Power couple/new parents Beyoncé and Jay Z and their family have reportedly taken up residence in a decadent Malibu estate known as La Villa Contenta.
Trulia and Variety say the world-famous couple and their growing family are renting the property, which has listed rates of $400,000 per month—the summertime premium for the estate. (In the colder months, it rents for a mere $350,000).
The 6.3-acre spread has been for sale for several years, and is concurrently listed for a heart-stopping $54.5 million. It’s hidden behind a large gate and towering hedge, and offers unobstructed views of the ocean.
The main residence is an explosion of all the most decadent finishes and decor possible: a foyer with hand-laid mosaic tiles, a dining room with a carved limestone ceiling and matching eighteenth century crystal and amethyst chandeliers, a marble fireplace by Hermes in the library.
The property also features a six-bedroom guest house, a greenhouse—one of the largest private greenhouses in the state, the listing copy claims—and an elaborate building devoted to housing the estate’s indoor pool, which is tiled with famed Italian Murano glass.
Beyoncé and Jay Z had previously rented homes in Holmby Hills and in Beverly Hills, but this coastal rental is their most expensive by far.
Rumors have circulated that the couple bid on a couple of houses in Los Angeles’s high-end neighborhoods (Bel Air, Beverly Hills), but they have yet to make a purchase.
- Beyonce and Jay-Z Bringing Twins Home to Swank $400,000 a Month Malibu Rental [Trulia]
- Jay Z and Beyoncé Shacking Up For the Summer in Epic Malibu Compound [Variety]
- LA’s most expensive rentals [Curbed LA]
Comments
While the rest of the world starves, this "power couple" idiotically burns $400,000 a month to eat, sleep, poop, and slob around someone else’s property. $400,000 a month … nice job guys.
By chezwazzz on 06.28.17 10:04am
Couldn’t someone in Bangladesh or Haiti look at some aspect of your spending and have the same complaint? At the same time wouldn’t Carlos Slim and Jeff Bezos consider this a modest 4th or 5th home? From what I understand Mr. Carter and Ms. Knowles have earned their money legally (well, at least the vast majority of it in Mr. Carter’s case). Are they not therefore entitled as free human beings to spend their estimated $1.16 billion as they damn well please? In the words of that great philosopher YG, "Why you always hatin’?"
By DJCRoy on 06.28.17 11:42am
If selling your soul and promoting the Illuminati is making it, count me Out. http://www.thedailybeast.com/how-the-illuminati-stole-the-mind-soul-and-body-of-hip-hop even the Huff has a piece: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/reductress/beyonce-illuminati_b_4470601.html
By LeBasque on 06.28.17 8:42pm
Brilliant sleuthing mate "Reductress.com, the one and only fake women’s news magazine"
By BH90008 on 06.29.17 10:57am
Well it’s on HuffPost so that makes sense. Fake news abound
By LeBasque on 06.29.17 2:00pm
excess, excess, excess. just so gross. i’m with you chez.
By cicinla on 06.28.17 5:05pm
"If you grew up with holes in your zapatos, you’d celebrate the minute you was havin’ dough"
Excess? Gross? My guess is that neither of you have ever walked even 10 yards in this man’s shoes, but you feel free to pass judgment nonetheless. The irony though, is that even though you choose to sit on a mighty high horse, you still have to look way up to see Jay & B.
By DJCRoy on 06.28.17 5:50pm
Bernie Bro spotted.
"I don’t care how you earned your money, it’s not yours to spend!"
By GuyOnLACurbed on 06.29.17 1:15pm
its not even on the water
By Dull Normal on 06.28.17 11:48am
Exactly, no beach access, so what’s the big deal?
By b42356 on 06.28.17 12:03pm
oh those lucky landlords! probably bought it decades ago, now just banking cash. Maybe Bea’ll even throw in a signed CD now and then…
By GordonScott on 06.28.17 4:04pm
I have no issue with people spending their money however they choose. We all make the right choice for ourselves. However, it seems at some point we have to say this amount of money is just silly.
By Flprepster55 on 06.28.17 5:48pm
Funny, we celebrate Vanderbilt and his Biltmore estate, Hearst and his Castle, Doheny and his mansions, this and that old rich person and their private art collections, but the Carters want to take a tiny portion of their hard-earned wealth and live luxuriously for a few months and it’s a problem for some folks. SMDH.
By DJCRoy on 06.28.17 6:08pm
Apparently, this only happens in L.A.!
By WEA on 06.28.17 6:52pm
Vanderbilt didn’t rent Biltmore. He built it from scratch. He employed architects, craftsmen, laborers, Frederick Law Olmstead. And now the estate is a massive tourist draw for Ashville. The same goes for Hearst. The Carters, not so much.
By enter ranting on 06.29.17 2:02pm
I wonder who the historic version of you was who furiously penned letters to the editor about how Vanderbilt’s Biltmore was "too big and out of character" for the neighborhood.
By disqusted on 06.29.17 3:41pm
How droll – trying to conflate development in Los Angeles in 2017 with the construction of an estate in an undeveloped North Carolina forest in 1889. Relevant comparison and impeccable satire! Boy, nothing gets past you!
By enter ranting on 06.30.17 2:06pm
A couple business discussions in the living room and that $400k/mo becomes a write off.
By GuyOnLACurbed on 06.29.17 1:20pm