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Tyler Perry's Atlanta Mansion Sells To Steve Harvey & Sets Another Record!
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Tyler Perry’s Atlanta Mansion Sells To Steve Harvey & Sets Another Record!
Inventive, creative powerhouse Tyler Perry has charmed his film audiences with his acting, writing and production skills generating massive wealth over $600 million well before the age of 50. He has homes in the Bahamas, Wyoming, Texas, Mulholland Estates in Los Angeles (currently on loan to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle), but chooses to live and work in Georgia on his 1,100-acre property where his film studios are located. Partial to the Atlanta area, his longtime home was a palatial mansion in the Paces Ferry community of Buckhead, which he built in 2007 on 17 acres of prime land overlooking the Chattahoochee River. When he sold it for $17.5 million in 2016, it was the highest-priced home in the history of the city. That buyer has sold it once again for $15 million - still the highest-priced home in Atlanta.
Over the top for laid-back Atlanta, Perry built his home with a design based on the Palace of Versailles, but added features that would have left King Louis XIV speechless. In addition to a helipad, the 34,688-square-foot home has seven bedrooms and fourteen baths, stately formal rooms, a two-story library, infinity-edge swimming pool outside, resistance pool inside, lighted tennis court on top of a two-story parking garage, fully equipped gym, spa, theater, hobby house and an underground ballroom with catering kitchen. There are both formal and informal gardens, an entire estate generator, guard house, caretaker’s suite and presidential-level security system including two gated and secured residential entrances.
Perry didn’t hold back when it came to formal landscaping. Tyler originally spent about $40 million to build the home and a good portion of the money went into full grown plants, trees and topiary shrubs. Lush greenery that now spills out into terraced formal gardens from the house with paths twisting through the trees, flowers and plants. The grounds include an outdoor pool with a Versailles-style painting on the bottom and seating areas among fountains where guests can relax on bar stools while enjoying drinks and conversation with swimmers. The house and grounds could easily accommodate over a hundred guests with plenty of space left over.
Televangelist David Turner purchased the house from Perry in 2016 and turned it into a production studio for a web-based Christian TV network, Jesus Live TV, and has now sold it to comedian, talk-show-host and self-help author Steve Harvey for $15 million. The agent for the Perry property, Chase Mizell of Atlanta Fine Homes Sotheby’s, listed the home for both the sale to Turner and the sale to Harvey.
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Atlanta Mansion With Helipad, Built By Tyler Perry, Sells For $15 Million
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By Nancy A. Ruhling
| | Mansion Global
A super-tricked-out Atlanta mansion with a helipad, an illuminated tennis court and an underground ballroom that was built by actor Tyler Perry has just been sold for $15 million.
The double-gated Buckhead estate, which is set on nearly 17 acres in the city’s exclusive Paces neighborhood, was sold on May 26, according to property records.
The listing agent, Chase Mizell of Atlanta Fine Homes Sotheby’s International Realty, said that the sales price is a record for the city of Atlanta this year-which listing records from Zillow confirm.
“When Tyler Perry sold it in 2016 for $17.5 million, it was and remains the city’s highest price,” he said. The house hit the market in 2018 for $25 million, when it was the priciest home for sale in the state of Georgia.
The identity of the buyer could not immediately be determined as property records have not yet been updated.
The seller, businessman-turned-televangelist David Turner, bought the property in 2016 from Mr. Tyler for $17.5 million, according to property records. Mr. Mizell was the listing agent for that transaction also.
Mr. Turner, the founder of SunTree Snack Foods, sold his company and moved from Phoenix to Atlanta after he bought the colossal estate and turned it into a production studio for a web-based Christian TV network, Jesus Live TV.
Mr. Turner and his family are moving to South Florida, Mr. Mizell said. Mr. Tyler built the house in 2007, which, Mr. Mizell previously told Mansion Global, cost some $40 million.
The Versailles-like property, which fronts the Chattahoochee River, features a main residence that has 34,688 square feet of living space, seven bedrooms, nine full bathrooms, five half bathrooms, staff quarters and an in-law suite.
There’s also a guest house and a five-car garage on the property.
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“In terms of acreage, it’s one of the largest estates in all of Atlanta,” Mr. Mizell said. “It’s also one of the largest single-family residences in the city, and it has the most exclusive amenity package of any estate in Atlanta. The neighborhood, Paces, is one of the exclusive and has the most expensive ZIP Code in the city.”
