Frank Zappa’s $5.3M Palace of Weird Has an Unsurprising Buyer: Lady Gaga

Published: October 1, 2016 | By: American Luxury Staff

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.

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