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Richard Simmons’ Los Angeles home has sold for $3.8 million, ending a long chapter for the hilltop estate where the fitness icon lived for more than four decades. He died there in July 2024, and the house has since passed through a sales campaign, several price cuts and a change in marketing approach before finding its new owner. The house first reached the market at $6.99 million in June 2025, 11 months after Simmons died, according to Market Watch. Its price was cut several times, with the latest reduction in May leaving it at $5.8 million. The final price is roughly $3.2 million below where the listing began, and the sale completed more than two years after Simmons’ death. The current home occupies only a small portion of the 0.56-acre parcel, which rises in several usable tiers, with flat pads, terraced gardens and a dedicated pool level.
In April, the home made a return to the market with what listing agents Rachelle Rosten and Kelly deLaat of Douglas Elliman called a “highly strategic” sales approach, designed to maximise how buyers viewed its potential. Spanning nearly 5,000 square feet, with four and a half bathrooms, it reflects a man who built an empire encouraging millions to exercise through his hugely successful “Sweatin’ to the Oldies” workout videos. Set high above the Sunset Strip, the gated property offers panoramic city views, terraced gardens, an attic gym and a key-shaped pool. Simmons bought the four-bedroom residence in the 1980s and filled it with eccentric decoration that mirrored his vibrant public persona. The reasoning was practical. That left room for a much larger modern mansion, whether built out from the existing structure or from scratch. Many people close to Simmons described the home as a deeply personal sanctuary.
