It’s no secret Jennifer Aniston loves her Bel Air home. Designed by architect A. Quincy Jones, the midcentury modern-style structure has served as the actress’s primary residence for 14 years, ever since she bought the $21 million spread and subsequently renovated it with the help of designers Stephen Shadley and Clements Design. In addition to giving the 10,000 square feet of interiors an overhaul, Aniston built a guard shack and added Japanese-style gardens to the 3.2-acre estate, which was photographed for Architectural Digest in 2018.
But that house recently made the headlines for all the wrong reasons, after an obsessed fan rammed his car into Aniston’s driveway gates before being detained by her private security. What wasn’t reported then was that just prior to the incident, Aniston had stealthily purchased her next door neighbor’s house, though the property wasn’t publicly listed for sale.
Tax records reveal Aniston paid $7.25 million for that neighboring place, which was built in 1962 and last sold in 2019 for $6 million to another Aniston neighbor, financier Daniel G. Cohen, who has long owned the big Mediterranean-style mansion across the street from her Bel Air home. It appears Cohen let the secondary property sit vacant before he texted Aniston one sunny morning to ask if she’d want to take the ownership reins, or at least that’s how we like to imagine the transaction went down.
We’re not sure if the “Friends” star will transform this new acquisition into either a guesthouse or a security command post, or perhaps it’s just a nice buffer property to maintain her residential peace. Whatever the case, Aniston now presides over a newly expanded compound totaling more than 4-acres of prime Bel Air land.
Large but architecturally unremarkable, the two-story house packs five bedrooms and five baths into nearly 5,000 square feet of living space, all of it set behind gates and overlooking a backyard swimming pool that juts up very close to the structure itself. Other highlights include a distinctly 2000s kitchen with granite countertops and stainless appliances, a fireplace-equipped living room, an upstairs primary suite sporting a cobalt blue bathroom, and covered terraces with views of city lights.
But it seems unlikely Aniston will ever spend a night at this place—she’s already busy bouncing between two other lavish homes. In addition to her primary Bel Air residence, she also famously maintains a $15 million mansion up north in Montecito.
Aniston bought that vacation house from Oprah Winfrey three years ago and subsequently renovated it, installing a backyard swimming pool, adding Japanese-style gardens, and updating the interiors. We assume she picked out much of the new decor and finishes herself, a process she has said “feeds her soul.”
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