Ellen Degeneres & Portia de Rossi's House (former)

Ellen DeGeneres is the comedian who hosted The Ellen DeGeneres Show from 2003 to 2022. Her wife, Portia de Rossi, starred in Ally McBeal and Arrested Development.

The house went up in Trousdale Estates for Diane and Charles Skouras Jr., according to Apartment Therapy. He was part owner and president of a major movie theater group.

Hal Levitt gets the architect credit, and Today and other press date the house to 1956. The Los Angeles County Assessor's roll says 1958.

The Skouras family held on until 2002, when designer Kelly Wearstler and hotelier Brad Korzen paid about $4M and redid it top to bottom, Realtor.com reported. They sold to producer Robert Cort in 2006.

DeGeneres and de Rossi bought it from Cort and his wife, media executive Rosalie Swedlin, in 2012 for $17.4M. That is more than 4 times what Wearstler paid a decade earlier.

Windy City Times called it “more modest” in June 2012, and it was. The couple had come straight off the much larger Beverly Hills estate that Ryan Seacrest bought from them.

Their stay ran under 2 years. A Tim and Julie Harris real estate blog dates the sale to December 2013, while The Real Deal, citing records, puts buyer Roger Birnbaum's purchase in 2014.

Birnbaum, the Spyglass Entertainment co-founder, sold in 2019. The Real Deal's account of that sale also credits the house with a role in Versace's Four Days in L.A. ad campaign.