Tina Turner said goodbye to America decades ago when she began dating longtime partner and now-husband, Erwin Bach.
After living abroad for years, she finally married him in 2013 and even renounced her US citizenship.
This past September, in their latest move to expand their portfolio in Switzerland where they now live full time, the couple shelled out a whopping $76 million for a 10-building waterfront estate overlooking Lake Zürich.
Swiss news reports reveal that tennis star Roger Federer considered buying the property at one point before settling on a different home in the same community of Staefa Village — outside Zürich.
In an interview with local publication Daily Handelszeitung, the 82-year-old singer’s husband, a native of Germany, said the move was made after they both obtained Swiss nationality.
“[We] feel very comfortable in Switzerland,” Bach said. “Due to the pandemic and its consequences we — like many other Swiss — unfortunately, are refraining from travel.”
They will utilize the compound, which spans more than 240,000 square feet, as a “new weekend retreat in the immediate vicinity,” Bach added.
Features of the estate include a private pond, stream, swimming pool and boat deck.
For years, the two rented a home, known as Chateau Algonquin, in the town of Kuesnacht, outside of Zürich, until they obtained their citizenship in the country.
Swiss law notes that nonresidents are unable to buy land in the country, with strict restrictions on foreigners wanting to buy property.
In a resurfaced clip from an interview Turner did with the late Larry King in 1997,…