George Clooney does not just buy houses. He collects distinctive, slightly outrageous properties the way most of us collect streaming services. The tally right now: about $50 million worth of real estate spread across Italy, England, France, and the U.S. The crown jewel is on Lake Como, obviously, but the rest of the map is just as interesting.
Lake Como: Clooney HQ
Back in 2002, Clooney picked up Villa Oleandra, an 18th-century estate in Laglio on Lake Como, for somewhere between $7 and $10 million. It is a 25-room escape that has quietly turned into a revolving door for A-listers over the last two decades: Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, Matt Damon, Jennifer Aniston, Barack Obama, and more have all stopped by. Emily Blunt and John Krasinski even got married there in 2010. Casual.
The place comes stacked with a private pool, tennis court, a home theater, and, my favorite oddly specific feature, a dedicated pizza room engineered to keep lake water from creeping in. Because if you are going to build a pizza room on the shoreline, you plan ahead.
Clooney also bought the neighboring Villa Margherita around the same time for roughly $8 million, which effectively turned the two side-by-side compounds into one of the largest private residences on the lake.
His presence has not exactly gone unnoticed. Locals talk about a 'Clooney Effect' that has pushed Lake Como property values up about 400% since 2002. The mayor of Laglio even put a $500 fine in place for anyone who gets within 100 meters of Clooney's villas, just to keep the gawkers at bay. The area went from scenic to celebrity magnet, fast.
Everywhere Else: The Portfolio at a Glance
- Provence, France (2021): George and Amal bought Domaine du Canadel for $8.3 million. It is a 425-acre wine estate that doubles as their main home. Think a 10,000-square-foot primary house, a 25-acre vineyard, a 72-foot pool, and tennis courts. Clooney apparently drives a tractor there, which feels on-brand in a delightfully unexpected way.
- Sonning, England (2014): A Georgian mansion dating back to the 1600s on an island in the River Thames, purchased for $13 million. It is 8,948 square feet with 10 bedrooms, a pool house Amal uses as her legal office, a 16-seat screening room, and a glass-covered garden room. They famously spent their honeymoon camping in its unfurnished rooms. Romantic, but also: practical.
- New York City (2016): A high-floor condo at 100 East 53rd Street for $14.75 million. The apartment is 3,385 square feet with three bedrooms, conveniently near the United Nations where Amal works. The building has a restaurant by Michelin-starred chef Joel Robuchon and a 60-foot pool, because of course it does.
- Studio City, California (sold 2024): In September 2024, the Clooneys sold their Studio City home to Olivia Culpo and Christian McCaffrey for $14.5 million. Clooney originally bought it from Stevie Nicks in 1995 for $2.2 million, netting about a $12.3 million profit. Not a bad long hold.
Marriage update you might raise an eyebrow at
In November 2025, Clooney said he and Amal have never had an argument in 11 years of marriage. Yes, never. He married Amal in 2014 at age 53, and told CBS News that the lack of drama comes down to maturity, perspective, and choosing the right person.
'We have never had a fight, we have never had an argument. You get to a point in life where you just go, "Well, why would that be a discussion or an argument?" We have a really amazing relationship because we are also so supportive of each other.'
'And some of it is because I am at this point in life where if she wants to paint the wall red, I do not care. You get to a point in life where you just go, "Why would that be a discussion or an argument?"'
They met at a dinner party at Villa Oleandra in 2013 and got married in Venice the next year. These days they split time among their homes, with the Provence estate as home base, and raise their eight-year-old twins, who speak English, French, and Italian. The multilingual twins fit the itinerary.
The bottom line
Clooney has curated a very specific global setup: a splashy Italian base that reshaped a neighborhood, a working wine estate in France as the day-to-day home, an island mansion in England for prestige and privacy, a Manhattan perch for convenience, and a Hollywood hold he unloaded at the perfect time. It is part lifestyle flex, part savvy real estate strategy. If you are going to be everywhere, you might as well make each 'everywhere' count.