Chuck Lorre’s longtime home in Pacific Palisades survived the recent wildfires, but apparently his desire to continue living in the neighborhood did not. After more than 30 years at the same house—which saw him through two marriages and divorces, plus the creation and launch of his most successful shows—the wildly successful TV sitcom producer is finally ready for curtain call, we think. While the Palisades property is not yet on the market, Lorre has just splashed out $27.5 million to buy a significantly larger estate in L.A.’s tony Bel Air neighborhood.
It was architect John Elgin Woolf, widely known as the father of the Hollywood Regency style, who designed the Bel Air house, which the listing describes as a “key piece of L.A. architectural history” and which reportedly served as Woolf’s own personal residence. Completed in 1949, the estate eventually fell into years of disrepair before it was sold, in 2021, for $12 million to architect Mark Rios and his husband, Dr. Guy Ringler.
Rios and Ringler subsequently revamped and reimagined the entire place, bringing it back to its glamorous roots in Hollywood’s Golden Age while adding a healthy dollop of modernity. That makeover entailed replacing the existing staircase with a dazzling and “floating” staircase done up all in white, complete with a white leather railing, and installing an essentially all-new kitchen, complete with blacked-out Bulthaup cabinetry and an imported Lacanche range.
Sited just north of Sunset Boulevard in prime lower Bel Air, the mansard-roofed manse squats behind gates on three-quarters of an acre of land, and packs six bedrooms and seven baths into 8,400 square feet of living space.
Tall and slender pullman front doors, a Regency-style hallmark, greet visitors, who will also be impressed by the glass-walled foyer and the adjoining green dining room. The formal living room functions as a groovy cocktail lounge, per the listing, and it naturally is accompanied an original fireplace and a piano-black bar.
Perhaps the coolest spaces, however, are the octagonal breakfast room, with its walls of glass and beautiful tile floor, and a separate octagonal room currently outfitted as a Moroccan-inspired lounge.
Other highlights include a red-walled library, a wine cellar, a gym with its own attached bathroom, an elevator, a house manager’s office, and a state-of-the-art smart home system with integrated surround sound, music, and lighting. The upstairs primary suite features two bathrooms—one done up in black marble, the other all in white—and two closets.
In addition to a spacious motorcourt, the mostly flat grounds also contain a large patch of grassy lawn, walking paths, a swimming pool, and a vibrant koi pond.
It’s not such a surprise that Lorre would choose to move to Bel Air—the “Two and a Half Men,” “Mike & Molly,” and “How I Met Your Mother” creator has been a member of the exclusive Bel-Air Country Club for years, alongside other mega-rich celebs such as Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, and Clint Eastwood.
Lorre is recently divorced from his third wife, popular social media influencer Arielle Lorre, but remains one of the wealthiest figures in Hollywood. Numerous sources peg the 72-year-old’s net worth at $600 million or more, while Forbes says he hauled in $100 million in 2022 alone, and certainly he maintains a lifestyle that adequately reflects that success. In addition to his longtime Palisades home and new Bel Air spread, the New York native also keeps an oceanfront getaway in Malibu.
And Lorre’s riches have trickled down to his family members, too. Last year, his adult daughter Nikki Lorre paid $6.1 million to buy Mandy Moore’s midcentury modern Pasadena home.
As for Lorre’s Palisades house, records reveal he acquired that 6,600-square-foot structure way back in 1995 for $2.6 million. Large but relatively unassuming from the street, the traditional-style residence sits just down the road from the L.A. homes of Steven Spielberg, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Bill Cosby.
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