Ellen DeGeneres Buys Brody House by A. Quincy Jones

It’s been called sets from a mid century masterpiece for the best house in Los Angeles. For Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi the A. Quincy Jones-designed gem, generally known as “The Brody House”, is just called home.

After pulling off many of the biggest real estate property deals of 2013, the celebrity couple have scored an early on coup in 2014 with the purchase of the pristine pad. Confirmed through the Chicago Times, DeGeneres and de Rossi have reportedly paid $39.888 million for your midcentury modern abode found right next door towards Playboy Mansion in Holmby Hills.

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

ellen-degeneres-a-quincy-jones-brody-house-9Jones, whose works have become quite coveted in celebrity circles, designed the home in 1949 in partnership with house decorator Billy Haines and landscape architect Garrett Eckbo. Your home first exchanged in 2010 for $14.888 million and was restored by designer Stephen Stone before being flipped towards the trophy home-collecting DeGeneres.

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