Thomas Magnum, of Magnum, P.I., lived on Oahu—and for a time so did the mustachioed actor who introduced him to life. But the place does Tom Selleck dwell now? When the hit CBS sequence wrapped after eight seasons in 1988, Selleck purchased a ranch in California’s Ventura County, amongst a couple of different SoCal properties. To at the present time, the Blue Bloods star calls that very same 63-acre plot house. Below, we’re exploring Selleck’s actual property investments over the years.
Hawaii house
During the filming of Magnum, from 1980 till 1988, Selleck reportedly rented a one-bedroom visitor cottage on a 5,000-square-foot plot of land in Honolulu. In 1993, he returned, shopping for the ocean-view property for an undisclosed sum and transferring into its 1929-built two-bedroom major home. He maintained the Hawaiian hideaway till 2001, when he offered it for $2.48 million. As of 2020, a yacht mast gifted to Selleck by a buddy who received the TransPacific Yacht Race nonetheless graced the property’s deck.
Los Angeles condominium
Though he primarily resided in Hawaii, Selleck wanted a spot to relaxation his head throughout weekend visits to Los Angeles. In 1984, he purchased a one-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bathroom apartment on Wilshire Boulevard. Spanning 1,800 sq. ft, the unit was perched on the sixteenth ground. “I didn’t mind the high-rise aspect, but I did want it to look older, as though it’s been lived in. And I think it does,” Selleck told Architectural Digest during a 1988 home tour. To that finish, he tapped designer James Blakeley III, who appointed the condominium with oak parquet flooring, Persian carpets, and honey-hued pine paneled partitions. “We had to hand-select the wood,” Selleck advised AD. “I used a shipbuilder who’s done a lot of boat interiors. It took a few tries to get it right. At one point it was all painted black, but I prefer the lighter sort of country-funky look.” Selleck crammed the house with antiques, Western gear, and duck decoys. Despite its Californian setting, Blakeley aptly referred to the completed inside as an “English gentleman’s town house retreat.”
In 1987, Selleck married English actress Jillie Mack, and the couple welcomed their daughter, Hannah, the following 12 months. With his growing family and new, bigger actual property investments underneath his belt, Selleck put the condo up for sale in 1990, asking $950,000. However, it’s unclear precisely when or for a way a lot the unit in the end modified fingers.
Hidden Valley ranch
Fresh from filming the closing season of Magnum in 1988, Selleck returned to the mainland, doubling down on properties in Los Angeles. Though the sequence had made him a star, he wished to take a beat exterior of the limelight. “I quit Magnum, not because I didn’t like it or I was tired of it,” he reflected in 2020. “I was tired from it. And I wanted a three-dimensional life because I didn’t have one.” Mainly, he wished to deal with household.
