The Obamas Just Purchased This $11.5 Million Mansion on Martha’s Vineyard

Just in time for the holidays, former U.S. president and first lady, Barack and Michelle Obama, purchased an $11.75 million home on Martha’s Vineyard days before Thanksgiving, according to a deed filed on Dec. 4, reports Forbes.

According to the Vineyard Gazette, the beloved “forever first family” bought the seven-bedroom mansion from private equity investor and Boston Celtics owner Wycliffe Grousbeck and his ex-wife, Corinne Basler Grousbeck, at a discount: the original asking price was $22.5 million, which dropped to $16.25 million in June and then to $14.85 million in July.

Built in 2001, the 6,892-square-foot property is located on nearly 30 acres of land within an enclave on the coast of Massachusetts. It includes eight and a half baths, multiple stone fireplaces, a two-car garage, a barn, and a pool.

The sprawling 6,892-square-foot house sits on 29.3 secluded acres fronting the Edgartown Great Pond between Slough Cove and Turkeyland Cove, with views of a barrier beach and the ocean beyond. Designed by Bradenburger Taylor Lombardo Architects in San Francisco, the home was built in 2001 by John Early, a well-known Island contractor, reports the Gazette.

The Obamas, like many black elites in Hollywood, frequent Martha’s Vineyard over the summer. In fact, the former president and his family spent part of every August at the popular summer destination for seven out of the eight years that he was in the White House.

During their years as First Family, they rented several different properties in Chilmark. For three summers beginning in 2009, the first family vacationed at Blue Heron Farm, a 28-acre property on the Tisbury Great Pond, just over the Chilmark-West Tisbury town line. Later they rented a 7,000-square-foot home overlooking Chilmark Pond, and more recently spent several summers at a spacious home overlooking the Island’s north shore, reports the Gazette.

Records show that Grousbeck and his ex-wife purchased the land for $3.1 million back in 1998 from Geoffrey Gund.

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Simone Biles’ brother’s lawyers believes there’s no evidence for his murder charges

In pre-trial motions, lawyers for Tevin Biles-Thomas, the brother of U.S. Olympic gymnast Simone Biles who is charged in a triple murder in Cleveland, say there’s no evidence against Biles-Thomas and that he was charged by police after they improperly questioned him.

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According to Cleveland.com, Biles-Thomas, 25, was indicted in August for murder, voluntary manslaughter, felonious assault and perjury in the deaths of Devaughn Gibson, 23, DelVaunte Johnson, 19, and Toshaun Banks, 21. In addition, a woman and man, also in their early twenties, were injured in the shooting that occurred at a New Year’s Eve party at an Airbnb rental. Police say some men came to the party uninvited and were asked to leave, which caused a fight to break out.

Biles-Thomas, an Army Corporal, is reportedly Gibson’s cousin, according to Cleveland.com and the two came to the party together, according to his attorney, Joseph Patituce, who added that Johnson and Banks were already at the party.

Police interrogated Biles-Thomas on Feb. 8, although he thought he was just coming in to give police a statement since he reportedly witnessed his cousin’s death, Patituce said.

“He had no idea he was a suspect,” Patituce told Cleveland.com. “He just wanted to tell the officer what he saw that night, and the next thing he knew he was being told he was a suspect in a serious crime.”

Patituce asked the Cuyahoga Common Pleas Court judge on the case to suppress all statements that Biles-Thomas made after he first told police he wanted a lawyer present. And Patituce filed another motion blaming prosecutors for withholding evidence in the case. He wants the judge to release transcripts from Grand Jury testimony to learn what evidence prosecutors have to charge Biles-Thomas.

READ MORE: Simone Biles sends emotional tweet after brother charged in triple-homicide

Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O’Malley’s office has not yet filed its response to the defense motions.

A pretrial hearing will be held Dec. 18.

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The Obamas Just Purchased This $11.5 Million Mansion on Martha’s Vineyard

Just in time for the holidays, former U.S. president and first lady, Barack and Michelle Obama, purchased an $11.75 million home on Martha’s Vineyard days before Thanksgiving, according to a deed filed on Dec. 4, reports Forbes.

According to the Vineyard Gazette, the beloved “forever first family” bought the seven-bedroom mansion from private equity investor and Boston Celtics owner Wycliffe Grousbeck and his ex-wife, Corinne Basler Grousbeck, at a discount: the original asking price was $22.5 million, which dropped to $16.25 million in June and then to $14.85 million in July.

Built in 2001, the 6,892-square-foot property is located on nearly 30 acres of land within an enclave on the coast of Massachusetts. It includes eight and a half baths, multiple stone fireplaces, a two-car garage, a barn, and a pool.

The sprawling 6,892-square-foot house sits on 29.3 secluded acres fronting the Edgartown Great Pond between Slough Cove and Turkeyland Cove, with views of a barrier beach and the ocean beyond. Designed by Bradenburger Taylor Lombardo Architects in San Francisco, the home was built in 2001 by John Early, a well-known Island contractor, reports the Gazette.

The Obamas, like many black elites in Hollywood, frequent Martha’s Vineyard over the summer. In fact, the former president and his family spent part of every August at the popular summer destination for seven out of the eight years that he was in the White House.

During their years as First Family, they rented several different properties in Chilmark. For three summers beginning in 2009, the first family vacationed at Blue Heron Farm, a 28-acre property on the Tisbury Great Pond, just over the Chilmark-West Tisbury town line. Later they rented a 7,000-square-foot home overlooking Chilmark Pond, and more recently spent several summers at a spacious home overlooking the Island’s north shore, reports the Gazette.

Records show that Grousbeck and his ex-wife purchased the land for $3.1 million back in 1998 from Geoffrey Gund.

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