Inside Kanye West’s bid to buy $420m mansion

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West… His bizarre behaviour is detailed in Kardashian’s new biography. Picture: Allen Berezovsky/Getty Images Imagine a concrete compound sitting high on a grassy bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Malibu’s prized Paradise Cove — one designed by a Pritzker Prize-winning architect. In reality, it exists — and was quietly on the market as a whisper listing for a colossal $295 million (AUD $420 million) when Kanye West drove up to the estate, unannounced, one day. It had taken 15 years for art collectors Maria and Bill Bell — a soap opera heir whose parents, William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell, created “The Young and the Restless” and “The Bold and the Beautiful” — to build the estate. They had commissioned the Japanese starchitect Tadao Ando for its design, and it was one of only a handful of the now 85-year-old’s residential homes in the US. And, apparently, West wanted to give it a whirl. The home was on the market when Kanye simply showed up at the front gate. Picture: Google Maps Celebrity broker Kurt Rappaport was representing the Bells. But instead of calling Rappaport, West simply drove to the estate to see it for himself. According to Jonathan Va...