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Ellen DeGeneres Sells Montecito’s Historic Porter House to Ariana Grande
James McClain The sleepy Santa Barbara County town of Montecito has more than its fair share of celebrity residents — Gwyneth Paltrow, Rob Lowe, Meg Ryan and most famously Oprah Winfrey and Ellen DeGeneres — but it’s about to get a big jolt of star wattage from one of its newest homeowners, pint-sized pop music superstar Ariana Grande.Property records clearly confirm that Grande, fresh off her $13.7 million mansion purchase in the Hollywood Hills, has unexpectedly shelled out another $6.75 million for Montecito’s historic Porter House, a picturesque and decidedly quirky English Tudor-style property sold by talk show tycoon Ellen DeGeneres and her actor wife Portia de Rossi.On reflection, it’s perhaps not surprising that Grande has bought