Styled like a European five-star resort, its amenities, he said, include a helipad; a tennis court; a ballroom; a 70,000-gallon infinity-edge swimming pool; a grand, central staircase leading to the entry; an in-home fitness center; a spa; a professional-style movie theater; an indoor resistance pool; a library; an elevator; formal gardens and an outdoor courtyard festooned with fountains.
Mr. Turner did not respond to emails requesting comment.
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At the dawn of his creative career, Gone Girl star Tyler Perry spent the night in a car, unable to pay rent. Now, according to Forbes, his fortune reaches $ 1 billion. Hard work helped the showman to go this way - and the secret that he learned from Oprah Winfrey
"Damn, it's hot today," says Tyler Perry. He is not looking for easy ways, so he comes to the shooting of the comedy series "Sisters" for BET in all black - only a white mask stands out. Perry avoided working in Atlanta's scorching July sun last year, but in this pandemic era, every opportunity to film is seized, and his quarantine camp at Tyler Perry Studios is trying to adjust to the new filmmaking landscape.
“Get out of the car,” he yells at the actor in the police car, who then moves into a silver pickup truck. Behind the wheel is a member of the main cast Devale Ellis. Perry gives him a line: "What should I do?" It seems that no one has seen the script at all. When you need to film an entire primetime season in just 11 days—and be there before the people of Hollywood come out of lockdown—you have to cut corners.
At the end of filming, sitting on a folding metal chair in the center of a spacious set with a pack of Lysol tissues at his feet, 51-year-old Perry explains his method: “Mostly, I go on a hunch and rely on my gut. I like to challenge the system and see what I can do differently.”
When the whole system turns on you, this strategy is winning. In Hollywood, all the doors were closed in front of Perry's nose and even eminent black directors refused to work with him - for example, Spike Lee once ridiculed Perry's grotesque caricature approach, calling it "buffoonery and clownery" (later he regretted it).
However, Perry was successful for two reasons: First, he perfected a product that many thought should have been in the markdown department. Secondly, Perry fussed over to completely control him.
The showman owns all of his creative output, which includes more than 1,200 episodes of shows and TV series, 22 feature films, and at least a couple of dozen plays. He also owns more than 130 hectares of land on the southern outskirts of Atlanta, where the studio bearing his name is located. He took advantage of his favorable position when signing a contract with ViacomCBS: now the media holding pays him $150 million annually for new content and gave him a stake in the streaming service BET +, launched last September. Tyler Perry has earned more than $1.4 billion (before taxes) since 2005, according to Forbes. He spent the money on the purchase of real estate in Atlanta, New York, Los Angeles, the resort town of Jackson Hole in Wyoming, as well as on the purchase of two aircraft.
Not a bad lifestyle for a once-homeless playwright who grew up in poverty in New Orleans. Today, Forbes believes that Perry's fortune reaches $1 billion, and in the near future he can be seen in the ranking of the 400 richest Americans.
“I love it when people say 'humble origins',” the comedian shares. “That means you were almost a beggar.” But that only makes the success even sweeter. “Possession changes everything,” adds Perry.
Birth of Madea
Perry's love for acting manifested itself in childhood - then he made his mother laugh with various parodies. At that time, he had to deal not only with poverty: he says that he grew up in a family with a violent man who, as it turned out later, was not even his father. To throw out the accumulated stress on paper, young Tyler was inspired by the release of the Oprah Winfrey talk show.
Until the age of 30, Perry toured small theaters in America with plays of his own composition, which he himself produced and in which he himself acted - it was a kind of introductory course to future achievements.
“Don't forget that I didn't have mentors,” notes the showman. - My father does not understand business, my uncles and mother also do not understand anything about it. I didn't go to business school. Everything I learned, I learned along the way.”
After Perry was expelled from high school, he tried to accumulate knowledge in any way possible. In his early 20s, he worked at the Windsor Court Hotel in New Orleans, where the annual National Association of Television Program Executives conference was held. Young Perry took his forgotten badges and went to closed meetings. One of the most remarkable events for him was his acquaintance with the host of the TV show Pat Sajak.
Perry began writing screenplays while working as a car salesman and collector. Over time, he somehow managed to save up $ 12,000 - he used the money to rent space at the district theater in Atlanta in order to realize his creative ideas.
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His play Something Changed in Me was about children who have experienced adult abuse. She did not receive special recognition from the audience. At one time, the performance did not even bring enough money to pay the rent, so the future showman had to spend the night in his own car for three months. During this period, he rewrote the script and corrected the shortcomings of the production - and only after that the play began to gain popularity. Perry furnished the stage himself, printed the booklets, hung the lighting, and even sold snacks during the intermission.
