The Bridgehampton compound of modeling maven Christie Brinkley can be yours this week if you’re willing to part with $29.5 million. Brinkley, whose youngest of three kids is leaving the nest for college, presumably no longer needs 11,037 square feet of living space—nor 9 bedrooms, 7 full and 4 half bathrooms, or a 20-acre property with Atlantic Ocean and Connecticut shore views—all to herself.
Among the amenities at the property—dubbed Tower Hill—are a heated, four-car garage, a 50-foot observation tower, a barn/art studio, a glass conservatory, and a guesthouse featuring four of the aforementioned bedrooms.
In the main home, which was built in the late 1800s, a gym, an office and three fireplaces join a sun room, a blue-cabineted country kitchen with marble counters, a double-height great room with wood panels, a pair of living rooms and a formal dining room with built-in cabinets. Brightly adorned chandeliers add an elegant pop to the rustic spaces and soaring windows let in plenty of light.
Also included on the property is an extra-long swimming pool with spa, a number of winding walking paths and a huge rolling lawn surrounded by the heavily forested outer acreage.
Brinkley cobbled the compound together in a series of transactions between 1996 and 1998 totaling about $2.7 million, so if she comes anywhere near her asking price, she’ll be making a pretty penny on the investment—something she knows a bit about. In 2008, it was estimated that she was worth $80 million, primarily due to her real estate investments.
Discovered in 1973 by photographer Errol Sawyer in a Paris post office, Brinkley’s decades-long career included three straight Sports Illustrated covers in the late 1970s and twenty-five years as the face of Cover Girl—a record cosmetics contract that’s never been surpassed.