Britney Spears hasn’t lived in her former Hollywood Hills home since 2003, but the residence brings up bad memories for quite a few fans. The 43-year-old pop star sold the house to the late Brittany Murphy for $3.85 million — it’s a place that many people would describe as “cursed.”
The estate, which is now on the market for $17,995,000 million, was a place that Spears was reportedly spooked by. “She had that place up on Sunset Plaza — and I’m just gonna say, this is really weird.[Britney] calls me… I had my friend do reiki healing on her,” the singer’s former makeup artist Julianne Kaye claimed on We Need to Talk About Britney podcast in February 2021. “He had come up; I guess she’d had a crazy partying weekend and needed to relax. He left, and she swears to God that he opened some spirit portal or something, and these bad spirits had come in… and they were trying to, like, push her down the stairs or something crazy. It was so bad that she left.”
Spears lived at a hotel until she sold the home reportedly telling Kaye, “I know you’re gonna think I’m crazy. I’m not crazy. I know what I saw. I know what I felt.” After Murphy bought the place, she also felt a darkness about the residence and it would be the last home she lived in before her Dec. 20, 2009, death from pneumonia.
In 2011, The Hollywood Reporter‘s Alex Ben Block detailed a conversation he had with Murphy’s husband Simon Monjack in January 2010, just five months before his death. “She absolutely hated the Rising Glen house,” Monjack said. “Every time we would drive up Sunset, Brit would say, ‘Please, can we stay at the Beverly Hills Hotel?’ I’d say: ‘Honey, you’ve got to be realistic. We have our house, a 10,000-square-foot home. We’re going to stay in it.’” Oddly enough, Monjack died in the home on May 23, 2010, also from pneumonia.
The current Carolwood Estates listing is hoping to shake off the dark Hollywood connections with the home. They describe the 9,400-square-foot residence as an “architectural gem’ that “has undergone a complete metamorphosis.” The realtors hope to find the right owner for the six-bedroom, nine-bathroom place that has magnificent views, but more than one unhappy story tied to it.
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