Bono Revealed as Investor in Massive House in the Hollywood Hills
As Bono plays the Sphere with U2 in Las Vegas this fall, the Irish rock star also has been revealed to be involved with another prominent piece of architecture, this one in L.A.
For months, a huge house — with an even more enormous foundation and elevated driveway — has been rising in the Hollywood Hills, inescapably visible to commuters heading north on Fairfax Avenue.
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According to a source, Bono is an investor in the project. Designed by architect Noah Walker and developed by Plus Development Group, the home appears to include a triangular-shaped main house, a guest house and a pool.
A rep for Bono was not reachable for comment; Plus Development Group had no comment and Walker’s office did not respond to an interview request. Back in 2021, music executive Scooter Braun paid $65 million for a 19,000-square-foot modern mansion designed by Walker, located in Brentwood.
According to a neighbor, however, the music star — who will be playing 19 more concert dates at Sphere, December 2023 through February 2024 — has been spotted on the street checking out the house’s progress.
The residence is one of several ambitious spec houses that have gone up in the locale in the past few years, including the Stanley House, which sold for $33 million in 2018 and featured interiors by Lenny Kravitz, and the Thunderball-inspired Californication House, a new build contemporary mansion, developed by celebrity real estate agents Rayni and Branden Williams and Crest Real Estate founder Jason Somers.
The Plus Development Group project is also just down the hill from another massive spec home project, a redevelopment of the former residence of Megan Ellison in Mount Olympus.
A version of this story first appeared in the Nov. 16 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Click here to subscribe.
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