These are the Houses that Cher Built

Since it’s my birthday, can someone buy me a $45 million, 14,000-square foot 1992 Italian Renaissance-style villa in Malibu California? I could use the 1.7 acres of a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean to meditate.

The Listing agent is Robert Kass, of Hilton & Hyland, an affiliate of Christie’s Great Estates and he says, “The décor is now a lighter, more beach-resort style.” So it’s decorated to sell, I’m thinking.  Yes, methinks Cher has left the building.

I wasn’t really looking for a three-story house with six bedrooms, seven bathrooms, theater, gym, tennis courts, an infinity pool and multiple verandas – although I can see where multiple verandas might come in handy if I run for president of Argentina or something. I can give speeches from them and wave to my peoples.

There’s also a guest house and as you know, you can’t sell a house in LA without a guest house in the back, even if you live on a hot-dog-stand sized lot. Extra rental income see.

For the full article, see The Wall Street Journal. The paper also reminds us that in 2006 Cher sold a bayfront house in Key Biscayne, Fla., for $8.8 million. And I can’t read that and not start singing those lines from “Pirate” on the Cherished album. It took me years to figure out Cher was singing Biscayne Bay.

A few years ago, a friend and I were discussing those odd yet ubiquitous pixilated pictures The Wall Street Journal uses for stories about people.

And now Cher has one!