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'Tear-Down' Star Abode Listed At $8.6 Million

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By RUTH RYON, Los Angeles Times

Published: December 29, 2007

LOS ANGELES - If you want to start the new year in a home once owned by a celebrity, you're in luck. There are several on the market.

One belongs to hip-hop star Kanye West.

While planning their wedding, the rapper and his bride-to-be, fashion designer Alexis Phifer, 31, decided to list his house in the flats of Beverly Hills at $8,699,000.

The traditional-style, 3,300-square-foot house, which he bought earlier this year for about $7.2 million, is considered a tear-down.

The asking price includes plans for a two-story contemporary. West had planned to have a house built in place of the existing six-bedroom, four-bathroom residence, constructed in 1921.

The house is on parklike grounds on less than an acre.

West, 30, received eight Grammy nominations, including an album of the year nod, for "Graduation," for February's 50th annual awards.

The mother of the six-time Grammy winner died unexpectedly in November. Donda West, 58, died at home the day after undergoing a cosmetic surgery procedure. She raised her only child alone and at one time was his manager.
Kanye West included lyrics of tribute to her in some of his songs.

Earlier this year, she co-wrote the book "Raising Kanye: Life Lessons From the Mother of a Hip-Hop Superstar."

Macy Gray's Manse Remodeled

Another Grammy winner, Macy Gray, sold her home in the San Fernando Valley in January for $4.75 million. Now the property is listed at $11.7 million. That's after a major redo by owners Nick and Linda DeLeo and Sutton Designs Ltd.

The house, built in 1998, was a 10,000-square-foot Colonial. Now it's a 12,500-square-foot-plus traditional with eight bedrooms and nine bathrooms.

The gated tennis-court estate, on more than an acre of manicured grounds, has a gourmet kitchen.

Gray, 40, won a Grammy in 2001 for best pop female vocal performance for "I Try."

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