The suburban Atlanta home that Grammy-award winning singer and songwriter Kenny Rogers bought toward the end of his life has sold for $2.475 million.
Rogers, who died in 2020 at the age of 81, bought the six-bedroom home for $1.705 million in 2019, to be closer to his medical team, according to The Wall Street Journal, which first reported that the house hit the market last month.
The stately, almost 6,000-square-foot residence is in Sandy Springs, some 18 miles north of downtown Atlanta, and was sold earlier this week by his estate.
Thom McCorkle of Ansley Real Estate—Christie’s International/Luxury Portfolio handled the listing
A record of the transaction has yet to be made public, and as such, Mansion Global couldn’t identify the buyer.
“His greatest passion other than music and family and friends might have been interior and landscape design,” his widow, Wanda Rogers-Webb, told the Journal. “Kenny loved taking a piece of land or a beautiful home and putting his own fingerprints on it everywhere.”
For this property, the couple installed an elevator, added a fountain surrounded by boxwood hedges and commissioned mosaics in the kitchen.
The home, built in 2003, also has a two-story foyer with a marble floor and a dramatic staircase, a formal dining room, a formal living room with an ornate fireplace, a family room, a deck, and six bedrooms including the primary suite with marble floors and a granite fireplace.
There’s also an entertaining area with space for poker and game tables, as well as kitchen and bar area, a media room, a wine cellar, and a backyard with a pool and a hot tub, according to the listing.
Known for songs like “The Gambler,” “Islands in the Stream” and “Coward of the County,” Rogers was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2013.