J.K. Rowling Buys $1.3 Million Home, Destroys It To Put In Garden
From the archive: published Jun 10, 2011, 15 years ago. Details may have changed since.
J.K. Rowling is so rich from her creation of the Harry Potter books, movies and merchandise that she recently purchased a $1.3 million home next to her $3.3 million mansion just so she could tear it down.
Rowling wanted to put in a garden where the “cheaper” home was residing and after purchasing the property she received permission from the city council to raze the house and put in her dream garden.
With a personal net worth estimated at $867 million the cost was just a drop in the bucket and in all fairness to Rowling she is also planning to build a stone hut-style summer house on the property that will resemble the hut that Harry Potter actor Hagrid lives in.