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Daily Mail
14-05-2025
- Business
- Daily Mail
Petra Ecclestone and Sam Palmer reveal why they are putting their palatial £31.5 million Los Angeles mansion on the market just two years after buying it
As a billionaire's daughter, Petra Ecclestone might expect to have a 'forever home'. Instead, the Formula 1 heiress is apparently condemned to life on the move. 'We do projects – we design homes then sell them,' explains her husband, Sam Palmer, who has put their LA pad on the market for £31.5 million. Sam, 40, and Petra, 36, bought the house, which has seven bedrooms and an infinity pool, two years ago for £23 million. 'We're staying in LA,' he adds. 'We love it here.' Petra and Sam, who is an estate agent specialising in 'off market luxury property' look set to make a healthy profit on the sprawling seven-bedroom, 13,500sq ft mansion which was built by Emily White, a former Snapchat executive, and her financier husband Bryan Kelly, meaning it was never on the market. Back in January Petra confirmed the home miraculously escaped the raging bushfires that have caused mass destruction across Los Angeles. Sam previously admitted they were 'praying for a miracle' as the fire tore across upscale Pacific Palisades, a stone's throw from their palatial £30million home in Brentwood. Petra and Sam, who is an estate agent specialising in 'off market luxury property' look set to make a healthy profit on the sprawling seven-bedroom, 13,500sq ft mansion In the midst of the fires the family fled their property, initially relocating to the Beverly Hilton Hotel before leaving the city. Engaging in a question and answer session with followers Petra later admitted they were thankfully out of danger, and their home was intact. She wrote: 'Safe and evacuated from the fires... the most scary and surreal thing I have ever had to have gone through. 'We are so grateful that for now our home is still standing for now. Thoughts and prayers for all our friends who lost their homes.' Petra also revealed the schools her children attend had been burned during the blaze, which reduced much of the Palisades to rubble. Asked if the fires had affected her home or area, she added: 'Yes... my children's schools have been and we live next to the Palisades, which to me was one of the best and most beautiful parts of Los Angeles... a lovely community full of amazing families... still does not feel real. Praying for Los Angeles right now.' Confirming the family were no longer in Los Angeles, she wrote: 'We left luckily after being in the middle of it all... so grateful to be safe.' Petra and Sam tied the knot in July 2022, enjoying a lavish ceremony at the F1 heiress's £170 million London mansion. The couple share daughter Millie, three, together and Petra's daughter Lavinia, 11, and twin boys James and Andrew, eight, from her marriage to ex husband, James Stunt.
Wall Street Journal
07-05-2025
- Business
- Wall Street Journal
Formula One Heiress Petra Ecclestone Lists Los Angeles Mansion
Four months after the Los Angeles wildfires threatened to destroy it, the Brentwood home of Formula One heiress Petra Ecclestone and her husband, Sam Palmer, is going on the market for $41.95 million. The couple paid $30.5 million for the property in 2023, then renovated it and redid the landscaping. During the January fires, they fled to the Beverly Hills Hotel and later relocated temporarily to London, the English couple said. While their home was spared, two of their children's schools were destroyed, along with much of their local community in neighboring Pacific Palisades. The children have been home-schooled since the fires, Palmer said, and finding a new school for them will help dictate the location of their new home.
South China Morning Post
13-03-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Who is James Stunt, Petra Ecclestone's ex? He married ex-F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone's daughter in a lavish Italian ceremony, but they had a bitter divorce amid allegations of abuse and drug addiction
Late last year, Petra Ecclestone – daughter of controversial ex- Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone – spent time unwinding with her family in Dubai. The Crickle Daisy beauty brand founder was on holiday with her husband, businessman Sam Palmer and four children and posted plenty of photos on Instagram. She shares three of her kids, daughter Lavinia and twin sons James and Andrew, with ex-husband James Stunt, and her youngest girl, Minnie, with her current husband. The getaway was also in celebration of Ecclestone's turning 36, or as she's calling it, 'thirty something'. Before the family holiday, she stepped out for date night with Palmer at Giorgio Baldi, the Italian restaurant in Santa Monica , Los Angeles. The pair have been married for two years and together for six. They met through her sister Tamara's husband Jay Rutland and started dating a year after Ecclestone's acrimonious split from Stunt in 2017, as Page Six noted. At the time of her wedding to Palmer, Bernie said he hoped his daughter would 'be happier than she was in her last marriage'. Advertisement Petra Ecclestone is married to businessman Sam Palmer. Photo: @petraecclestoneofficial/Instagram So, what happened in Petra Ecclestone's first marriage and who is James Stunt? She once said Stunt claimed he was Prince Philip's illegitimate son, while Stunt himself told Tatler he counted Sean 'Diddy' Combs 'a personal friend'. He has just been cleared of laundering US$292 million (£226 million) in 'dirty' money that could have originated from criminal activities. What else do we know about him? What is James Stunt's background? Petra Ecclestone's ex-husband James Stunt reportedly has ties to the underworld. Photo: @officialjamesstunt/Instagram James' father is Geoffrey Stunt, a bigwig in the publishing industry. In the interview with Tatler, Stunt called his father a 'self-made man', adding, 'I'm very proud of the fact my father's working class.' However, he can't say the same about himself. He received £1 million from his father at 21 but claims to have made his first £4 million through an oil trade at 16. He was educated at Bradfield College, a prestigious private school in Berkshire, England, followed by a Mander Portman Woodward independent school and later graduated from the European Business School in London's Regent's Park. Stunt also has connections to the underworld through his godfather Terry Adams, the notorious boss behind the Clerkenwell crime syndicate. Speaking to Tatler, Stunt gushed over his godfather, calling him an 'absolutely amazing guy' and 'the most moralled' individual. His wedding to Petra Ecclestone was expensive
