Posted on 06/22/2006 9:44:46 AM PDT by ElkGroveDan
BELLEAIR, Fla. - Hulk Hogan has moved his family to Miami Beach and put his mansion near Tampa on the market for a whopping $25 million.
The pro wrestler-actor, aka Terry Bollea, and his wife, Linda, moved last month to a new $12 million bayfront estate on Miami Beach so their children, Brooke, 18, and Nick, 15, could pursue singing and acting careers.
Now the 17,000-square-foot French-style Belleair mansion, familiar to fans of the family's VH1 reality TV series, "Hogan Knows Best," is on the market.
The home has seven fireplaces, 2.3-acre grounds overlooking the Intercoastal Waterway and Gulf of Mexico, a guesthouse, swimming pool, waterfall and four-car garage.
"You can get lost in it," said Marcia Ellis of Coldwell Banker, who sold the Belleair property to the family 14 years ago and has listed it again.
Hogan still owns a more modest place on Clearwater Beach and a home in Los Angeles that is on the market for $5.9 million.
"I've got to downscale," he told The Miami Herald recently. "We'll head toward Miami like the Beverly Hillbillies."
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It's a beautiful house. Rumor has it Hulk is miserable in Miami and wants out.
(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")
"What cha gonna do when the house doesn't sell for you!"
17,ooo square feet.. Damn!
and 7 fireplaces in a Tampa home, got to be ornamental or gas. Imagine trying to feed 'em in winter, that's a lot of wood splitting and lugging.
I did not know that homes in Florida have fireplaces, much less seven of them.
Snap into a Slim Jim! Oh, wait, wrong wrestler.
The Florida fireplace - the most useless invention since the helium-filled paperweight. Good only for burning illegal documents before the cops kick your door in.
On another note, Hulk is probably moving out because he discovered his house was "French-style".
THE HULKSTER DOESN'T BROOK NO CHEESE-EATING SURRENDER MONKEY, BROTHER!
He will just do another PPV & expect some big name wrestler to carry him & then job.
Is this the house from the VH1 series? The one with all the animals/birds, etc.?
Isn't it on "Hogan Knows Best"
I like that show. He moved to Miami so his daughter could pursue her singing career.
Yes. I was wondering if the house that's for sale is the one on the show.
Why would he chose Miami for pursuing acting and singing careers?
Yeah, poor HBK...
Hogan tried to pull that on Steve Austin. Austin hates Hogan with a passion. Apparently they tried to get a Wrestlemania 22 match between the 2 of them worked out. Austin demanded complete creative control and a signed contract by Vince McMahon and Hogan stating that Hogan would be the one to job out, but the match never happened.
"I have respect for you and you have respect for me. If you take that off your head or you move from that chair, I'll consider it the ultimate disrespect to me and I will take a bite out of your forehead, Brother!"
"Let me tell ya somethin else about this house brother...."
wrestling bump.
**seven fireplaces,**
Yeah, that's really necessary in Tampa.
**that's a lot of wood splitting and lugging.
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Yeah!
But I don't think too much splitting and lugging is going on in the Hogan residence.
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