First house, then marriage? Iggy Azalea and Nick Young buy Selena Gomez's estate
Young celebrity couple Iggy Azalea and Nick Young recently bought the house in the Valley that Selena Gomez owned and remodeled. They paid Gomez $3.45 million, just under her $3.495 million asking price.
The property is nearly an acre in the Valley -- the Tarzana section of Los Angeles, to be exact, only about four miles from the high school where Young played basketball 10 years ago. He's now 29 and an L.A. Laker. (Click here or on a photo for a slideshow of the property.)
Does this mean a wedding is in the cards for rapper Azalea, 24, and her athlete love? "It's come up a couple times," he admitted to DuJour.com.
"Me and Iggy just bought a house. We’ve been getting really close lately. I’ve never been with somebody like this. So, I’m taking it as a challenge."
His own parents have been married nearly 40 years, he said, and “growing up, I always wanted to be married and have a family."
Their love story started about a year ago, after he announced on Twitter that he had a crush on her, DuJour.com reported:
"He remembers being caught off guard when he met the fast-rapping, smack-talking Azalea in person. 'From her songs, I thought she'd be all about going to clubs and partying, but it's the opposite of that,' he says. 'She wakes up early every morning to take care of her dogs, and she cooks for me. From her rapping, I was very surprised that she could do all that. She's a really cool, down-to-earth person.'"
The house they just bought was radically remodeled by Gomez, who expanded the house by about 2,000 square feet, during the couple of years she owned it.
The house last sold for $2,175,000 in 2011. She listed it this past May.
Marketed as a "Valley compound," the home is surrounded by security gates. A guest suite upstairs has a separate entrance of its own, a kitchen and two bathrooms.
In all, the property has 6 bedrooms and 8 bathrooms in its 6,630 square feet.
(h/t Variety, Los Angeles Times)
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