FAMILY & HOME
Celebrity Homes
KID ROCK
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hough he lives most of the time in his camouflage-
painted, double-wide mobile home with “a million
dollar deck” overlooking Nashville on 68 acres of
mountainside, Kid Rock has invested in real estate
around Detroit, Nashville and Jupiter Beach, Florida.
Robert James Ritchie, better known as Kid Rock, recently sold his
stunning Balinese-style home in Point Dume, Malibu - where he and
next-door neighbor Sean Penn became friends - for $9.5 million. The
original 2013 asking price was $13.45 million.
Kid is a man of many talents, tastes and interests. Having grown up
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on a beautiful equestrian estate in Romeo, Michigan, a rural community
on the outer edge of Detroit, he was exposed from birth to the finer
things in life, and developed an appreciation of the outdoors while
picking apples in the family orchard and taking care of the horses.
At age 11, he tried and excelled at break-dancing, and progressed to
self-taught DJ to hip hop and rap performer to country music singer,
and all combinations in-between. When asked about the high points
on his way to overwhelming musical success, he said at the time it
was happening, every small step forward seemed like it was the most
important one.