GAZELLE MAGAZINE October Health Issue. | Page 42

FAMILY & HOME Celebrity Homes KID ROCK T 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 40 GAZELLE STL 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.