The deal for the roughly 16,000-square-foot Brentwood home is one of the city’s priciest so far this year.
Hip-hop superstar Kendrick Lamar has signed a deal to pay more than $40 million for a home in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, according to people familiar with the deal.
If it closes, the deal will be among the priciest in Los Angeles this year. Ultraluxury sales have softened in the city since the introduction of a new property tax on major transactions last year.
The seller is a trust tied to Viet Dinh and his wife, Jennifer Ashworth Dinh, who paid $19.5 million for the house in 2019, according to property records. Viet Dinh is the former chief legal and policy officer at Fox Corp., where he was the architect of an ill-fated legal strategy that resulted in a historic settlement agreement in favor of Dominion Voting Systems. (Fox Corp.and Wall Street Journal parent News Corp share common ownership.)
The Dinhs declined to comment, and Lamar couldn’t immediately be reached for comment.
The home wasn’t formally on the market at the time of the sale. A listing for the property from 2019 described a roughly 16,000-square-foot estate on just under an acre with an eight-bedroom main house, a wine cellar, a gym, a pool and a guesthouse.
It wasn’t clear if the Dinhs had made changes to the property since that listing appeared.
Lamar, a Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper known for hits like “Humble” and “Alright,” has made headlines in recent weeks for his feud with rapper Drake, with the two stars exchanging diss tracks.
Real-estate agents involved in the deal included Cindy Ambuehl and Morgan Trent of Christie’s International Real Estate and Mark Norton of Palm Realty Boutique.
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