Dirt Singer Shakira puts her Miami Beach mansion on the market
Mononymic cross-cultural music industry phenom Shakira has her newly refreshed, contemporary mansion on Miami Beach’s prestigious North Bay Road up for grabs at a bit more than $11.6 million. It’s not the first time at the real estate rodeo with this particular property for the Colombian-lebanese singer-songwriter and former coach on “The Voice,” who has owned the waterfront home since 2001, when she snapped it up for $3.38 million. In 2013, the 8,708-square-foot manse briefly popped up as a luxury lease at $45,000 per month, and for the latter half of 2015 and into the first weeks of 2016, the six-bedroom and 7.5-bathroom residence was available for purchase at $13.9 million.
According to listing agents Antonio Mebarak and Ana Lourdes Martinez, both with Douglas Elliman Real Estate (Mebarak is Shakira’s brother), there have been a number of decorative improvements since the property was last for sale. To wit: new hardwood floors imported from Spain, a new front door from an
unspecified European location, the addition of custom- designed furniture, updated landscaping and all-new lighting systems both inside and outside.
An imposing stainless steel gate opens to a wide, hedge-lined driveway and twocar garage trimmed in bougainvillea. The window-lined and light-filled combination living and dining room features a lowered ceiling in the dining area that imbues a sense of intimacy in the grandly proportioned room.
A spacious entertainment wing extends off the rear of the house and alongside the swimming pool, and contains an area decked out with state- of-the-art media and sound equipment, a billiards section with an all-white pool table and a sofa-lined hookah lounge set into a windowed bay.
At least two of the six bedrooms can serve as the master suite: One of them, atop the entertainment wing with an adjacent en suite nursery or dressing room, features a zigzagging private terrace under a cantilevered roof. The back of the house includes a swimming pool and a poolside dining cabana with wet bar.