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Inside Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s US$88 million Bel Air family home: the billionaire power couple splashed out on the 30,000 sq ft mansion complete with 4 pools, a cinema – and bulletproof windows
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- The music legends were renting for three years, including their US$400,000-a-month Malibu home where Beyoncé had twins Rumi and Sir, but have also lived in New Orleans and Holmby Hills
- They finally found their dream home in Bel Air in 2017, spent a whopping US$800,000 on renovations – and are rumoured to have a door covered in lizard skin
Jay-Z and Beyoncé are world-renowned musical legends with talent and fortune in equal measures. The couple enjoys a combined net worth of US$1.9 billion, per Cosmopolitan, and lives the dream life. From holidaying in superyachts and performing in packed arenas to dishing out chartbuster after chartbuster, they do it all with élan.
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Among their many accomplishments (Jay-Z became the first hip-hop billionaire, and Beyoncé is worth US$500 million, per Celebrity Net Worth), their dream home is one worth mentioning.
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It’s a testimony to what billionaires dream about and a befitting abode for music royalty.
Let’s take a closer look …
Jay-Z and Beyoncé took three years to find their home
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Call them perfectionists or difficult to impress, but the 53-year-old record executive and his 41-year-old American singer wife spent no less than three years looking for their dream home. They lived in a string of ultra-expensive rentals till they found and zeroed in on their US$88 million newly-built Bel Air estate, per CNBC.
The wealthy couple once lived in a 13,000 sq ft home in New Orleans, which was once a Presbyterian church, with towering 10-metre (26-foot) ceilings and vast windows, according to Love Property.
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This was followed by a breathtaking coastal villa rented on the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu. The couple welcomed their twins, Rumi and Sir, at this incredible estate flaunting 15 bedrooms and 10 bathrooms, and spent nearly US$400,000 a month for the privilege, reports the same source.