Leonardo DiCaprio's House (former)
Malibu, CA
The Story
Actor since the early 1990s, first Oscar-nominated at 19 for What’s Eating Gilbert Grape. Titanic made him a global star in 1997, and he won his Oscar for The Revenant in 2016.
Los Angeles County dated the bungalow to 1950. The structure is gone: the county approved a misfortune and calamity claim, and its 2026 and 2027 rolls carry the parcel as land, improvements at $0.
The county’s legal description still opens with “land of Matthew Keller,” the Irish immigrant who took Rancho Topanga Malibu Sequit by quitclaim for $1,400. His son Henry sold it to Frederick Rindge in 1892, per Pepperdine’s archivist.
DiCaprio bought the house in September 1998, 9 months after Titanic opened. In 2016, W magazine noted it was the home he had owned longest, and that his mother was likelier to use it, part time.
In 2016 the house was up for rent at $50,000 a month, W magazine reported, and that September DiCaprio put it up for sale. LAist later noted it came off the market.
TMZ reported in November 2021 that he had sold it, furnished, after renting it out at $25,000 a month. The county roll backs it up: the base year reset to 2022, marking a change of ownership.
Carbon Beach is a mile-long strip of sand, and then neighbor David Geffen promised the public a path to it in 1983. The Associated Press reported the gate finally opened in May 2005, 22 years later.
The Facts
- Bedrooms
- 3
- Bathrooms
- 2
- Interior
- 1,765 ft²
- Est. value
- $9,700,000
- Last sold
- $10,300,000in 2021
Address
Malibu, CA
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Sources
- Los Angeles County Assessor, parcel data
- W Magazine, Inside Leonardo DiCaprio’s Malibu Dream House (2016)
- TMZ, Leonardo DiCaprio Sells Malibu House (2021)
- Pepperdine University Libraries, Malibu History: The Rancho Topanga Malibu Sequit
- NBC News (Associated Press), Malibu mogul opens beach 22 years later (2005)
- LAist, on the 2016 Malibu listing (Julia Wick, Sep 18, 2016)