Exterior shot of the 5,000-sq-ft Los Angeles home Leonardo DiCaprio purchased for $7.1 million and gave to his mother. Photo credit: Todd Goodman. Courtesy of TopTenRealEstateDeals.com
LOS ANGELES – Leonardo DiCaprio has come a long way in 20 years. Leapfrogging from Romper Room and Friends to Hollywood A-lister and, at the same time, acquiring a real estate portfolio that might make Ellen DeGeneres envious. His collection includes an L.A. home he bought in the 1990s from Madonna; a fabulous mid-century modern home in Palm Springs that was built for Dinah Shore, which he purchased in 2014; and a $23 million Malibu home he acquired in 2017. But all of his purchases don’t stay in his portfolio – some are given as gifts to family members. In a generous act, DiCaprio recently purchased the Los Feliz home of Modern Family star Jesse Tyler Ferguson for $7.1 million and gave it to his mother, Irmelin Indenbirken. A few years ago, he also bought a Los Feliz home for his dad, George DiCaprio, for $4.9 million.