It was relatively humdrum news when American Luxury originally covered the sale of Frank Zappa’s Hollywood Hills home this month, but it’s recently been revealed that the buyer who dropped $5.25 million via private trust on the Tudor revival home in Laurel Canyon is none other than pop diva and 2016 Golden Globe-winning actress Lady Gaga.
Gaga, whose courting of the weird and wild has been news for so long it’s no longer news, will find plenty to like in the 1930s-built compound, including a recording studio—formerly known as the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen during Zappa’s tenure as owner—a climate controlled vinyl record vault and a full rehearsal space, and while the accents may be a bit more wooden than one would picture in a Gaga-owned home, there are plenty of luxurious—and charmingly bonkers—touches.
Clerestories and a wall of windows in the living room offer plenty of light, and a dining room fit for ten includes a dragon mural, while a patterned Mahogany ceiling tops the home office. There’s also an art gallery with soaring ceilings, a pebbled back patio, some nifty brickwork on a series of arches and “porthole windows and doors salvaged from vintage submarines.”
There’s also a diving board-equipped swimming pool, a greenhouse and a tennis court on the roof.
Gaga has matured considerably in recent years. After putting out an album with Tony Bennett, she had a well-received turn in FX’s American Horror Story. Next year, she’ll have a marquee credit in the Bradley Cooper-helmed remake of A Star is Born.