Beyoncé and Jay-Z are used to breaking records in the music industry, but they recently branched out and broke records in a different field.

Although the sale of luxury homes across the country was down in 2023, the musical couple set the all-time purchase sales record in California, when they bought a $190 million mansion in Malibu. 

The purchase surpassed the $177 million sale of the house next door in 2021, bought by investor Marc Andreessen and his wife, Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen.

The mansion was designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando, who has designed less than 20 homes in the U.S., making him a highly sought after designer in the celebrity world.

The pair purchased the 42,000 square foot mansion from art collectors Maria and Bill Bell, who purchased the 8 acres of land the home sits on for $14.5 million in 2003.  

The Bells hired Ando to design their house, who worked on it for close to 15 years. When referring to the home, Maria once said it is a “sculpture as much as it is a building.”

Neither Beyoncé and Jay-Z, nor the Bells, have spoken out about the sale.

In October, the “Break My Soul” singer broke a different record, this time for the highest-grossing tour by a female artist in history, earning $579 million for her Renaissance World Tour.

She took over the No. 1 spot from Madonna, who was on top for her Sticky & Sweet tour in 2008 and 2009, which grossed $408 million. But Beyoncé was then quickly overthrown by Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, which grossed $1.04 billion in 2023.

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