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Steven Spielberg has been in the movie business for more than 50 years and only recently revealed a little more about himself and how he was formed.

Before the award-winning autobiographical drama The Fabelmans told us little tidbits about the director, Architectural Digest knew that some of his off-screen pursuits included a real love for real estate and luxury vehicles.

The director has bought and sold properties in Malibu, New York City, East Hampton, and Naples, Florida, among other areas.

He once said that “the only difference between redoing the house and making a film is that I paid for it”, speaking about turning his Pacific Palisades estate into his dream home.

It is clear that all the attention to detail that the director is so well-known for onscreen extends into his vast real estate portfolio, which includes a mega yacht, don’t doubt.

We’re taking a look at all the places he’s called home:

Spielberg called an East Hampton compound home in and around 1983, with an apartment in Manhattan, too, that he would go to when he got tired of his 3,9 acres of Hampton’s lushness.

In 1991, Spielberg constructed an additional cedar-shingle modern guesthouse on the property (below) and then later added yet another guesthouse after purchasing more acres to boot:

This is a view of the main house from inside the guesthouse at Spielberg’s East Hampton compound:

The Jurassic World director still owns this property.

Moving on to his darling Manhattan apartment located in the San Remo building, which is apparently one of the most expensive and coveted apartment co-ops in the world:

Spielberg owns a pad on the 17th floor of the prewar Beaux Arts building designed by Emery Roth, measuring 557 square metres and overlooking Central Park West.

He has shared the building with the likes of Steve Jobs, Bono, Diane Keaton, Bruce Willis, Mary Tyler Moore, and Tiger Woods.

Besides a bachelor pad in Coldwater Canyon and a beach house in Malibu, the man also purchased a five-bedroom, six-bathroom Pacific Palisades property that would become his primary residence:

“It was like going to Hawaii and finding the perfect cove,” he told AD of the residence’s prime location. The Mediterranean-style mansion, which was previously owned by Cary Grant and David O. Selznick, among other Hollywood luminaries, was already impressive, but Spielberg took it upon himself to further reimagine parts of the property, enlisting the help of architect Harry Newman.

He doubled its size to 20,000 square feet; created a hobbit-themed TV room with mushroom-shaped windows, a retractable television screen, and curved walls; and installed a 14,000-gallon curved aquarium in the primary bathroom.

A vineyard was also added to the property in 2013.

Estimated to be worth upwards of $100 million by the website Celebrity Net Worth, the director and his current wife, Kate Capshaw, still consider this home their primary residence.

He also has two Malibu properties, one a mega-compound that he bought for $3,375 million, and the other for $3,2 million:

Spielberg and Capshaw put the sprawling residence up for rent in 2013, asking $125,000 a month (later, it rose to $150,000 a month) before finally selling it in an off-market deal for $26 million in 2015.

Solid.

Next, he expanded his East Hampton holdings with the purchase of a 1900s home for $20 million, which he then sold for $21,25 million in 2014.

The land is not enough for someone with such vision and funds, so Speilberg took to the seas with his 85-metre mega-yacht he named Seven Seas after his seven children and his wife.

The oceanic behemoth, built by Netherlands-based company Oceano (same as Jeff Bezos), featured nine staterooms, four decks, a swimming pool, multiple spas, full cinema, and a helipad.

Spielberg listed Seven Seas for $160 million in the spring of 2021 and sold it several months later for a reported $150 million, to billionaire steel baron Barry Zekelman who renamed it Man of Steel.

Oh, how those big blockbusters pay.

[source:architecturaldigest]