whose show will end this year — and her wife Portia de Rossi, 49, aren’t strangers to Montecito. Dirt notes the couple owns a $14.3 million ranch there, as well as a small cottage there too.
Also in Montecito, a property that DeGeneres and de Rossi bought in September 2021 for $12 million off-market, which now asks $13.9 million for sale. (Dirt also notes that latter pad seems to have found a buyer, but it “tied up” in escrow.)The wives also own a midcentury modern home, but in Beverly Hills, Calif., which DeGeneres shelled out $8.5 million to get last August.Kinka Usher, a French-born director of television commercials for names including HBO and Sony, whose film credits include 1999’s box office bomb “Mystery Man,” designed and built this just-sold Montecito estate in 2014.
Only one listing image is available, showing a red-tone exterior accented with candy cane-striped arches that adorn the Mezquita cathedral in Cordoba, Spain.
But the estate stands on a knoll with views of the Pacific Ocean. The property has a formal motorcourt for arrivals, and a hand-carved front door leads inside.
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