He’s a global rock star, having written some of the biggest hits of the last twenty years. He’s married and dated Hollywood A-listers and lives in a Malibu mansion. However, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin came from far humbler surroundings.
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A Modest Middle-Class Start
The chart-topper was born in the unglamorous city of Exeter in 1977, South West England and grew up in Whitestone’s picturesque but tiny village, just four miles from Exeter city center. Martin attended a local Cathedral school and was raised in a six-bedroom Georgian family home. It was a decent middle-class start, befitting his father’s thriving family business selling motor homes. However, it pales compared to some of Martin’s subsequent homesteads, post-rock-star status.
Malibu Rising
The Englishman called Malibu home to be close to his children when he and his ex-wife, Gwyneth Paltrow, divorced. When he and current fiancee Dakota Johnson started dating, Martin stayed in the A-list-heavy enclave. Martin and Johnson moved in together in 2020, buying a $12.5 million Cape Cod-style mansion featuring five bedrooms and seven bathrooms before selling it a year later for $14.4 million.
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Martin has owned several high-priced homes in the area over the years. These include the Garwood Residence, a $14.4 million waterfront home he purchased with Paltrow in 2014, taking ownership after their divorce. He subsequently razed it to construct a new home to share with Johnson.
In 2018, Martin purchased a different property – a $4.5 million theater at Point Dume. The property’s former incarnations include the Shepherd-by-the-Sea Church and later the famed longtime Malibu Playhouse. He still owns it today.
In 2019, enamored with the area, Martin also purchased a relatively small 1,800-square-foot ranch house for $5,475,000, as first reported in The Standard. The house is ideally located for walks on the nearby private Little Dume Beach.