Kanye West’s Malibu $57m mansion remains stripped-back concrete eyesore
Kanye West’s $57 million dollar Malibu mansion has been left “rotting” from the inside out, less than two years after the rapper bought it and hired an acclaimed architect to renovate it.
Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, purchased the 4,000-square-foot oceanfront property in September 2021, which boasts giant windows overlooking the sea.
He enlisted the help of architect Tadao Ando and enlisted top contractors to oversee the extensive remodeling plans.
But by the following summer, renovations stopped and the gutted, windowless mansion stood empty. Months later, Ye was dropped by multiple business partners and brands for his anti-Semitic outbursts.
Ye’s neighbors in Malibu told TMZ that his mansion was “rotting” and that they had “not seen anyone in months.”
Kanye West’s $57 million mansion in Malibu has been left ‘rotting’ from the inside out, less than two years after she bought the property and hired an acclaimed architect to renovate it
Top contractors were hired to carry out extensive renovation plans. But by the following summer, renovations stopped and the gutted, windowless mansion stood empty
Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, purchased the 4,000-square-foot Tadao Ando-designed property, a massive oceanfront home in Malibu, in September 2021
Ye was previously seen on the ground last summer to review progress, but his empire has since dramatically imploded after launching several anti-Semitic diatribes, which were the last straw after decades of bizarre behavior and embarrassing meltdowns.
His anti-Semitic tirades also led to the loss of about $1.6 billion from his net worth and he fell off Forbes’ billionaire list. CBS news recently reported.
And while his expensive plans clearly fell apart, he ironically flew into a new marriage to an architect, wedding Yeezy’s head of architecture Bianca Censori in January.
The mansion has been left bare, as shown in new photos (pictured) The floor-to-ceiling windows facing the sea have been removed, leaving that side open to all elements
The inside of the house appears to be crumbling and the metal railings rust after being exposed to the salty air, wind and water
The house here is empty and there are no renovations in sight
Ye’s Malibu neighbors told TMZ his mansion was “rotting” and they had “not seen anyone in months”
But the mansion has remained bare, as can be seen in new photos. The huge floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the ocean have been removed, leaving that side open to all the elements.
The inside of the house appears to be crumbling and the metal railings rust after being exposed to the salty air, wind and water.
While a fan posted in 2021 that the ‘Malibu house is basically the block of my dreams,” others have since noticed it descending into desperation.
In late 2022, at the time Ye was spouting anti-Semitic comments, a person tweeted “someone put a ‘Happy Hanukkah’ banner on Kanye’s ugly a** home in Malibu.”
Ye’s empire has dramatically imploded after he launched several anti-Semitic tirades, which were the last straw after decades of bizarre behavior and embarrassing meltdowns.
While one fan posted in 2021 that the “Malibu house is basically the pillow of my dreams,” others have since found it falling into desperation
In late 2022, at the time Ye was making anti-Semitic remarks, a person tweeted “someone put a ‘Happy Hanukkah’ banner on Kanye’s ugly a** house in Malibu”
Ye has several other accommodations around the country, most recently staying at his Bianca Censori, another in the Los Angeles area, including Nobu Ryokan, where rooms cost more than $2,000 a night.
He also owns a sprawling ranch in Calabasas, Los Angeles, which he bought for an estimated $3 million in 2019.
At that building 50-foot-tall “Yecosystems,” structures he hoped would house LA’s rampant homeless population while also serving as the backdrop for Sunday Service, the gospel choir project he eventually took to Coachella.
West built the domes through the architecture arm of his Yeezy label, called Yeezy Home, which he launched in 2018. “We are looking for architects and industrial designers who want to make the world a better place,” he said at the time.
Despite dropping out of almost all of his collaborations, including lucrative deals with Adidas and Balenciaga, the rapper has been forging his own business plans and filing trademark applications under the name Yecosystem.
The disgraced rapper built the domes, pictured in July 2019, to house the homeless, and he even considered building entire cities with the Star Wars-inspired grilles
Shocking new footage revealed West’s Calabasas ranch is abandoned, where scattered trash and a stranded dune buggy are all that remain
Included in the submitted documents were business plans for a home design service, residential buildings and even retail stores, ostensibly intended to provide services to its prospective tenants.
But not long after he first built the domes in California, in September 2019, West fell foul of California housing regulations after failing to obtain a building permit.
After never getting one, the domes would be torn down – the start of his real estate woes.
In his trademark bombastic style, West attempted another architectural experiment in “affordable housing” after buying a sprawling Wyoming ranch, which he gobbled up when he reportedly became “obsessed” with the Midwest state several years ago.
Aerial photos of the rapper’s ranch in Wyoming from July 2020 revealed he was once again building the enigmatic domes on his “Monster Lake” property
In new images from March 2023, West appears to be building his Wyoming domes from a concrete-like material, leaving the structures on the abandoned ranch when DailyMail.com visited the scene
Bought for an eye-watering $14 million in 2019, the rapper began hedging his bets for success in his outlandish contraptions.
More than 1,000 miles from his troubled Calabasas estate, West envisioned Wyoming’s wide-open plains as the perfect setting for expanding his unorthodox real estate aspirations.
Again aiming to erect the outlandish contraptions, the rapper mimicked his California prototypes — except this time he seemed to use concrete-like walls instead of the wooden and material gratings he tried on the West Coast.
Footage from July 2020 showed the ranch to be a bustling hot spot of development, with countless vehicles on the property as workers hammered into the structures.
But now, after the collapse of its fortunes and shattered public image, new photos of the “Monster Lake Ranch” show it has essentially foundered.