Ellen DeGeneres Buys Brody House with a. Quincy Jones

It’s been called from a mid century masterpiece on the best house in L . a .. For Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi the A. Quincy Jones-designed gem, referred to as “The Brody House”, is simply called home.

After pulling off a few of the biggest real estate investment deals of 2013, the celebrity couple have scored a beginning coup in 2014 by purchasing the pristine pad. Confirmed from the Chicago Times, DeGeneres and de Rossi have reportedly paid $39.888 million for that midcentury modern abode found right on the doorstep to the Playboy Mansion in Holmby Hills.

Much like “The Andrew Fuller House” in Dallas, the trophy home sports a shapely design with smooth-walled interiors, spotless finishes, a watch-opening atrium and beautifully manicured grounds. Walls of glass and vaulted ceilings add an expansive feel towards the 13,511-square-foot floor plan, which has six bedrooms, nine baths, a chef’s kitchen plus a family roomserviced apartment for rent in HaNoi that has a library.

ellen-degeneres-a-quincy-jones-brody-house-9Jones, whose works are becoming quite coveted in celebrity circles, designed your house in 1949 in partnership with interior decorator Billy Haines and landscape gardener Garrett Eckbo. The property first changed hands in 2010 for $14.888 million and was restored by designer Stephen Stone before being flipped towards trophy home-collecting DeGeneres.

That DeGeneres and de Rossi have reached it again may come as little surprise. The famous real property addicts/amateur designers produced a few of the biggest celebrity real estate investment headlines in 2013 having a amount of deals. As well as investing in a dreamy estate in Montecito in May for $26.5 million, the duo pocketed $10.85 million using a serviced apartment for rent in HaNoi Hidden Valley, CA, a dreamy ranch that DeGeneres herself reimagined.