One of the first celebrity houses I featured when I started this blog was Billy Joel’s beach house in the Hamptons. He was a newlywed at the time, having just married 23-year old Katie Lee, and insisted in interviews that he would have fallen for her even if she were 30 years older than he was. (Really? Because it’s hard to imagine he’d find her as attractive as an 85-year old…)
But I digress. Here’s a photo of the great room in their beach house that I showed you then:
He and Katie had just gone on Oprah to discuss their marriage and his trip to rehab (April 2008). On that show, Katie gave us a tour of their fab West Village townhouse in New York, decorated by Nate Berkus.
Now that the couple has split, the townhouse is on the market for $12.9 million.
Katie showed off her favorite meatloaf recipe for Oprah viewers in the dining room:
Here’s how the dining room looks in the listing today:
Because cooking is Katie’s thing (she wrote a cookbook and hosted the first season of “Top Chef” on Bravo), there is a “chef’s kitchen” that includes a 6-burner Wolf stove:
(Is that a cat sleeping in the corner?)
You can watch the video tour on Oprah.com. For more information, check out the listing. More photos and info on the rumors that LeBron James might be buying it on Huffington Post.
To see my original post about Billy Joel’s beach house in the Hamptons, click here.
Visit my Celebrity Houses page to see more, from Daryl Hall’s Revolutionary War-Era Colonial to Alan Jackson’s “Tara.”
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Julia, fabulous townhome! Isn’t it interesting how things do change! Maybe Billy left her for an 85 yr old! I haven’t kept up with his love life though………..
Karena
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Love, love, love the townhouse especially the kitchen and the gorgeous black framed window. It hasn’t changed much from when it was in Domino and Oprah. Lucky person who buys it.
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Beautiful house!!! I love it!
kisses
Etta
Off to buy a lottery ticket! We have been working on the concept of downsizing and possibly moving back to the city…now if only I had that …what is it? Oh right … 12 million! This would be the place for us…beautiful home.
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23…seriously? Don’t these men get tired of women 23 years mentally younger than they are? Wait, lemme think…I could maybe do that, if I had the money to attract a 23-yr-old.
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I loved this house in Domino. Interesting that they are splitting up, always thought they were an odd couple.
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I about lost it when I saw this townhouse on Oprah, and Nate behind the decorating on top of it all!! Simply too fabulous, too bad it didn’t help make for a fabulous marriage…Janell
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Gorgeous! Of course if Nate Burkus designed it, how could it not be?
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What a beautiful home. Love it! Too bad about the couple though.
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The town home is gorgeous. I really love it and can’t wait to follow the link to more photos. Thanks for posting it.
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Billy Joel’s music is timeless. His marriages, not so much. But he certainly has good taste in living spaces!
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There aren’t to many celebrity homes I like but this one is absolutely gorgeous. Thanks for bringing it to us!
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I have to say it. She’s too old for him being, what 26, maybe! He he
Anyways, beautiful home!
They broke up?! Really?? I am shocked.
I remember seeing them on Oprah and being so envious that she got Nate to decorate for her. I like the light fixtures over the kitchen island!
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I could comfortably make that my NYC digs!! Maybe they split up because she is getting too old for him.
Love,
Susan and Bentley
xxoo
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Great town house. It has alot of nice colors.
I’m not sad they are separating, he’s too old for her. Why doesn’t Katie go out and marry a guy her age and have a family? For someone her age, to marry a guy that’s in their 50′s, 60′s, or older, is wrong. They have children together, the dad will only live to see their kids be in their 20′s or 30′s.
I don’t always love beach houses (I know, I’m weird) but I would kill for the high ceiling in that living room. Beautiful kitchen, too!
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I love how the house is so light and airy.
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I want a window feature in my kitchen! I think my dream kitchen requirements just changed drastically!
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Hi From down under , love Billy Joels high beamed ceiling in his house . Has given me an idea to lighten my beams up by painting them cream. I am now addicted to this blog . Carole
Whoa! Oh, to have some extra cash in the bank!
Oh man, this place is nice!! It’s glam but relaxed. I never saw that episode of Oprah, now I wish I had. Lucky buyer who ever it turns out to be
Nancy
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I think I’m having a New York state of mind, as well as a Hampton’s state of mind! Lots of white in both homes..I love it!
I think you’d have to drag me in off the deck facing the ocean in the Hamptons, what a view. I do have almost the same awning, but that’s where the similarity ends. LOL!
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This reminds me of Neil Simon’s townhouse in the movie about his life with Marsha Mason, Chapter. Two. Only instead of the kitchen being on the same level as the dining room, a staircase went downstairs at the back of the stairs going upstairs, and the kitchen was down there, which I prefer.
I watched the movie Author, Author with Al Pacino and Tuesday Weld and that apartment with all the kids is one you might want to look at.
Movin’ on up and out…the place somehow looks a little sad in the listing photos, like it lost its sparkle. xo xo
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Beautiful townhouse…great interior design.
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It’s a black pug.
Krista–
I wondered about that, since there was a black pug following Katie around in the tour she gave. It just looked more like a cat in that photo to me. -Julia
I love it. This house I can live in. Forget the castle!
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Sad when anyone splits up…. but this does look like a very appealing home.
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I thought he gave her the condo as a gift……Now she needs to sell it??
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gorgeous apartment..Id take it, well..if I had the $$$
Have a great holiday, dear girl!
xx
Lisa
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