Demi Moore’s real estate portfolio, a look inside the Oscar-Nominee’s properties
The “Substance” star has owned properties in New York, Idaho, and California
She’s having a career renaissance, but when it comes to real estate, Demi Moore’s houses haven’t budged for over two decades. The actor, who recently received her first Golden Globe for her starring role in The Substance—which also garnered her a nomination for best actress at the upcoming Oscars—has maintained ownership of her homes in Beverly Hills and Idaho since around the turn of the millennium.
Both dwellings emphasize their surrounding natural environments, which is clearly a trait that Moore values in a home. “You feel the outside when you're inside. The house is part of nature, and nature rarely does it wrong,” she said in a 2007 AD tour of her Beverly Hills home. “If we stick closely to it, we’ll always be on the right track.” In her California abode, that philosophy involved floor-to-ceiling glass, a sun-filled atrium, and a natural color palette; in Idaho, the actor opted for an idyllic sprawl fit for a nature preserve. Below, we explore both of Moore’s peaceful pads and the other places she’s called home over the years.
Malibu beach house
Though Moore technically didn’t own this Malibu property, she did live in it for a decade. Actor Bruce Willis plunked down $2.15 million on a five-bedroom home on the Pacific Coast Highway in June 1987. One month later, he met Moore. Before the year was out, the two were married, and the Feud actor moved into Willis’s 4,850-square-foot beachfront pad. During their tenancy, the duo thoroughly renovated the 1948-built structure. It featured a double-height living room, a projection room, two offices, a pool overlooking the ocean, and 70 feet of beach frontage.
The modern-style dwelling was the couple’s home base during the years they starred in some of their most iconic projects, like Ghost and Die Hard. While discussing The Substance’s themes of body image and societal pressure during an interview on CBS last year, Moore revealed that she biked the 30 miles each way from the Malibu home to Paramount Studios in Hollywood while filming Indecent Proposal in 1993.
In 1997, Moore and Willis offered up the house for rent at $50,000 a month. Late television legend Norman Lear was reportedly one short-term tenant. Around the same time, the couple returned it to the market, asking $8 million. The Mortal Thoughts costars announced their separation in 1998, and Willis offloaded the dwelling the following year for about $6.7 million.
New York City penthouse
The San Remo building as seen from Central Park.
When Moore and Willis finalized their divorce in 2000, Moore retained ownership of the luxe NYC penthouse that they had bought in 1990 for a reported $8 million. Located in the south tower of the Emery Roth–designed San Remo building that graces Central Park West, the unit spanned three floors, with six bedrooms and five and a half baths.
Perched on the prewar structure’s 26th floor, the apartment’s lowest level—accessed via a private elevator—hosted a double-height foyer, a living room, a dining room, a breakfast room, a kitchen, and a library, which was complete with original rosette molding and bas-reliefs. The bedrooms were on the second level, while the top floor had an entertainment room, a guest loft, a study, a second kitchen, and access to terraces that nearly encircled the exterior. Throughout, the abode boasted sprawling views of Central Park, the surrounding city skyline, and the Hudson River.
In 2015, Moore found herself spending less time in New York and listed the triplex for $75 million, telling The New York Times that the Upper West Side home was “too magnificent not to be lived in full-time.” The Ghost star was forced to drop the price all the way down to $45 million to finally close the deal in 2017.
Idaho oasis
When she and Willis divorced, Moore also acquired a 10.5-acre plot in Hailey, Idaho. The estate hosts six bedrooms and eight bathrooms, backdropped by a bucolic sprawl dotted with trees, gardens, and a river crossed by a concrete bridge. “Sometimes, when we’re brave enough, [the river is] a great swimming hole: We call it the Redneck Riviera,” Moore told Financial Times in 2023. “You can also kayak, river‑raft, fly-fish…. Nature is everywhere. I might see a herd of elk in my backyard.” Inside, the home features undeniably charming details, including a huge stone-faced fireplace and a dining nook outfitted with a floral-patterned banquette and a gallery of miniature chairs hanging on the wall above.
Moore already had deep roots in the small town—she and Willis first moved to Hailey in 1988 with plans to raise their three daughters, Rumer, Scout, and Tallulah, outside of the limelight. The former couple have stayed close, and even quarantined together as a blended family during the pandemic. “He and his wife, Emma, now have a house maybe a mile away,” Moore explained to the Financial Times. “These days I split my time between LA and Idaho, but Sun Valley remains the same for me,” she said. “You arrive, and you have more room to breathe, literally and figuratively [...] I grew up in a small town, so there was something cozy and familiar about it when I first saw it: the little main streets, the beautiful mountains, and the clean air.”
Beverly Hills home
In 2003, the G.I. Jane star paid a reported $3.4 million for a secluded Beverly Hills house that dates to 1952. Moore told AD in 2007 that the dwelling was the first one that she had toured after deciding to buy in the area. After a full day of house tours, the actor asked her realtor to take her back. “When we walked in, my kids whispered, ‘This is the one,’” she reflected. “It was ideal. It was right in the center of things, but it had such a serene quality. It was like being in a tree house.”
Moore’s home was renovated with help from Marmol Radziner and Associates, and the rear garden landscaping was done by Pamela Burton.
Although she loved the property and its placement, it was too small for Moore, her three daughters, and her partner at the time, Ashton Kutcher. The couple, who began their relationship in 2003 and were married in 2005, enlisted designer Brad Dunning to expand the house by building a cantilevered addition that added much-needed square footage without blocking the canyon views. “[Moore and Kutcher] collaborated on it,” Dunning told AD. “They counterbalance each other very nicely. Both have tons of style, and both wanted a stylish house. His strong input was functionality and comfort. Hers was style and design.”
Moore still maintains the modern pad as her West Coast home base. “It's had some interesting incarnations," she said on CBS last year. “It was a house with three kids, and now it’s just me and my silly pack of dogs.”
Original article appeared on Architectural Digest US