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A Look at Jay Z and Beyoncé’s New $90 Million Bel-Air Mansion
Good news, folks: Jay Z and Beyoncé, who were previously renting a Malibu house (monthly rent: $400,000 per month) have finally scraped up enough cash to become L.A. homeowners! They’ve snagged a nice little 30,000-square-foot house in Bel Air for a reported $90 million.
Images are scarce as the architect has pulled the photos from his website, presumably at the couple’s request. We were only able to find a couple of stills and a bunch of renderings scattered around the internet. So let’s get into it.
This is the entryway. The house has room for 15 cars, but we all know how this will end up, given human nature: Jay Z will eventually buy a 16th car and Beyoncé will yell at him to get it out of the driveway because he’s blocking one of her eight cars in.
The house has rather a lot of swimming pools, four to be exact.
This amount of swimming pools is fortuitous; no matter where Jay Z is in the house, he’s just steps away from playing his favorite game, “Marco Polo,” when he needs to blow off some steam.
At least one of the pools is so large that I’m surprised the architect didn’t bisect it with a walkable span. I guess Jay-Z’s got 99 problems but a bridge ain’t one.
In the rendering below we can see a fenceless tennis court. Since it is sited on a hillside, it would be fun to see the servants tasked with continually chasing down the tennis balls that are hit out of bounds.
Sadly, in real life we can see they’ve converted the tennis court to a basketball court bordered by a wall.
Instead of fetching balls, however, servants can be made to work up a sweat by ordering them to use the exercise machines below the swimming pool on the left, for lengths of time at Jay Z and Bey’s discretion.
Water cascades down the glass walls in the living room, creating the impression that one is behind a waterfall. This allows the couple to habitually re-enact their favorite scene from “Last of the Mohicans.”
This rather Spartan, railing-less space is listed as the Master Bedroom. However, the house has eight bedrooms, so it’s not clear if this is the one that Jay Z and Bey sleep in, or if this is merely the one that they store their master recordings in. Alternatively, it’s possible that this is the bedroom Master P sleeps in when he visits them.
We were unable to locate images of the built-in recording studio, but we did find this shot of his-and-hers saunas. That thing in the center of the floor is either a hot tub or a dunking pool into which either Jay Z or Bey, depending on who’s closer, can push any sound engineer whose work they find unsatisfactory.
There are a few more photos of the house here, but I didn’t include them because frankly I couldn’t think up captions for them.
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