Alex Cooper’s family home has been sold for $US780,000 ($A1.1 million) just five months after the podcaster surprised her parents with a new house in Los Angeles.
During her show, the “Call Her Daddy” host revealed that she had purchased an L.A. residence for her mum, Laurie, and her dad, Bryan.
She insisted to her listeners that she and her husband, producer Matt Kaplan, wanted “nothing in return” for the gesture, Realtor reports.
The media personality did admit that having her parents live so close to her own $US10.7 million ($A16.4 million) Studio City pad would make it easier for her to enlist their babysitting services in the future
“My parents are officially moving to Los Angeles, California, and I bought them a house,” the former Barstool Sports star announced in the episode.
“It makes me emotional thinking about it because when I started ‘Call Her Daddy,’ I had somewhat of a vision of what I hoped this would turn into.”
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Alex Cooper’s childhood home has been sold. Picture: XNY/Star Max/GC Images
Bryan and Laurie Cooper purchased the property in 1993 for just $US211,250 — and sold it on May 6 for $US780,000. Picture: Google Maps
Now, it seems Bryan and Laurie’s cross-country move is officially complete.
Property records indicate that their longtime Newtown, Pennsylvania, property was sold on May 6 — 32 years after they purchased it for just $US211,250.
The property, which boasts four bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms, is where Cooper spent much of her childhood alongside her brother, Grant, and her sister, Kathryn, before she relocated to Boston in order to attend Boston University on a full-ride soccer scholarship.
Cooper and her husband, Matt Kaplan purchased a new home for her parents in Los Angeles. Picture: Instagram/Alex Cooper
The property is located just 10 minutes from Cooper and Kaplan’s Studio City, California, home, which they bought for $US10.7 million in 2022. Picture: Google Maps
That decision plays a major role in her new documentary “Call Her Alex,” in which she accuses her former coach, Nancy Feldman, of sexually harassing her while she was on the college team.
She alleged that Ms Feldman, who has yet to publicly respond to Cooper’s claims, began to “fixate” on her, noting that she found her coach’s behaviour “confusing” at the time.
“[It] was all based in her wanting to know who I was dating, her making comments about my body and her always wanting to be alone with me,” Cooper says in the documentary, according to People.
“It was this psychotic game of, ‘You want to play? Tell me about your sex life.’ I felt so deeply uncomfortable.”
The couple both appear in their daughter’s new Hulu documentary, “Call Her Alex.” Picture: Hulu
Cooper further claimed that she felt unable to speak up about the alleged harassment because she was attending BU on a “full-tuition scholarship” and believed she would have been “gone” if she didn’t “follow [Feldman’s] rules”.
The podcast host said she did tell her parents about Ms Feldman’s behaviour, revealing that the family hired a lawyer, who warned them that a potential case could be dragged out for years.
Addressing the allegations during a Q&A at the New York City premiere of her documentary, Cooper admitted that she had initially been unsure whether she wanted to open up about that time in her life.
Cooper revealed that she had surprised her mum (pictured) and dad with a new dwelling. Picture: Instagram/Alex Cooper
The Podcaster recalled the difficult moment when “Call Her Alex” director, Ry Russo-Young, asked her to return to the soccer field that she trained and played on during college.
“The minute I stepped back on that field, I felt so small,” she shared.
“I just felt like I was 18 years old again, and I was in a situation with someone in a position of power who abused their power, and I felt like I wasn’t the ‘Call Her Daddy’ girl.
“I wasn’t someone who had money and influence or whatever.
“I was just another woman who experienced harassment on a level that changed my life forever and took away the thing I loved the most.”
After graduating from BU in 2017, Cooper went on to launch “Call Her Daddy” alongside her then-roommate Sofia Franklyn, before going on to ink a solo deal as the host of the podcast in 2020.
In the years since, Cooper has signed two multimillion-dollar deals with different audio streaming services, the first of which came in 2021 — when she inked a three-year contract with Spotify, which was reportedly worth $US60 million ($A92 million).
Cooper’s documentary was released on June 10 and charts her rise to fame. Picture: Instagram/Alex Cooper
After that contract came to an end in 2024, Cooper moved on to SiriusXM, which reportedly offered her a multi-year deal worth a staggering $US125 million ($A191 million).
Having founded her podcast in New York, Cooper relocated to Los Angeles at the start of 2021, and in 2022, she purchased a Studio City abode with her then-boyfriend Kaplan, with whom she tied the knot in April 2024.
The couple carried out an extensive renovation on the home after purchasing it, revealing to Architectural Digest in 2023 that the process took just over a year to complete.
“I was a little overwhelmed by how much of an undertaking it would be, because [the home] was not our style whatsoever,” she told the publication.
“It was so far from our taste that it allowed us to tailor every single room to our liking.”
Parts of this story first appeared in Realtor and was republished with permission.
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