KISS bassist / vocalist Gene Simmons spoke to the Wall Street Journal about his decision to sell his southern Nevada property just five months after buying it.
Simmons paid a combined $ 10.8 million for the home and many adjacent lots in May and is now asking for $ 14.95 million for it. Some of the improvements Simmons made to the Vegas house include installing all of the new floors and tearing up wall-to-wall carpets in some rooms.
According to Gene, his wife and their two adult children never wanted to spend time in Las Vegas and preferred to stay in the family’s other homes, an extensive portfolio that included a modern lakefront home in Whistler, British Columbia, a home in Malibu and two includes LA homes that Gene bought for Simmons children Nick and Sophie.
“They’re not fans of 115-degree weather,” Simmons told the Wall Street Journal.
Due to KISS’s tour schedule and business trips, Gene said he never spent more than a few weeks in total in Las Vegas. He doesn’t regret selling the property so soon after buying it, adding, “How many homes do you need anyway?”
Last month, Simmons sold his Los Angeles mansion for $ 16 million, almost a year after he first launched it for $ 22 million. He later put it back up for $ 25 million after it was never sold, and he has reportedly invested large amounts of money in improvements.
Gene bought the Los Angeles property in October 1986 for $ 1,337,500.
Simmons has been vocal about his desire to leave California for some time because he wanted a quieter lifestyle and not featured on celebrity maps or grappling with Beverly Hills tour buses. He also said that part of the reason he and his wife listed the two acre property in Benedict Canyon is because the house had gotten too big for them both since their children grew up.
“It’s a big lot and the kids literally grew up here,” he said of the Beverly Hills home. “Now they have moved on and both have their own houses next to each other in the Hollywood Hills. They borrow a cup of sugar and so on. They love and support each other like the best children you can imagine. “
“They have their own lives and now we have this big house [my wife] Shannon, I have to put on an intercom because it’s on the other end of the house, ”he continued. “It’s happy and it’s sad too. When you are a kid and live at home, you love your mom and dad, but at some point you have to move out. It is sad that you are moving away from home, but you are also looking forward to the future and we very much hope that the next family who live here will enjoy this place as much as we do. “
Gene and Shannon were married in 2011 after dating since 1975.
Gene, Shannon and their children were all featured on the reality television series “Gene Simmons Family Jewels” from 2006 to 2012.
Photo credit: courtesy of Stetson Ybarra Photography
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