Now Robbie swaps £18m mansion in London for a hotel
...and it’s all down to ‘bad energy’, man
NOW that he’s finally finished what feels like the longest home refurbishment in history – and ended his public feud with rock star neighbour Jimmy Page – you’d think Robbie Williams would at last be enjoying life in his £18m mansion.
Instead, the pop star has decided his home in Holland Park, West London, has ‘bad energy’… so he’s moved to a nearby hotel.
His decision comes after years of grappling with planning officials and Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy over a two-floor basement extension complete with pool, gym and recording studio.
Robbie, 45, now divides his time between a £2,000-a-night hotel in London and his Wiltshire estate – only popping back to the 46-room Holland Park mansion for the occasional night to make sure his security people are doing their job.
A source says that when Robbie was at a party after a surprise gig at Winter
Wonderland in Hyde Park to celebrate his Christmas Present album, he told a pal that he’s gone off his London home’s ‘energy’ because ‘the [planning] battle has put a cloud over the whole house’.
Robbie, whose new single is, ironically, called Time For Change, has been sensitive to ‘energetic balance’ since living in California.
He says he believes in aliens, and when he rented a house in Los Angeles from Ghostbusters star
Dan Aykroyd, he said it was ‘completely haunted’ by Mamas and Papas singer Mama Cass.
Robbie’s decision must be music to the ears of 75-year-old Jimmy. Robbie rebuffed Page’s attempts to talk about his fears that renovation work would damage his Grade I listed property next door. He also claimed Robbie played loud music just to annoy him.
In turn, Robbie accused
Jimmy of being ‘obsessed’ with him and of suffering from a ‘mental illness’. He later apologised.