EMILY PRESCOTT: Jude Law leaves her star-studded north London celebrity enclave after selling her £13m home
Once London’s most star-studded street, home to the likes of George Michael, Kate Moss and Jamie Oliver over the years.
But former celebrity enclave The Grove in Highgate, north London, has lost another celebrity resident after Jude Law sold his mansion for £13m.
I understand that the Fantastic Beasts actor, then his wife Phillipa Coan and their two young children have now bought a country house.
Documents from the Land Registry show that the father of seven children transferred the deeds to a software mogul in November. He’s a billionaire, but hardly separate from the show business the locals have grown accustomed to.
Residents are used to seeing A-list names on the cobbled street, but there has been a celebrity exodus since George Michael died in 2016. He is buried in the nearby Gothic Cemetery.
Jude Law and his family have sold their North London stack and are moving to the country.
The Highgate enclave was once home to the likes of Gerri Halliwell, pictured
Kate Moss sold in 2021 and moved to the Cotswolds after being paid £11m
Jude’s departure seems to spell the end of an era for the Georgian terrace, which was built in 1688.
In June of last year, Jamie Oliver sold and moved permanently into his stately Essex estate. Kate Moss was sold in 2021.
Jamie’s former estate was bought last summer for £15m. In November, The Mail on Sunday reported that Soho Estates was redeveloping it.
Kate Moss sold her house at number 3 for £11 million, after deciding to move full-time to her second home in the Cotswolds.
I heard Kate’s daughter, Lila, 20, say she was shocked by her mother’s “sudden” decision to move and recounted memories of growing up on the road and swimming in George Michael’s pool.
Kate and George connected their two properties with a staircase over the shared wall in their back gardens.
After throwing one last wild party at The Grove for her 18th birthday, Lila lamented: “I remember playing hide and seek in this house when it was empty, like now.”
George was known for hosting late-night parties when he lived in his seven-bedroom home in The Grove, where guests included ex-Spice Girl Geri Horner and Spandau Ballet star Martin Kemp.
After George died (in another of his homes, in Oxfordshire), his house in The Grove, previously owned by Annie Lennox, was bought by Wham! fan Stephen Cameron for £19 million. Other notable Grove residents have included musician Sting and his wife, film producer Trudie Styler.