Ellen Degeneres's House

Ellen DeGeneres is the comedian who hosted The Ellen DeGeneres Show from 2003 to 2022. She and her wife, Portia de Rossi, have bought and resold a long run of California houses.

This Montecito compound centers on a South African Cape Dutch-style main house, with a guesthouse, a pool house, and a barn around it. Inman credits the barn to architect Tom Kundig.

Celebrity Net Worth says the Millers joined 3 adjoining parcels into one compound of 5 structures. The grounds hold a large lily pond, an infinity-edge pool, courtyards, and walking paths.

Dennis Miller, the Saturday Night Live Weekend Update anchor from 1985 to 1991, bought the property in 2006 with his wife, Carolyn Espley-Miller. It stayed theirs for about 14 years.

DeGeneres and de Rossi bought the compound off-market in 2020, and Inman called it one of the priciest sales on record in Santa Barbara County. The Wall Street Journal named DeGeneres as the anonymous buyer that December.

They did not stay long. Site Lines reported in October 2021 that the couple had resold it off-market about a year after buying, for about $6M more, to a buyer nobody had named.