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What if Lady Gaga Bought the Robin Williams Estate?
It makes sense: Lady Gaga was here in February, rumored to be shopping for a vineyard estate in either Napa and Sonoma. If she buys Robin Williams's Villa Sorriso, she won't have to choose between the two: Its 653 acres straddle the county line.
Oh, how we love our celebrities. News that has drawn literally thousands of readers to Napa Patch, where we linked to the Sotheby's International real estate listing Wednesday.
Listed at $35 million, the 653-acre estate dubbed Villa Sorriso has almost 20,000 square feet of living space including five suites. Its grounds include pools, sculpture gardens and acres of cabernet sauvignon vineyards.
It's perfect for , who took a two-day tour through wine country, with stops in Sonoma, Napa and Geyserville, last February.
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The Sun, a UK-based gossip rag, reported that the singer was looking at vineyards in our area with an eye to possibly purchasing one as an investment.
According to the Sun, Lady Gaga (born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta) is "a foodie," who after several European tours had become increasingly interested in the production (and consumption) of red wine.
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Now she has the chance to make Napa cabernet from the Villa Sorriso vines, which share terroir with some of the most highy-prized grapes in the region.
In fact, since Williams's estate sprawls across the Mayacamas into Sonoma County, she could claim dual county identity if she wanted—except for one thing: The ZIP code is 94558, just the same as in most of the city of Napa.
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Alexis Fitts in Sonoma contributed to this report.
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