Kobe Bryant drops price 3rd time on mansion with hair salon, shark tank
In spite of the shark tank, in spite of the trendy in-house beauty salon, in spite of the gym as big as some people's houses, basketball star Kobe Bryant is having a hard time selling his longtime mansion in Newport Beach, California.
The house has been on the market for almost a year and a half, and just sustained its third price cut since its initial listing. It was put up for sale in August 2013 at $8,599,000. (Click here or on a photo for a slideshow.)
Bryant and his wife, Vanessa, are now asking $6,995,000 for the four-bedroom, seven-bath, 8,500-square-foot home. It's on about half an acre at the end of a cul-de-sac in the wealthy Newport Coast neighborhood — and, according to the listing, it has "unobstructed ocean and city light views" from its vantage about two miles from the Pacific Ocean.
The Bryants bought the home as newlyweds in 2002, when contemporary news accounts pegged the purchase price at $4 million. They had married less than a year earlier, when he was 22 and she was 18.
The home's decorating scheme has been described as "beige and champagne." The shark tank is in the paneled office/library, maybe to cultivate a killer business instinct (or just a voracious appetite for reading). The 850-square-foot gym occupies about a tenth of the mansion's square footage.
The hair salon was reportedly built for Vanessa's benefit — which would make sense, given the fact that Kobe is bald.
But then again, he recently received an $800 "grooming" treatment that was "primarily for hair," so who knows?
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