{"id":2251036,"date":"2026-01-26T14:10:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T14:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2251036"},"modified":"2026-01-26T14:10:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T14:10:38","slug":"celeb-mansions-abandoned-and-left-to-rot-including-steve-jobs-incredible-home-celebrity-news-showbiz-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/celeb-mansions-abandoned-and-left-to-rot-including-steve-jobs-incredible-home-celebrity-news-showbiz-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Celeb mansions abandoned and left to rot \u2013 including Steve Jobs\u2019 incredible home | Celebrity News | Showbiz &#038; TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Behind high gates and manicured driveways, some of the world\u2019s most <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/hollywood\">famous<\/a> homes have been left to rot \u2014 abandoned, vandalised or reduced to embarrassing ruins. From once-glorious mansions that became legal nightmares, to childhood homes caught up in bitter family feuds, these properties tell a very different story to the polished public images of their owners. In several cases, neglect set in fast, with peeling paint, crumbling walls and overgrown grounds replacing luxury and excess.<\/p>\n<p>Others spiralled into chaos after scandals, bankruptcies or planning disasters that no amount of money could fix. This list reveals the jaw-dropping downfall of celebrity homes that were once worth millions \u2014 including estates plagued by haunting rumours, mega-mansions that never stood a chance, fantasy ranches left deserted, and one villa that suffered perhaps the most shocking afterlife of all. Here we take a look at crumbling celebrity mansions which once stood tall&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"withoutCaption\"><picture><source type=\"image\/avif\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/79\/1200x712\/secondary\/Courtney-Love-6695355.avif?r=1769194265627\" media=\"screen and (min-width:10000px)\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/79\/1200x712\/secondary\/Courtney-Love-6695355.webp?r=1769194265627\" media=\"screen and (min-width:10000px)\"><source type=\"image\/jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/79\/1200x712\/secondary\/Courtney-Love-6695355.jpg?r=1769194265627\" media=\"screen and (min-width:10000px)\"><source type=\"image\/avif\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/79\/940x\/secondary\/Courtney-Love-6695355.avif?r=1769194265627\" media=\"screen\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/79\/940x\/secondary\/Courtney-Love-6695355.webp?r=1769194265627\" media=\"screen\"><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsCaption\">\n<p>In 2019, the property was listed for \u00a3243,000, a \u00a397,000 loss, and bluntly described as a \u201cmajor fixer\u201d requiring \u201ceverything\u201d to be done. Fire damage, graffiti-covered stables and a neglected interior paint a bleak picture.<\/p>\n<p> <span class=\"caption\">(Image: Virgil Adams Real Estate)<\/span><span class=\"magnifier\" data-img=\"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/79\/1200x712\/secondary\/Courtney-Love-6695355.jpg?r=1769194265627\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.express.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behind high gates and manicured driveways, some of the world\u2019s most famous homes have been left to rot \u2014 abandoned, vandalised or reduced to embarrassing ruins. From once-glorious mansions that became legal nightmares, to childhood homes caught up in bitter family feuds, these properties tell a very different story to the polished public images of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2251037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[435805,435804,22860,360595,435807,304696,332716,435808,435806],"class_list":["post-2251036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-abandoned-celebrity-mansions","tag-boris-becker","tag-hollywood","tag-housing","tag-legal-nightmares","tag-michael-jackson","tag-mike-tyson","tag-property-neglect","tag-steve-jobs-home"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Celeb-mansions-abandoned-and-left-to-rot-\u2013-including-Steve.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2251036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2251038,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251036\/revisions\/2251038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2251037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2251036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2251036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2251036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}