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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Rupert Neate Wealth correspondent

Rihanna’s former London rental mansion sells for £27.5m

Rihanna at the 2019 British Fashion Awards in London.
Rihanna at the 2019 British Fashion Awards in London. The singer lived in the St John’s Wood home from 2028 to 2020. Photograph: Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP

A London mansion that Rihanna was renting for £18,000 a week has been sold to an undisclosed Chinese buyer for £27.5m.

The sale of the eight-bedroom, 588 square metre (6,332 sq ft) St John’s Wood house, which became famous for its role in the background of the singer’s social media posts, was agreed on Monday for almost £5m less than it was originally listed for in 2020.

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