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

Ellen DeGeneres is the stand-up comedian who came out on her ABC sitcom in 1997 and hosted The Ellen DeGeneres Show from 2003 to 2022. Portia de Rossi, her wife since 2008, starred in Ally McBeal and Arrested Development.

The county assessor dates this Hollywood Hills house to 1956, on a canyon-view parcel of under half an acre. Variety's Mark David called it the mid-century half of a 2-house compound, beside a larger ranch.

City permits from 2011 to 2014 trace a hard rehab: a new roof, 8 windows and 10 doors replaced, shear walls, and a 225-foot retaining wall for the slope. A May 2014 permit put the job about 90% complete.

DeGeneres owned this as the smaller of the 2 houses and sold both in September 2007 for a combined $10M, Variety reported. The buyer was a window-manufacturing heiress, so this house never had a price of its own under DeGeneres.

According to Variety, DeGeneres's former girlfriend Alexandra Hedison had recently rehabbed it when it sold in summer 2014. The price was $3.161M, and the buyer was a blind trust Variety tied to Stephen Merchant, co-creator of The Office.

Later in 2014, DeGeneres and de Rossi bought back the larger house, and most reports wrongly named this one, Variety's Mark David wrote. Even Out's July 2014 item called this the talk-show host's home, 7 years after she sold it.