Johnny and Laeticia Hallyday: what their sublime villa in Pacific Palisades looked like ?

In 2010, Johnny and Laeticia Hallyday built a luxurious villa in Los Angeles. In the Pacific Palisades neighborhood, they lived years of happiness before the owner's widow had to part with them.

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IN BRIEF

• Johnny Hallyday moved to Pacific Palisades in the 2000s with his family to be close to his daughters' school.
• He invested millions in renovating a luxurious villa with a swimming pool and a cinema room, which he sold after his death.
• Laeticia Hallyday sold the house for $14 million, but remains at Los Angeles for the education of his daughters.

This is where Johnny Hallyday's American dream took root. Passionate about the USA, the Taulier left France in the 2000s. After living in Beverly Hills, he settled in Pacific Palisades with Laeticia and their daughters. It was for Jade and Joy that he chose this neighborhood popular with stars in Los Angeles. “I went to Pacific Palisades because of my daughters' school, who go to the French high school. Before, the journey from home to school was endless and we had to get up at 6:30 in the morning. Now, we're five minutes away”, he told AFP.

For his cozy nest, Johnny Hallyday spent without counting. In total, the renovation of this 1,000 m2 villa cost him several million euros. For this sum, the singer built a luxurious house with seven bedrooms and eight bathrooms. But above all, he decorated several lounges, a bar, a library and even a cinema room for family evenings. Outside, Johnny Hallyday bet on an infinity pool in which he often splashed around with his wife and their daughters.

How much did the Hallyday house sell for in Pacific Palisades ?

With its panoramic view, this house in Pacific Palisades could also accommodate the motor racing cars that Johnny Hallyday loved so much. The family lived there for several years of happiness before the disease took the star from us. After the rocker's death in December 2017, Laeticia Hallyday stayed there for several months. Before reluctantly selling it. A necessity for Johnny's widow, who thus parted with a real financial windfall. Because this villa cost her every month 17,000 euros in insurance and property taxes, to which were added maintenance costs.

A few years ago, Laeticia Hallyday managed to sell it for 14 million dollars, or a little over 11.5 million euros. Devastated to say goodbye to this house where she had lived such beautiful moments, she did not leave the USA. “I'm staying in Los Angeles for now, because it's a promise I made to Johnny. He wanted his daughters to be educated in the United States. Jade has three years of study left and Joy has five left”, she confided in the columns of Paris Match.

Laeticia Hallyday has lost “a part of [her] soul”

With her daughters, she has therefore found a new house not far from there. “Moving has been painful but essential in our mourning and reconstruction. We stayed in this neighborhood where we have our habits and our friends. It's our refuge. We discovered it, because Jade went to French school there. And we loved it for its village atmosphere in the south of France and its proximity with the ocean,” she assured Le Parisien.

Unfortunately, this cozy little nest was ravaged by the flames of the terrible fires that are raging through Los Angeles. “There is nothing left… only ashes where our laughter, our memories, our history lived. I feel like I've lost a part of my soul, as if a part of me had flown away with the flames, she wrote in the caption of a heartbreaking video. There is one thing left that nothing can ever burn, the immense love that I receive every day. Your messages, your prayers, your gestures touch me deeply. You are my strength, my hope, my reason to believe in tomorrow. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.”