Rush Limbaugh’s Longtime Palm Beach Home Sells for $155 Million

Wall Street Journal ^ | 03/09/2023 | E.B. Solomont

[SeekAndFind]

The longtime Palm Beach, Fla., home of the late conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh has sold for $155 million, according to property records.

The roughly 2.7-acre waterfront property was quietly on the market last year, asking $150 million to $175 million, The Wall Street Journal reported.

The sale is a record deal for Palm Beach, according to property records and real-estate appraisal firm Miller Samuel. In 2013, hedge-funder Ken Griffin paid $129.6 million for four parcels. Last year, Oracle Corp. co-founder and chairman Larry Ellison purchased a $173 million home in nearby Manalapan, Fla., setting a record for that area.

Located on tony North Ocean Boulevard, the compound has multiple structures, including a large main house built in West Indies style. The property has roughly 250 feet of ocean frontage and direct access to the beach, records show.

Mr. Limbaugh, a talk-radio icon who died in 2021, purchased the property for $3.9 million in 1998 through a limited liability company, records show. The seller was a trust tied to his widow, Kathryn Adams Limbaugh.

The roughly 24,000-square-foot main house was largely decorated by Limbaugh himself, according to the 2010 book “An Army of One” by Zev Chafets. A vast salon was meant to invoke Versailles, the book said, and a dining room chandelier was a replica of the one in New York’s Plaza Hotel.

[SeekAndFind]

The longtime Palm Beach, Fla., home of the late Rush Limbaugh has sold for $155 million. RUSH LIMBAUGH ESTATE

[ansel12]

Rush would like that “The sale is a record deal for Palm Beach”.

[peggybac]

Where does his wife live now?

[Hambone 1934]

Just what the new owners want...Splash it all over the net

[Captain Peter Blood]

It’s a matter of public record in the county office, it’s in the paper. There is no secret.

[PROCON]

Of interest

[Nervous Tick]

>> There is no secret.

Folks that buy a property like that don’t WANT it to be a secret. ;-)

[House Atreides]

The new owners can add flood lights pointed toward the beach. There’s a joke in there and long time Rush fans will understand.

[Jonty30]

She’s lived most of her life in Florida, so she is probably still there.

[drSteve78]

Shine those lights at McConnell!

[smokingfrog]

Them’s some nice digs!

[stig]

The new owners can add flood lights pointed toward the beach. There’s a joke in there and long time Rush fans will understand.

That's to attract Sen. Mitch McConnell

[House Atreides]

Well, Rush was admonished to not disturb the turtles.🎄☘️👏👏

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

Rush used to talk about those sea turtles and the ban on lighting certain times of the year when they were nesting.

I remember that!

[linMcHlp]

bkmk

[cicero2k]

15.7% compound annual appreciation.

[bigdaddy45]

And wife #4, who was cheating on him, gets the money.

[DoughtyOne]

The pain of growing older isn’t the personal joints and slowing down.

It’s the loss of such great people who shove off before you do.

[Track9]

Turtles

[1_Rain_Drop]

"It isn’t clear if the property has been updated since the book was published, and real-estate agents said it might be considered a teardown because today’s buyers prefer more contemporary designs. "

Who would dare tear down Rush's mansion?

Real estate dudes are a bit wacky.