Adam Levine sold his Benedict Canyon home to John Mayer
LOS ANGELES 4,026 SQ. FT. 3 BEDROOMS 3 BATHS Some will argue a home owned or once owned by a name-brand personality will sell at a higher price than if it carries no showbiz provenance at all. There’s little but anecdotal evidence to suggest that’s true, but some properties, particularly in the more expensive zip codes around Los Angeles, are without question irresistibly powerful magnets for famous folk. And there are lots of entertainment industry luminaries who exercise a deep-pocketed proclivity for doing real estate business almost exclusively with other noteworthy individuals.
Last summer, Kelly Osbourne paid Rooney Mara nearly $3.6 million for a glasswalled mid-century pavilion at the end of a winding cul-de-sac above Bronson Canyon that Mara bought in 2015 for $2.9 million from “Big Little Lies” star Alexander Skarsgård. And ripe for its next mega-famous owner: the almost preposterously pedigreed home of “Big Bang Theory” luminary Jim Parsons, a carefully restored and updated 1920s Spanish Colonial secreted behind a riotous bougainvillea hedge