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Add Texture to GoogleMadonna does not appear anywhere in the legal documents. The new owner of 2000 De Mille Drive is an anonymous limited liability company formed by a Hollywood attorney specializing in entertainment law. The street name reveals more about the house than the property records do about its buyer: Cecil B. DeMille lived there from 1916 until his death in 1959. The sale was finalized on September 24, 2026, for $24,750,000, or approximately 22.5 million euros. The seller is Angelina Jolie. The presumed buyer is the singer, whose name emerged in the days that followed, though no official document has confirmed it.
A Buyer Who Doesn’t Sign
First, we must clarify what is known and what is not. The deed is registered in the name of an LLC, and this arrangement serves its purpose perfectly: the beneficial owner does not appear on any public document. Rumors that Madonna is the buyer are circulating widely in the United States. However, these rumors are based neither on a deed nor on a statement from those involved.
Spokespersons for Madonna and Angelina Jolie have made no comment. Nor have the real estate agents handling the sale. The only detail put forward to link the singer to this address is a private virtual tour of the property she allegedly took in August 2026. This information itself comes from unidentified sources close to the matter and has not been verified by anyone. As things stand, Madonna therefore remains the alleged buyer of a house whose official owner remains anonymous.
This air of mystery suits the address well. You enter through a gated, guarded enclave, and the separate garage houses its own security post. The secrecy begins right here at the gate.
Five million less than expected
The property was listed in May 2026 at a price of $29,850,000, approximately 27.1 million euros. Four months later, it sold for $5.1 million less—nearly 17% below the asking price. Ernie Carswell of Sotheby’s International Realty and Jon Grauman of Resident Group handled the sale.
The discount makes sense when viewed in light of the price paid by Angelina Jolie. In June 2017, the actress had purchased the estate for $24,500,000, approximately 22.3 million euros. Nine years later, she is selling it for $250,000 more. This difference is nominal: it does not account for transaction fees, potential renovations, or inflation. The asking price indicated a net gain. The final closing brought the transaction nearly to break-even.
Neither party has explained the discrepancy between the May goal and the September reality. Nor are the reasons known that led Angelina Jolie to part with the house.
A Prime Location in a Gated Community
The estate occupies the highest point of Laughlin Park, a gated and secure residential enclave in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles. The property covers 2.1 acres, or approximately 8,500 square meters. From this vantage point, the view stretches across the Hollywood Hills to the Griffith Observatory.
The main house offers approximately 11,000 square feet of living space—just over 1,000 square meters—divided among six bedrooms and ten bathrooms. The proportions are telling: nearly two bathrooms per bedroom, a layout designed for entertaining. A library and a climate-controlled wine cellar round out the main residence.
Surrounding the property, the grounds are organized like a small private village. A detached guest house provides secluded accommodations for guests. The pool pavilion houses a gym converted into a fitness studio. A tea pavilion adds a more contemplative touch. The separate garage, with its security station, rounds out the layout.
The House That DeMille Doubled
The heart of the estate is a Beaux-Arts-style villa designed by architect B. Cooper Corbett and built around 1913. It is therefore over a century old, and most of its history is associated with a single name.
Cecil B. DeMille bought it in 1916 for $27,893. Four years later, he purchased the neighboring house, where Charlie Chaplin had once lived. He connected the two buildings with a glass-enclosed gallery. The current estate is the result of this move: two movie stars’ homes merged into a single property by one of the men who built Hollywood.
DeMille lived there until his death in 1959. The house then remained in his family until the late 1980s. Few properties in Los Angeles have remained in the same hands for so long. This one even gave its name to the street that runs alongside it.
Details regarding the period between the heirs’ departure and Angelina Jolie’s arrival in 2017 were not made public at the time of this sale. It is also unclear what renovations have been made since DeMille’s time. The amenities described today—such as the fitness studio and the climate-controlled wine cellar—are those of a contemporary home housed within a 1913 structure.
Celebrities and a Prestigious Address
The estate embodies a sense of continuity. A filmmaker, an actress, perhaps a singer: the house passes from one figure in the entertainment world to another. The way celebrity is lived out, however, has changed. DeMille had a street named after him. His successors ensure that their names do not appear on any documents.
The numbers sum up this shift. In 1916, the villa cost $27,893. On September 24, 2026, it took nearly nine hundred times that amount to become the owner, through a company whose beneficiary remains, officially, unknown.
Until a representative of Madonna speaks out and a document bearing her name is produced, the question will remain open. The address, however, is known: 2000 De Mille Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90027.