Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon sell mansion they bought as newlyweds, taking big price cut
With their marriage apparently over, Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon have just sold their mansion in Los Angeles' Bel-Air neighborhood at a big discount. They bought it as newlyweds in 2009.
They'd been trying to sell the house for a year, listing it at $12,995,000 in February 2014. Last month, they accepted an offer of $9 million.
They paid $6,975,000 for it, closing the purchase just before their first wedding anniversary. On their third anniversary, she gave birth to their twins, Monroe (for Marilyn Monroe) and Moroccan (for Carey's Moroccan-style room where Cannon proposed; she created a Moroccan room in their Bel-Air mansion, too).
The buyers "wanted something unique," their agent, Ardavan Mofid of Coldwell Banker, told Yahoo Homes. They searched for two years before finding Carey's mansion, he said.
They loved the variety offered by each room — a country-style breakfast nook, the Moroccan room, a rustic lodge-like space with a jukebox, a glamorous Old Hollywood-style foyer — that they felt added up to "not just a house, a home," Mofid said.
The 7-bedroom, 9-bath mansion has about 13,000 square feet of living space. Its 3 acres include a putting green, a Mariah-monogrammed pool and what the buyers' agent described as "unbelievable views" that stretch from downtown Los Angeles all the way to Laguna Niguel in Orange County.
The buyers are Drs. Rudy and Niki Rezzadeh. He's a heart specialist, and she's "a very famous dentist," Mofid said. They're relocating from the East Coast.
Cannon reportedly filed for divorce from Carey in December.
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