“I don't know how many days it took me to convince him that a playwright and director don't do that sort of thing,” says Arthur Primas, the comedian's agent for more than twenty years.
Perry toured relentlessly and slowly built up a loyal following among black Americans, especially older women like his mother, who regularly attended church services, weighed down by worries, but who wanted someone to listen to them, or better yet, make them laugh. His legendary character Madea, a straightforward grandmother in a bad wig with a big belly and even bigger breasts, broadcast her homegrown moralism with her inherent honesty, sometimes reaching the point of absurdity. The heroine has become a must-see spectacle of the so-called black theater, a tacit association of small theaters in all corners of the United States.
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“I knew there were some traveling shows, but I never took them seriously. I have always appreciated the usual theater and Broadway more,” says Oprah Winfrey. “But once I went to a performance in Los Angeles, and it didn’t just touch me - it changed something in me.”
She invited Perry to her talk show in 2001, when he was in his early 30s. On camera, they talked passionately about determination and constant personal growth, but behind the scenes they found another topic to talk about - money. Winfrey by that time owned both her show and the Harpo company that produced it. She shared with Perry a secret that he was already beginning to comprehend for himself - how important it is to have complete control over the process.
Winfrey became a good friend to him, a spiritual mentor, and, perhaps most importantly, a motivator for change.
Even before he made his debut film or television series, Perry had earned more than $100 million in theater ticket sales, $20 million in merchandise sales, and another $30 million in recordings of his performances.
Now it was time to move to Hollywood.
Return to Atlanta
Acquaintance with the "dream factory" took place at the Wilshire Abell Theatre. The Italian-style building for 1200 spectators opened its doors at 1920s, when Los Angeles was just becoming the capital of entertainment and arts. In 2001, Perry reserved the venue for three nights to screen Diary of a Mad Black Woman. He expected that influential figures in the industry would come to the performance, who would later make him a real star - producers, film company managers, lawyers and wealthy patrons. The play was sold out, but tickets were bought not by powerful brokers, but by ordinary locals and assistants to some leaders sent to watch, which caused a stir.
"I couldn't even walk down the street without yelling 'Madea, Tyler, Madea!' says Perry about his travels with the play. - But then I came to Hollywood, and there is no sleep or spirit. No one had any idea what I had achieved, who I was, or what kind of audience I had.”
The assistants who attended the show included a man who worked for showrunner Chuck Lorre, best known for the hit series Grace on Fire, Cybill and Dharma & Greg. After learning about the play, he decided to create an entire sitcom with Perry's characters. Television companies did not like this, and as a result, Lorry moved on to work on the series "Two and a Half Men" with Charlie Sheen in the title role - subsequently, the CBS project won a resounding success among viewers.
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“For 10 years there was a deep lull and nobody did anything for people of color,” says Perry.
He returned to Atlanta and continued to work on theater productions and film scripts there. But do not forget about television. One of the ideas overheard at the televised conference meetings haunted him: getting his own film product into syndication—100 episodes, a loyal audience, and a willing broadcaster.
“I didn't know so much about Hollywood that today it seems amazing,” the comedian emphasizes.
He rented a warehouse behind a strip club in South Atlanta, turned it into a set, invested in equipment he didn't know much about - lights, tripods, microphones, sets - and started filming. Most of all, he was fascinated by scenes from the life of a black family, several generations of which live together in Atlanta. Subsequently, the material became the showman's debut sitcom.
The turning point came in 2006, when UPN and the WB, which were struggling to do business, merged to form a new network called The CW.
The young TV channel needed content, and Tyler Perry had it. He returned to Hollywood, this time armed with 10 full episodes of footage, paid for out of his own pocket and ready to go on the air. The CW acquired them and aired them under the name "Payne House". The series attracted much more viewers than originally expected. Perry was picked up by the management of the larger TBS channel. Even before filming new episodes, he was given guarantees that TBS would show its audience at least 90 episodes of a show that will be the sole owner of Perry. For leaving The CW, the network offered the comedian $200 million - pure gold for a TV production like this, in which neither writers, nor directors, nor producers, nor showrunners have to be paid separately. One of Hollywood's most in-demand agents even called it "prime-time level for the price of a soap opera." Perry himself made a whopping $138 million from the deal.
“It was so out of the box, such an unfamiliar paradigm,” said film and entertainment lawyer Dan Black, who says Perry’s contract is often cited in negotiation today.
