Inside Dave Grohl’s incredible property portfolio. Picture: Getty Images/Realtor.com
Foo Fighters rocker Dave Grohl sent shockwaves around the globe this week when he announced he had fathered a child “outside” of his 21-year marriage to wife Jordyn Blum.
In a stunning statement, the 55-year-old singer — who shares three daughters with Blum —
confessed that he “recently became the father of a new baby daughter,” adding that he is “doing everything to regain [the] trust and earn [the] forgiveness” of his family.
The scandal endangers the sizeable fortune amassed by Grohl throughout his career, including a hefty property portfolio, with his wife yet to publicly address her husband’s infidelity.
The rocker’s use of the word “we” in his statement seems to suggest he has hope that his second marriage will survive this scandal.
Even if the marriage does survive, Grohl’s estate now stands to be split among four children instead of three with multimillion dollar homes bought and sold across California, Washington and Virginia on the table.
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Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl stunned the world when he admitted to having an affair and fathering a child “outside” his marriage. Picture: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Foo Fighters
Sherman Oaks, California
According to Realtor, the musician snapped up the four-bedroom residence in 2001 for $US569,000.
Grohl let go of what was billed as an “incredible development opportunity in prime Sherman Oaks” for $US1.6 million ($A2.3 million) in June.
“We’re extremely excited to see this house get reimagined and back on the market in months,” the listing agent Tim Gavin posted on Instagram in announcing the deal.
Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl with Jordyn Blum, his wife of 21 years, and their three daughters. Picture: Amy Sussman/Getty Images
Encino, California
Grohl picked up another longtime piece of real estate in 2003, the same year he married Blum. He paid $US2.2 million for the abode, which is his primary residence.
Built in 1950, the 8,342-square-foot mansion offers five bedrooms. The one-story property sits on a 2-acre parcel, which includes a pool and a three-car garage.
According to Realtor, the property is estimated to be worth around $US6.8 million ($A10.1 million).
This Encino, California property is Grohl’s primary residence. Picture: Google Maps
Studio 606 in Northridge, California
Choosing to stay close to home, the Foo Fighters founder grabbed a bare-bones warehouse in Northridge, California, for $US1,165,000 in June 2004 and transformed it into a recording studio.
There’s a control room and guitar storage — and for Foo fans, it’s the studio where they recorded the albums “In Your Honor” and “Echoes Silence Patience and Grace.”
Other bands have also used the studio to record, from Motorhead to Alice In Chains, along with other superstars such as Alice Cooper.
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Grohl bought a warehouse and turned it into an incredible recording studio. Picture: Google Maps
Encino mansion
Grohl hasn’t used his own home as a recording space, but his band recorded its 10th album at a different mansion in Encino.
The 4,000-square-foot, five-bedroom, Spanish-style abode, which dates to 1936, was eventually sold, spirits and all, in 2021 for $US4.3 million.
The Foo Fighters recorded their 10th album at this Encino, California home. Picture: Realtor.com
Here’s a room set up as a recording studio. Picture: Realtor.com
Beach bliss
The singer and guitarist also owned a beach house in Oxnard, California, a coastal city west of L.A.
He appears to have purchased this getaway in 2006, as a brand-new build for $US3.7 million. It was sold at a loss for $US2.9 million in 2015.
Offering ocean and coastal views, the “casually elegant” four-bedroom pad sits right on Mandalay Beach. It features an open floor plan, a state-of-the-art kitchen, and high beamed ceilings.
The garage fits four cars, and the second floor features a primary suite complete with a fireplace and a balcony. Right off the dining room is an entertainment centre.
The Oxnard, California beach house that was sold in 2015. Picture: Realtor.com
Seattle, Washington
Prior to life in L.A., the Nirvana drummer lived in a ’90s-era home in Shoreline, Washington. He purchased the five-bedroom dwelling, set at the end of a cul-de-sac, for $US335,000 in 1993.
Spanning almost 4,000 square feet, the multi-level home built in 1991 includes a living room, family room, rec room, second kitchen, five decks, three fireplaces, and plentiful storage.
However, during the rocker’s ownership, he claimed the home had another feature: It was haunted.
“I moved into a house in Seattle in 1993,” he told NME. “It was a new house built at the edge of a forest, and little things started happening: noises, motion detectors going off. That soon ramped up into doors opening on their own, or I’d feel like someone was right behind me at all times.”
The odd activities were not enough to drive him out.
“It wasn’t so bad that I wanted to move though,” Grohl admitted. “I just sort of stayed there and felt creeped out for two and a half years.” In 1997, he sold the place for $US345,000.
When Nirvana made it big in the early 1990s, Grohl said he bought a beach house in North Carolina.
While there, he became a barbecue aficionado.
“When Nirvana became popular, the first thing I did is I bought a beach house in North Carolina and spent years up there, and I just ate pulled pork like f — ing crazy from the time I was 22 to about 25 years old,” Grohl told Variety.
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Grohl claims the Seattle home was haunted. Picture: Realtor.com
Rockin’ residence in Virginia
After the death of founder Kurt Cobain, Nirvana broke up and Grohl began to form the Foo Fighters. Tired of the L.A. scene, he briefly moved back to the area where he grew up, picking up a 1970s-era split-level home in Alexandria, Virginia.
Although he sold it long ago, and the four-bedroom, 4,500-square-foot residence has since been completely redone. But the residence remains a part of rock history, as the basement is where the Foo Fighters recorded their first Grammy-winning album, “Nothing Left to Lose.” The album cover was even shot on the front deck, according to Annapolis Magazine.
“When we won for best rock album, which we made in that basement, I was so proud — because we made it in my basement in a crappy makeshift studio that we put together ourselves,” Grohl told the magazine.
“I stood there looking out at everybody in tuxedos and diamonds and fur coats, and I thought we were probably the only band that won a Grammy for an album made for free in a basement that year,” he said.
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Grohl’s Alexandria, Virginia home, where the Foo Fighters recorded their Grammy-winning album “Nothing Left to Lose.” Picture: Google Maps
Childhood home in Springfield, Virginia
Grohl grew up in Springfield, Virginia, living with his mother in a single-story, three-bed, two-bath, 2,000-square-foot home.
The cosy abode was purchased in 1975 for $US49,000. Built in 1958, the brick house includes a fireplace and sits on a third of an acre.
When he was 7, his parents divorced, and he and his sister, Lisa, were largely raised by their mother, Virginia Grohl. At age 12, he picked up the guitar, later switching to drums.
Grohl attended multiple local high schools, eventually dropping out at the age of 17 to join the Washington, DC, punk-rock band Scream as drummer.
“Whenever I felt overwhelmed with the success of Nirvana,” Dave told the Washingtonian, “I would just go back to Virginia, to that house, to the bedroom where I grew up and the neighbourhood that I walked through to school every day and all of my friends were two or three blocks away, and it helped me keep my head level.”
Although he apparently considered buying a new house for his mum in the 1990s, the two decided against it, choosing to preserve the memories of his early love of music.
His mum split her time between his childhood home and L.A., before passing away in 2022.
Parts of this story first appeared in Realtor and were republished with permission.
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