Yes, Andy Samberg Really Lives in This Mindblowing Moorish Palace
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There's a reason why it's so appealing to click that little "Sort: From High to Low" price range button to view the monstrosity of mansions that come up in select cities as you scroll for houses on Zillow (as us home lovers so often do). It's fun to get the up close and personal view into multi-millionaires lives and soon-to-be homes, which is part of why celebrity houses are so exhilarating to look through. When Emily Ratajkowski posted some snaps of her bedroom, fans were surprisingly disappointed in her lack of decor. And when Drew Barrymore posted her messy bedroom tour, fans were happy to discover the actress was even more relatable than previously thought. But sometimes we're gifted a gem of a celebrity home that takes our breath away. Case and point, Andy Samberg and Joanna Newsom's Moorish mansion.
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joanna newsom & andy samberg's house pic.twitter.com/z95v7dIVTL— Letícia (@yxakirves) December 6, 2023
Our latest celebrity home obsession all started with a tweet from X user @yxakirves, which shared photos of Moorcrest estate, a gorgeous, ivy-covered mansion previously inhabited by Charlie Chaplin and Mary Astor. The post was simple, only stating the name of the home and that Samberg and Newsom currently own it, but the comments came flooding in. Some love it, some hate it, but one person in the replies captured the energy of the post perfectly: "Running circles around those beige squares every other celebrity lives in (I’m broke but rich in opinion)." No matter your thoughts on the home, you can't deny that it's interesting!
Samberg and Newsom married in 2013 and bought the mansion a year later. According to Curbed Los Angeles, the couple purchased the 1920s property, designed by female architect Marie Russak Hotchener, for $6.25 million. The Beachwood Canyon home has four bedrooms and six bathrooms and—at least in 2014—was decorated with vibrant jewel-tones and Moorish details. It has an interesting history, having been one of Hotchener's creations in the Krotona Colony, "a group within the Theosophist Society that tried for about a decade to build a utopian community in Beachwood Canyon," reports Curbed Los Angeles.
Unfortunately, many of the photos of Moorcrest seem to have been wiped from the internet, and thanks to Samberg's and Newsom's lack of social media presence (kudos to them), there don't appear to be any recent photos of the estate. Let's just hope that one day, the duo decides to randomly post a whole home tour with everything they've updated!
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