“You can get a good fee and a good percentage of sales, but if you also own the product, that's impressive. Not everyone can brag about it."
Despite the fact that Perry's talent attracted crowds of admirers, Hollywood's executives were still overwhelmingly white, and it was not entirely clear to them. The comedian's attempts to reshoot The Diary did not go beyond suggestions to adjust the plot and adjust the picture to the tastes of a "wider" audience.
“Blacks who go to church don't go to the movies,” Perry recalls the words of an executive. “But I'm from where black people accepted and loved me. There I was - and still remain - really happy.
Therefore, ignorance of the others served as a new impetus for him to develop. Perry made a business proposal to Lionsgate CEO John Feltheimer: the comedian would give half of the filming funds, receive half of the income, and remain the owner of the content.
The film studio retained the right to deduct all marketing costs from the partner's share (Perry was confident that, given his audience, they would be minimal), as well as 12.5% of distribution costs. A nice bonus was that subsequently the materials became the full property of Perry.
"What do you expect from 'Dnevnik'?" Perry Feltheimer then asked.
“I would be very happy if it brings us $20 million,” replied the head of the film studio, referring to the box office for the entire run.
"I said, 'Great, so $20 million for the first weekend?' Perry recalls.
The Diary cost the creators $5.5 million, but grossed $51 million in theaters and another $150 million from video rentals, streaming platforms, DVD sales and television exposures.
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Lionsgate is now transferring control of the films to Perry. With the help of financial advisor John Carey of investment firm NextGen Capital, the comedian begins to push his product more internationally. He won special love of the viewer in South Africa, South America and some European countries. In parallel, Perry funds the production of hundreds of new episodes for television and at least one feature-length film each year.
Retribution in Rebellious Land
Ironically, Tyler Perry Studios, one of America's most prolific black entertainment film studios, was once a Confederate stronghold.
Known as Fort McPherson, the military base was used to house prisoners during the Spanish American and World Wars I. These historic brick homes and structures have hosted figures such as the 32nd U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and the 65th Secretary of State Colin Powell, while the beaten 18-hole golf course, according to Perry, once rivaled the exclusive club in Augusta on east Georgia. Perry used to live in a car parked nearby, but now his goal is to make the studio the backdrop to his own story of rising from poverty to riches.
Viewed from the outside, this is far from the most impressive piece of land: the north side is a long stretch of barbed wire, to the east is a full mile of railroad tracks, and to the south is the bustling SR 154 highway. The territory is located between two areas of Atlanta with middle-class homes that have seen better days. Some of them are decorated with bright landscaping, but on most the cladding has already faded and peeled off.
You can often see old mattresses thrown right into the street.
Be that as it may, outside the gates of the studio is a real paradise, which pleases Perry more than anyone else. Visiting the venue last fall, he rode a Polaris Ranger between the pavilions, which he opened and christened showbiz legends like Oprah Winfrey, Spike Lee, Sidney Poitier and Denzel Washington. As he drove, he named local landmarks—a shopping mall, a yacht, an empty pavilion, a house standing in front of four facades at once—and then, clattering past an abandoned golf course, pointed to his favorite new acquisition, a replica of the White House.
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which he himself calls the "dream building". - That's the difference.
Because everything belongs to me, I earn more.”
He paid $30 million for the property in 2015 and has since spent another $250 million to build a movie studio twice the size of the Warner Bros. in Burbank, California. He paid for everything with his own money, earned on numerous films and television projects over 15 years. The purchase was an extremely successful investment - Perry received a platform to create a high-class production company in a state that enjoys working with Hollywood directors. In addition, Perry got a huge plot of land right in the middle of the highly promising special economic zone of Atlanta.
“I love the land the way some women love shoes,” says Winfrey, one of the few people the showman showed territory to when he was thinking about getting one. “I said then: “If you don’t buy, I will.” I really liked the area. I was just in awe.
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In fact, only Tyler Perry could make such a deal. He has been based in Atlanta since The Diary came out in 2005. Over the next 15 years, he released at least one feature-length film a year and brought the public another 13 television series, almost all of which were filmed in or around the city.
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The moment for the acquisition was perfectly matched. In 2008, the Georgia Film Authority introduced many tax incentives for production companies. Perry bought the site in the midst of the streaming revolution that would spark a video production race that, in turn, skyrocketed demand for film sets.
