Kenny Chesney lists Malibu home for $7.95 million
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The singer is selling the Carbon Canyon house he just bought in February.
Kenny Chesney must have gotten word about the Malibu dress code: It's baseball caps, dude, not cowboy hats.
What other possible explanation is there for the country music legend to have bought a house in the Carbon Canyon neighborhood for $7.4 million in February and then promptly re-listed it for sale at $7.95 million?
The home, which was listed at
$7.5 million when Chesney bought it a nanosecond ago, has expansive ocean views. There's a large farmhouse kitchen and oversized open living areas, surrounded by outdoor verandas. The property includes an outdoor Italian oven and barbecue and a vineyard -- all the better to keep the large temperature-controlled wine cellar filled.
Lush gardens and lawns surround the mosaic-tiled infinity pool, and there are two guesthouses.
According to the Multiple Listing Service, the home has five bedrooms and five bathrooms in 3,723 square feet -- plenty of room for Chesney's signature blue armchair, had he wanted to move it in.
Just a few days before closing escrow in late February on the Malibu place, Chesney listed one of his properties on the U.S. Virgin Island of St. John at $14 million. Built in 1979, the Stoneridge House includes a 10,657-square-foot masonry main house with oversized windows providing sweeping views of Caneel Bay and the island's north shore.
It has seven bedrooms and seven bathrooms and sits on 1.7 acres. There is a pool, hot tub and a 9,157-square-foot deck.
While on the island, Chesney is known to hang out at Woody's Seafood Saloon, a rollicking Cruz Bay bar that features an outside pickup window for drink orders on the go. (Frommer's calls Woody's a "dive," but perhaps the aesthetics of the establishment are simply elusive to some.)
Presumably Chesney picked a better site than Woody's for the reception when he married actress Renée Zellweger in May 2005 on a St. John beach. Then again, the marriage was over by the end of that year.
Chesney, a three-time Academy of Country Music entertainer of the year, filled stadiums and arenas on his 2007 "Flip-Flop Summer Tour." His music blends country with rock and has enough of the laid-back Caribbean influence to recall Jimmy Buffett. Chesney's hits include "No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems," "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy," "Back Where I Come From," and "When the Sun Goes Down."
