Jennifer Aniston could soon join Montecito’s list of celebrity residents
(Picture: ES)Back in California the Duke and Duchess of Sussex may soon count another member of Hollywood “royalty” among their neighbours.
The Morning Show star Jennifer Aniston has reportedly bought real-life TV host Oprah Winfrey’s farmhouse in the Montecito enclave Harry and Meghan call home.
She is thought to have paid $14.8 million (£12.6 million) for the new four-bedroom house, adding it to a portfolio that already includes a spectacular A. Quincy Jones–designed Bel Air mansion where, in 2015, she married her now ex-husband Justin Theroux.
The farmhouse-style, Montecito home was once part of a bigger plot. Ms Winfrey purchased and divided it last year, recently selling two small cottages to her longtime personal trainer Bob Greene for $2.3 million (£1.96m).
In Santa Barbara County, on California's central coast, Montecito's A-list residents include Gwyneth Paltrow, Ellen DeGeneres and Ariana Grande.
Ms Winfrey's main home is the sprawling 66-acre Promised Land estate, also in Montecito, where she famously sat down with the Sussexes for their tell-all interview which aired in March 2021.
At around the same time, Ms Winfrey also bought actor Jeff Bridge’s four-acre Spanish-Revival estate nearby.
Ms Winfrey has since said she hopes the couple can use the "opportunity for peacemaking" as they reunite with the royal family in the UK to mourn the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
