Worth: $13.5 MillionJay Leno spent $13.5 million on this lavish, oceanfront mansion in Newport in 2017. The estate was built in the 1930s and was known as Terre Mare. It was originally designed for Verner Zevola Reed Jr., who became the vice president of Chase Bank. The home has 12 bedrooms, 12 full baths, and three half-baths. It also includes a tennis court, carriage house, and a walled garden.
Today, the house is known as Seafair, and the locals are pumped about having funnyman Jay Leno living amongst them. There’s an amazing outdoor pool that faces the ocean where he can entertain his guests. The house also came along with a six-car garage for, well, at least six of his cars, which is a good thing considering Leno likes to collect them.
Naomi Campbell - Isla Playa de Cleopatra, Turkey
Worth: Undisclosed AmountWhen you’re supermodel Naomi Campbell, you probably expect a whole lot more than a necklace from Tiffany’s for your birthday. Luckily, when she turned 41, Campbell’s billionaire (now ex) boyfriend, Vladislav Dorinon gifted her this unique vacation home - complete with its own, private island.
The house is eco-friendly and designed to look like the eye of Horus from above. The eye is a symbol of royal power, health, and protection. And it’s no wonder some billionaires would have a multi-million-dollar home on a multi-million-dollar island designed to symbolize their power, right? But in its location in the Isla Playa de Cleopatra, it has even more meaning, because its’s fabled that the ancient Egyptian queen and her doomed lover, Antony, laid on the shores of this island, and swam in the waters many years ago. The supermodel and her boyfriend ended up calling things quits, but she got to keep the gift.
Johnny Depp – Little Halls Pond Cay, Bahamas
Worth: $3.6 MillionWith as much time as Johnny Depp spends hanging out in beautiful, tropic areas filming his Pirates of the Caribbean movies, it makes sense that he wouldn’t want to leave. So, he spent $3.6 million on a 45-acre island in the Bahamas. The actor himself has called it the most “pure and beautiful” place on earth.
Little Halls Pond Cay is surrounded by gorgeous turquoise waters and white sand beaches, which he happened to name after his idols, Marlon Brando and Hunter S. Thompson. In 2005, after Thompson’s suicide, Depp spent $3 million on a one-of-a-kind funeral service for his friend and mentor, which included blasting his ashes into space. A nearby island that has been seen in many of Depp’s Pirates films, Little Pipe Cay, is currently up for sale. So, if you want to be neighbors with Johnny Depp on your own private island, all it’s going to cost you is a cool $85 million.
Celine Dion – Jupiter Island, Florida
Worth: $38.5 MillionSuperstar songstress Celine Dion spent over $45 million creating her ultimate vacation hideaway off the coast of Florida. Jupiter Island is home to five large buildings with three pools, all with stunning ocean views. But Dion’s pools aren’t just any pools – they’re more like mini-waterparks, with two lazy rivers and huge waterslides. Now that’s a vacation home!
The singer originally acquired her island getaway in nearly $20 million, and that’s just for the actual land. Then, she spent another $20 million building and wiring everything. But Dion wound up listing the resort on the market in 2016, at a whopping $72.5 million. When she did finally find a buyer for it the following year, she sold for $38.5 million – much less than what she was hoping for. The buyer was the Jupiter Island Trust, which is headed up by an American who plans to use it as their own vacation home.
John Lennon - Dorinish, Clew Bay, Ireland
Worth: $300,000John Lennon first bought Dorinish, a private island in Clew Bay, Ireland, in 1967. He paid 1,700 euros for it (less than $2,000.) The musician and his family, including his first wife, Cynthia, until their divorce. After the split, he and new wife Yoko Ono continued to use the property as a hippie commune. 25 free spirits lived in the island community until 1972, when a fire burned down the supply tent and everyone moved away.
After Lennon passed away, Yoko Ono sold the property for almost 30,000 euros – that’s a pretty impressive profit considering what was initially paid for it! But rather than hanging on to the money, she donated it to a local orphanage. Today, the island is fondly known as “Beatle Island,” and is inhabited mainly by cattle who graze and live freely. Beatle’s fans still pop up to see the place every now and then.