At the start of the 1990s, the Mission Impossible actor began to make plans for a compound on a 320-acre plot of land in Telluride, Colorado. (Celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey, Ralph Lauren, and Kelly Ripa currently call the mountain town home.) He completed construction of the main house, a 10,000-square-foot behemoth, in 1994. In a 2006 interview with Cruise and his then wife Katie Holmes at the Telluride abode, Vanity Fair described the mansion as having the feeling “of a sprawling lodge or chalet, with rustic, log-cabin touches—informal, airy, built with honey-colored deadwood from Oregon.” The custom-built main house featured four bedrooms, with high-beamed ceilings, cedar-paneled walls, and stone fireplaces throughout. A separate guest house boasted three additional bedrooms. The grounds also included a golf course, a motocross track, an outdoor firepit, and an in-ground trampoline. Cruise first listed the property for $59 million in 2014, but quietly took it off the market. He relisted it seven years later, in 2021, for $39.4 million, and sold it for the asking price.
Beverly Hills rental
It was only a matter of time before Cruise made his way to the West Coast. The native New Yorker reportedly leased a mansion in Beverly Hills for $55,000 a month starting in 2001. The three-acre estate would go on to be leased by Russell Crowe during the filming of 2009’s State of Play, and it was previously a filming location for several scenes in the movie Blow starring Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz. When Cruise and Holmes got together in 2005, they held onto the 6,685-square-foot, nine-bedroom estate, leasing it through 2008. Amenities on-site included a detached guesthouse, a pool with a spa, and a tennis court.
Hollywood Hills compound
In 2005, Cruise paid $11.7 million for a brand new Tuscan-style residence in the Hollywood Hills. Built in 2004, the two-story, European-style estate sat on more than 2.5 acres of land, with a main house featuring walls of glass for city views and an Italian farmhouse-inspired kitchen with plenty of old-world charm. The home contained a total of seven bedrooms and nine bathrooms, plus a vaulted-ceiling living room with a fireplace. A separate guesthouse on the property boasted its own kitchen and four bedrooms, while a standalone stone-clad building nearby housed a wine cellar and tasting room. The entire estate was remodeled in 2006. When Cruise sold it to Eva Longoria for a slight loss at $11.4 million a decade later, she also opted to give the property a bit of a redesign.
West Sussex estate
One year after the Hollywood Hills purchase, in 2006, Cruise cast his gaze across the pond, picking up a $4.2 million English estate in the West Sussex town of East Grinstead, just down the road from the British headquarters for the Church of Scientology (Cruise has been a practicing member since the 1980s). The actor’s property included an 11,331-square-foot main house set on over 14 acres. Though the eight-bedroom, five-bathroom home looked rather traditional from the outside with a brick exterior, inside the mansion was a blend of historic and modern aesthetics, with coffered ceilings and timber accents, as well as integrated sound systems and zoned lighting. Entertaining spaces included a movie theater, a dance studio, and a game room. Cruise maintained the residence for nearly a decade before listing it in October 2015. He sold it to singer Peter Andre for just under $6 million the following year.
Beverly Hills mansion
In 2007, Cruise and Holmes put down $30.5 million for a seven-bedroom, nine-bathroom estate in Beverly Hills. The home, which was originally built in 1937, was situated on 1.21 acres, and the property included a handful of guesthouses, a swimming pool, a playground, and a tennis court. The unique 10,000-square-foot structure included multiple different wings and had a gray stone exterior. The couple split in 2012 after six years of marriage, and Cruise held onto the property for a few more years after that before selling it for $40 million in 2016. At the time, it was unclear what Cruise’s original asking price had been, though it was reportedly between $40 and $50 million.
