{"id":118442,"date":"2024-09-18T12:01:11","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T12:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/09\/18\/after-the-longest-time-billy-joels-finally-poised-to-unload-his-50-million-florida-mansion\/"},"modified":"2024-09-18T12:01:11","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T12:01:11","slug":"after-the-longest-time-billy-joels-finally-poised-to-unload-his-50-million-florida-mansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/09\/18\/after-the-longest-time-billy-joels-finally-poised-to-unload-his-50-million-florida-mansion\/","title":{"rendered":"After &#8220;The Longest Time,&#8221; Billy Joel&#8217;s finally poised to unload his $50 million Florida mansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-09-17\/Getty_BillyJoelsmiling_091724.jpg\" alt><figcaption> Myrna M. Suarez\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For &#8220;The Longest Time&#8221;\u00a0<strong>Billy Joel<\/strong> has been trying to sell one of his properties in Florida. But it looks like he&#8217;s finally going to be &#8220;Movin&#8217; Out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandoweekly.com\/orlando\/billy-joel-finds-a-buyer-for-his-massive-florida-estate-after-slashing-15-million-from-the-asking-price\/Slideshow\/37804968\/37805620\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Orlando Weekly<\/a> reports that Billy first put the Palm Beach County mansion, which he bought in 2015 for more than $22 million, on the market in 2018 for just under $32 million. After not getting any interest, he took it off the market, then\u00a0re-listed it in 2022 for a whopping $65 million. Then he dropped the price by $15 million; its most recent price came in at just under $50 million.<\/p>\n<p>The publication reports\u00a0the house now has a &#8220;pending offer,&#8221; but there&#8217;s no word on the final purchase price. As for what the buyer will get, there are 13,000 feet of living space, nine bedrooms, 11 bathrooms, an air-conditioned 12-car garage, a home theater, a wine cellar, a guest house and more.<\/p>\n<p>Billy actually hasn&#8217;t lived in the mansion for a while. He bought a new place in Boca Raton in 2024 for a reported $29 million and has told fans he plans to spend more time in Florida &#8220;like old Jewish guys from Long Island do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And speaking of Long Island, the Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame has extended its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limusichalloffame.org\/billy-joel-exhibit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Billy Joel\u00a0\u2014 My Life, A Piano Man&#8217;s Journey<\/a>\u00a0exhibit through the spring of 2025. It features\u00a0rare memorabilia, behind-the-scenes video, awards, rare audio and video recordings, instruments and historic photos, many donated by Billy himself.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myrna M. Suarez\/Getty Images For &#8220;The Longest Time&#8221;\u00a0Billy Joel has been trying to sell one of his properties in Florida. But it looks like he&#8217;s finally going to be &#8220;Movin&#8217; Out.&#8221; Orlando Weekly reports that Billy first put the Palm Beach County mansion, which he bought in 2015 for more<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/09\/18\/after-the-longest-time-billy-joels-finally-poised-to-unload-his-50-million-florida-mansion\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}