Luka Doncic of the Los Angeles Lakers purchased retired tennis star Maria Sharapova’s custom Japanese-inspired home in Manhattan Beach in late August for $25 million. (Photo by Dean Musgrove, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Luka Doncic of the Los Angeles Lakers in late August paid $25 million for the Manhattan Beach home of retired five-time Grand Slam singles champion Maria Sharapova.
The modern three-story house features five bedrooms, a two-lane bowling alley and a great room that opens to the pool’s edge.
Doncic, the 26-year-old Slovenian basketball player who signed a three-year, $165 million contract extension with the Lakers in August, acquired the property through his business manager, Lara Beth Seager, according to records viewed at PropertyShark.com and confirmed by the Southern California News Group.
Seager declined to provide additional details about the Aug. 27 deal.
Luka Doncic of the Los Angeles Lakers purchased retired tennis star Maria Sharapova’s custom Japanese-inspired home in Manhattan Beach in late August for $25 million. (Photo by Dean Musgrove, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Custom built in 2015, the house sits on just under a quarter-acre lot in the Hill Section, “known for large lots, ocean views and, as in the case of this home, stellar new builds,” said Dave Fratello, a broker with Edge Real Estate Agency who also produces the MB Confidential blog.
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Although not involved in the Sharapova-Doncic deal, Fratello is intimately familiar with the neighborhood, which has attracted other athletes from the world of professional sports. Last year, he blogged that former L.A. Rams quarterback Jared Goff was planning to build a mega-estate across two lots he purchased separately.
Goff, who now plays for the Detroit Lions, paid $10.5 million in May 2023 for a French country-style mansion. The house, originally built in 1987 and later remodeled, was formerly owned by Danny Zuker, a writer and producer for “Modern Family.” In November 2023, he acquired the neighbor’s house, built in 1952 and later remodeled, for $8.575 million.
“That area of the Hill Section’s values are so high, and the perception of the desirability is so strong, that virtually any house that’s 20 or 25 years old is bulldozer bait,” Fratello said. “What we’re talking about here is the higher part, which lends itself to the best views in the city of the ocean down to Palos Verdes.”
Luka Doncic of the Los Angeles Lakers purchased retired tennis star Maria Sharapova’s custom Japanese-inspired home in Manhattan Beach in late August for $25 million. (Photo by Dean Musgrove, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Records show Sharapova, 38, bought the property in August 2012 for $4.1 million.
After razing the existing home, she built the new structure designed in collaboration with Los Angeles-based firm KAA Design, according to Architectural Digest.
“I was obsessed with the process of making this home,” she told the magazine in June 2019. “I’d jump off a plane from a tournament and go straight to the worksite or to the architect’s office or to a kitchen manufacturer. This was my project, and I wasn’t going to delegate any part of it.”
From the street, there’s not much to see of what Sharapova described in a video tour with AD as “a Japanese-inspired home by the beach.”
Luka Doncic of the Los Angeles Lakers paid $25 million for a modern three-level home in Manhattan Beach’s Hill Section, custom-built by retired tennis star Maria Sharapova, the previous owner. (File photo by Justin Edmonds/Getty Images)
Trees surround the house, and an entry gate conceals a Japanese-style courtyard with a fountain.
Beyond the front door is the double-height foyer. The minimalist space features a soaring glass wall, a floating staircase and poured concrete and wood siding walls that flow throughout the home inside and out.
Disappearing glass walls extend the open kitchen and great room onto the outdoor deck, which includes a built-in barbecue center, a covered dining area and an outdoor fireplace near the pool.
Climbing the stairs to the private quarters.
The basement level holds the bowling alley.
The Wall Street Journal reported in July that Sharapova and her fiancé, British businessman Alexander Gilkes, were selling the home for $24.995 million to spend more time in Europe with their family. They also own a house in Florida.
It’s unclear who represented Doncic in the sale, but Susan Perryman of Hilton and Hyland, who did not respond to a request for information, represented Sharapova.
Khobi Price, who covers the Lakers for the Southern California News Group, contributed to this report.