Whoopi Goldberg's House

Whoopi Goldberg is an EGOT-winning actor, comedian, and talk show host, known for The Color Purple, Ghost, and Sister Act. She has co-moderated ABC’s The View since 2007.

New Jersey’s parcel roll dates this house to 1927, decades after the community around it was laid out. Its building code describes 2 brick sections, a frame section, and garage bays for 6 cars.

Llewellyn Haskell started Llewellyn Park in 1853 as a residential enclave with no commerce, set behind a fence and a gatehouse. The Sundown Towns archive, citing Witold Rybczynski, says it may have been America’s first gated community.

Goldberg bought in 2009. She told New York Magazine she felt “a bit besieged” in the city, and her business partner Tom Leonardis suggested she look at New Jersey.

The draw was a yard. “I lived in the city and had no way of sitting outside,” she told NJ Advance Media in 2019, adding that 50 people would gather whenever she tried.

“A lot of what you see here is because of Elizabeth Taylor,” Goldberg has said of her collection. The mix of periods doesn’t bother her: they “kind of clash all over the house, which is great for me.”

In 2021 developer Prism Capital Partners sued Goldberg’s company for $50M over downtown West Orange, claiming a sound studio plan pushed it out. The mayor said the town “categorically denies” it, per Fox News.