Ellen DeGeneres is likely laughing all the way to the bank after unloading her sprawling California estate for a massive price tag. According to property records ..
. obtained by the Wall Street Journal ..
. the TV personality and her wife, Portia de Rossi , have sold their 10-acre estate in Santa Barbara County for a whopping $96 million. The couple scooped up the home for $70 million back in 2022, and have reportedly sold it to mining magnate Robert Friedland .
The businessman is set to call the Tuscan-style mansion in Carpinteria home ...
which boasts 9,000 square feet of living space, 5 bedrooms, 8 bathrooms, hardwood floors, stone archways, walk-in closets, access to a private beach and more luxurious amenities. We don't know how much dough Ellen put into the home since buying it, but the $96 mil price tag probably means she's making a tidy profit -- which she's already investing into a new property. Ellen and Robert have done a home swap of sorts .
.. according to WSJ, she's buying back a Santa Barbara home she'd previously sold to him earlier this year.
She reportedly paid $32 mil for the home, which was built in 1919 and sits on 8 acres. Ellen and Portia must have big plans for the property ..
. they also snapped up a 3-acre lot next door for $6 million, so we sense a major home renovation in their future. Santa Barbara County contractors gotta love Ellen!.
