LeBron James’s custom hilltop mansion is really beginning to take shape.
The Los Angeles Lakers star may be enjoying the off-season, but his work is far from over. The 40-year-old MVP is in the midst of building a megamansion in Beverly Hills, Realtor.com reported. The massive project on 2.5 prime acres is five years in the making.
Impressive progress photos revealed a multilevel main house surrounded by scaffolding, neighboring a smaller abode with a finished facade.
James purchased the $39 million property in 2020 from television host Lee Phillip Bell and her husband, soap opera legend William J. Bell. The Bells created the shows “The Young and the Restless,” and “The Bold and the Beautiful,” that defined American daytime television for decades.
The four-bedroom abode’s star-studded history stretched back even further — it was previously leased by American business magnate and aviation figure Howard Hughes to his ex-girlfriend, the actress Katharine Hepburn, at the height of her career.
James ultimately paid $36.75 million for the Mediterranean-inspired home in September of 2020. He subsequently razed the 13,000-square-foot structure — theatrical screening room, tennis court, swimming pool and all — in 2023 after getting permits approved.
The hilltop pile of dirt, accessed by one of the longest driveways in Los Angeles, has slowly transformed into a sprawling, multilevel compound over the past two years.
Aerial photos of the project, exclusively reported by Realtor.com,…