Update (July 20, 2017): After lingering on the market for more than a year, the Southampton estate of tennis great John McEnroe and his wife, singer Patty Smyth, has finally sold. The final sale price is not known at this time, but it was originally listed for $14.5M last May and dropped to $12.5M along the way, which could’ve been the sweet spot to attract a buyer. (h/t Observer).
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Original (May 10, 2017): The rain finally stopped and the appropriately spring-like weather has given Manhattanites that annual yearning to look east for summertime playgrounds. Well, we’ve got one for you. It’s in Southampton and comes with a tennis court, which makes sense because it belongs to NYC’s favorite tennis tantrum-thrower, John McEnroe.
There’s a master suite with two bathrooms and a balcony, and 7 additional guest bedrooms and 7 bathrooms. That may sound like a lot of house, but McEnroe has 5 kids, two brothers and lots of friends from the tennis, art and broadcasting world. And, of course, in addition to a Gunite swimming pool, there’s a professional grade Har-Tru tennis court where Johnny Mac no doubt worked out some of that famous rage with a few friendly sets.
He and Smyth have also bought not one, but two houses in Malibu in recent years. They snagged a very cool mid-century ranch with wooden beams for $3.2 million and a 6,500-square-foot beachfront, four-story glass mansion for which they paid $21 million in September 2015.
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