Work at the studio is in full swing even during a pandemic. Last year, after Madea retired and her deal with Oprah Winfrey's OWN expired, Perry set his sights on BET, which has struggled to find a clear direction lately and has practically built streaming service BET+ on the comedian's work. Each year until 2025, the network will pay Perry $150 million to produce at least 90 new episodes of the TV show. Streaming platform BET+, which hit one million subscribers in August, and other Viacom-owned organizations will be given exclusive rights to broadcast these shows for five years. They will also be able to rerun shows such as Payne Home, Meet the Browns and For Good or Bad, as well as some of Perry's early theater work. After five years, the rights to all shows funded by BET will return to the owner. By the way, the debut seasons of the first two projects ("Oval Office" and "Sisters") became the highest rated programs in the channel's broadcast schedule.
What was the icing on the cake? “I don’t have to give up the competition,” the showman replies, which means one thing: there will be more new projects like The Fall, which was released on Netflix in January and received extremely negative reviews, although it was watched 26 million times in its first week. In addition, he plans to finance the film production of other black directors who have remained unnoticed in Hollywood.
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Meanwhile, in Georgia, counting on tax breaks, profits and other industry players who want to snatch their own. Perry has rented space at his studio for big-budget productions, including Disney's Black Panther, the Bad Boys for Life sequel with Will Smith, and the TV series The Walking Dead.
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While the studio is bustling with activity, Perry explores how Disney and Universal are gentrifying their territories. Now the comedian is also planning to build restaurants, shops and an entertainment complex with a theater and theme park. You get something like Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville restaurants, only with a flavor of the cuisine of the southern states. The showman admits that such an undertaking will have to go beyond the comfort zone both in terms of scale and control of the business, and in terms of borrowed funds, because the comedian's empire has always relied on personal financing without the help of any credit. Perry's plans now include providing housing for trafficked women and LGBT youth.
Among other things, he plans to open an academy, where children who grew up in the same conditions as himself learned what they had not taught him at one time - financial literacy, for example.
Either way, it's worth the risk. “I can go out into the street, take a handful of earth, and remember that Confederate soldiers once walked on it, plotting how to rein in us blacks,” says Perry. “But the mere fact that I am now standing on this earth, that hundreds of people – also black people – come here to earn a living, this alone changes a lot.”
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Harry and Meghan's serial "house": what the interiors look like
Prince Harry attacks the royal family again.
This time in a book. First, there was a documentary film with millions of views, which was filmed in this mansion.
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The journalists have already read Harry's book. Be that as it may, the "Spare" opus promises to become another grandiose scandal. Ardent anti-royalists argue that this is literally the final nail in the coffin of the British monarchy. Harry really isn't shy about expressing himself. So, even the title of the book is a disparaging nickname given to him by his father, the current King Charles III, obviously not intended for other people's ears.
The book contains many frank confessions and violent attacks against the ex-family.
And there were rumors that the prince was going to make peace! If so, then he chose the strangest possible way. Be that as it may, the ducal couple (Harry and Meghan officially bear the titles of the Duke and Dukes of Sussex) need to provide for themselves, and the royalties for the book exceeded any conceivable royal income.
The couple not only broke with their relatives, but also with Harry's homeland, leaving for Megan's homeland. Today they live in the USA. They settled in the town of Montecito, with Megan's friend actor Tyler Perry. And then they bought their own house. This mansion is located in Montecito just next door to Perry's house, and it was he who was chartered for the filming of the sensational series. Now, when the owners have decided to sell it, even this brief (and somewhat dubious) connection with the British crown has affected the price immediately jumped up. They want more than 30 million dollars for the house.
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Of course, the love story of Harry and Meghan was in the focus of attention, but the bullying by the prince's relatives took up many minutes of the story.
Cinema House is a classic California villa. The architecture is in the spirit of Southern Italy. The interiors are quiet classics. The facade is remembered for its wide arched openings. The mansion is surrounded by terraces, where it is good to wait out the summer heat.
Inside there are six bedrooms (if you measure the villa by American real estate standards), a grand dining room, a luxurious living room with an impressive chandelier (Megan appears in the frame more than once in this room), a fireplace room, a study in a tree and an absolutely epic cinema room.
Around the house there is a park with a flower garden. And a rural idyll has been recreated. There is, for example, a real chicken coop.
But there is also a large pool, bar and games area. There is a separate house for guests.
Montecito, by the way, is well known to fans of Hollywood celebrities. Gwyneth Paltrow and Kim Kardashian are here. From the stars of the political scene: the most beautiful Kennedy couple spent a month here. Oprah Winfrey also lives.
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