Samuel L Jackson's House in Beverly Hills, and His Homes in New York and Encino

Samuel L Jackson, the actor behind Jules Winnfield in Pulp Fiction and Nick Fury in the Marvel films, has lived in the same Beverly Hills house since 2000, according to Architectural Digest. He and his wife, the actor LaTanya Richardson Jackson, bought it that year from Roseanne Barr, the magazine reports. It sits in Beverly Park, a community of large estates in the hills, and the county has not recorded a change of ownership there in the 26 years since.

In 2005 they also bought a condo in a 1901 building on the Upper East Side. Before either came a brownstone in Harlem, which they bought in 1981 while Jackson was still a stage actor, and a Tudor in Encino that they sold in 2002.

The Beverly Park house is covered on its own in Samuel L Jackson's Beverly Hills home profile.

Beverly Park, since 2000

The house went up in 1987, according to the Los Angeles County Assessor, in the first round of building in Beverly Park. The parcels beside it carry build years of 1986, 1988 and 1990, so this stretch of the community filled in within about four years. Architectural Digest, writing in 2024, says the first owner was a British lord who paid more than $7M for the place and spent another $3M remodeling it. The magazine does not name him.

The county tax roll agrees with Architectural Digest that they never left: the parcel's value was last reset by a sale in 2000, the year they bought it.

The city's online permit data lists one job on the property in the Jackson years. The Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety issued it on July 26, 2021, for two new balconies off the back of the house, and valued the work at $50,000. Architectural Digest lists a tennis court, a pool, and a 2,300-square-foot synthetic putting green on the grounds. Every film contract Jackson signs lets him play golf twice a week, SlashFilm reported, citing an interview he gave The New York Times in 2017.

The Encino Tudor they sold

Before Beverly Park, the family lived on the Valley side of the Santa Monica Mountains, in Encino. Jackson and Richardson Jackson bought an English Tudor there in the 1990s, for $1.1 million according to Architectural Digest. The Los Angeles Times described it as a 1981 house on about an acre, with a guest house, a pool and a tennis court, and the decorator Cecil N. Hayes oversaw its renovation. Jackson once summed up his days there for Architectural Digest: “I'm in the screening room watching a movie or outside hitting balls on the green.”

The Times reported the sale in May 2002, at a little under $2 million, and gave the reason: the couple had bought the bigger Beverly Hills house from Roseanne Barr nearly two years earlier. A 2015 Times story put the 2002 price at $1.95 million, citing records, after the Jacksons had first tried for $2.8 million in 2001. The Times also reported that the buyers took out the putting green. The $3.2 million asking price of December 2014, once dated on this page as their sale, belonged to a later owner.

Harlem, 1981 to 1997

The first house the couple owned was a two-family brownstone in Harlem, as Architectural Digest describes it. City deed records show it passing to Samuel L Jackson and La Tanya R Jackson, as the index spells her name, on March 20, 1981. A mortgage from the couple to one of the sellers was recorded the same day: the seller lent them part of the price and took repayment over time. For a stage actor and his wife in 1981, that meant one seller acted as their bank, so the couple did not need the whole price up front. Architectural Digest, quoting The New York Times, puts the price at $35,000, citing the deed.

The deed out of their names is dated June 6, 1997, and was recorded that August, conveying the house to a company. Architectural Digest, again quoting the Times, puts that price at $125,000 and gives Jackson's reason for letting it go: “I had to chop the ice off the steps.” In the magazine's account, he still loved New York, only not owning a brownstone there.

Back in Manhattan, 2005

In 2005 the couple came back to New York as owners, with a condo in a 1901 building on the Upper East Side. They put it up for sale in November 2018, 6sqft reported, and then took it off the market.

The title now sits with a company, not the couple. The apartment has a page of its own too: Samuel L Jackson's Upper East Side condo.