the old people.

24 comments:

Anonymous said...

Simply stunning.

so_chic_darling said...

Oh Mama thanks so much,and thanks to Ms Spillerguts too she sounds like the kind of Broad we love!
This is a dream house,what more can you say.

Anonymous said...

LESBIAN CHIC

Anonymous said...

I'm not big on the weird-additions-to-old-ranch-house look.

Anonymous said...

i respectfully disagree, skidmarked underpants are funny.

Anonymous said...

Oh Mama, you wouldn't happen to know the name of the architect that Ellen uses? All her properties are very simlar so I would imagine it's the same person / firm - Any L.A residents know of her interior design team also? I must have their conatct details - Thanks.

Anonymous said...

Pussy power

Anonymous said...

she really does love to move any what the new home like mama ..dont say you dont know we all no you do?

Anonymous said...

i love ellens homes so shes not at zorda drive anymore then ?

Anonymous said...

she is still at zorada because i saw her on nichols canyon rd the other day

Anonymous said...

No look she's over there

Anonymous said...

I LOVE it too Mama. That's all. Ms. D can do no wrong with houses.

. said...

Have fun with your peeps, Mama.
Two things:
1. Caveman, I think Mama thinks referencing skid marks is indelicate and so do I. The humor dividend is very meager.
2. The interior of this house looks very yachty and not in a good way. Just because you're a lesbian doesn't mean you can't have a little softness, Ellen. Please, dear, this looks like a cowboy bunkhouse. I'm going to hear from So_Chic about this, sorry, dear but you know I'm a closeted cabbage rose lover. Shhh!

. said...

I love the lavendar garden in the lower set of photos. I'm trying.

Anonymous said...

The lot looks nice, but as far as the decor goes.... it looks cold and sparse (not that there's anything wrong with that).

Anonymous said...

Aunt Mary, with all due respect, the original "skid marks" comment is Mama's in her story. It may offend your sensitive eyes but obviously Mama is less sensitive if she wrote it in the first place.

. said...

Anon 12:37 honey, I think Mama thinks "s... m...." has lost its currency as cutting edge humor. My, my, chile, lighten up. We're just trying to have some fun with that sweet man, who we adore, Caveman. Sideways smiley faces all around.

Anonymous said...

Skid marks and farts are funny.

Anonymous said...

You can tell from the empty closet that Ellen had already moved when the photos were taken. I think the decor might be staging as the house was on the market a long time before Mr. Skidmarks bought it.

Anonymous said...

i got aunt mary to say "skidmarks", told you it was funny.

Anonymous said...

I pity the scrub woman that has to wash out Mary's skidmarks

Anonymous said...

ellen hasn't lived in this house for years. she moved into the zorada house in nov. 05, and she moved out in september. when the whole iggy mess was going on she said that she was in the middle of a move when they got iggy, and u can see her new house in her "getting ready for the emmy's" video. info on that house still isn't up here, but someone did post the address in one of the comment sections. it's very nice. anyway, just wanted to clear some thangs up!

Anonymous said...

at least ,not the same old-geezer 18th century horse buggy pretension style home

Anonymous said...

anyone knows if michelle Williams still living there, has a house here somewhere but dont really know which one... Can someone tell me? Thanks.