Report: Lady Gaga Buys Longtime Frank Zappa Family Home

In late August it was reported that the house and studio where legendary guitarist Frank Zappa raised his family and recorded dozens of albums was sold for $5.25 million. Pop star Lady Gaga was the buyer of the Hollywood Hills compound according to a report from Variety.

Variety notes “the buyer’s identity is shielded behind an inscrutable trust” but “word on the celebrity real estate street is that the beneficiary is none other than modern-day music industry iconoclast Lady Gaga.” Not only does the property include the Zappa family home, it also includes Frank’s famed “Utility Muffin Research Kitchen” studio and rehearsal space. Watch a tour of the space conducted by “vaultmeister” Joe Travers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYVXWnTkBQA

The house was offered up for purchase to fans as part of a Kickstarter campaign conducted in support of the forthcoming Alex Winter documentary on Frank. Apparently no one ponied up the $9 million, so the house was put up for sale. Here’s more on the property from Variety:

The property, on just over half an acre, includes a rambling, quasi-Tudor-style main house of more than 6,700 square feet with six bedrooms and seven bathrooms plus an attached staff apartment and two very contemporary detached guesthouses. The main house features what listing details describe as “many one-of-a-kind embellishments” such as an elaborate dragon mural in the dining room and “porthole windows and doors salvaged from vintage submarines.”

Frank & Gail Zappa bought the house in the late ’60s for $74,000 according to the L.A. Times. Gail lived at the compound through her death last year. The Zappa children are currently in a feud over Frank’s estate with Dweezil and Moon on one side and Ahmet and Diva on the other.