Selena Gomez sells Tom Petty’s former Encino mansion for $5.4million after moving into $35million marital home with Benny Blanco – and the bathtub stares straight into a cliff
Tom Petty built this Encino house in 1989 after a fire took his old one. Selena Gomez has just sold it for $5.399 million, now that she and Benny Blanco have moved into a $35 million place. For 11,500 square feet in LA, that almost sounds cheap.
First look
Nearly an acre, and you can barely find the roof for the trees.
Built in 1989 after Petty's previous house burned down. One commenter says they project-managed the build, hung out with Tom, Jane and their girls, and that the Traveling Wilburys dropped by. Best comment on the whole video.
Out front
Privacy was the whole point. Drive past and you'd never guess.
A porch swing. Someone's grandma approves.
The big rooms
The ceilings are what the comments kept bringing up. Fair enough.
There's a bridge across the living room. Upstairs to upstairs, right over the fireplace.
A Viking range tucked into its own brick hearth. Cute, but I bet it gets hot in there.
Somebody in the comments caught a tap left running at 1:56 of the video. Tough crowd.
Another brick fireplace. I've stopped counting.
Dinner at the foot of the stairs, so anyone coming down gets a grand entrance.
Music room and friends
Tom Petty built a house, so obviously there's a music room. It's the brightest room in the place and I'd sit in here all day despite playing nothing.
Somewhere near this bar there's a sunken round conversation pit with red velvet chairs, and it didn't make the photos. Tragic.
Greenhouse dining. Lovely in April, a sauna in August.
The bath with a cliff
Main bedroom's on the ground floor and opens straight onto the verandas.
It has its own drinks fridge. You'd never leave.
Upstairs, under the beams
Staircase number two. This house really likes curves.
Every beam meets in the middle. Like sleeping in a very expensive tent.
Nobody's getting work done in this office. They're staring at the ceiling.
Six bedrooms, and each one gets its own bathroom.
Out back
The hillside behind the house is basically a grotto now.
Hot tub spills over the rocks into the pool. Extremely 1989. I love it.
Outdoor kitchen under stone arches, for when one Viking isn't enough.
Top comment I didn't expect: "Casket not included." No idea. Still laughed.
Selena's off to a $35 million place with Benny Blanco now. I'd have at least tried to take the bathtub.
