From the San Francisco Standard, September 4:
Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich sells prime SF, Marin properties for $84 million
In addition to a $68 million compound in San Francisco, the artist sold a 161-acre plot in Marin County, which will become public open space.
Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich has been offloading major Bay Area real estate in recent weeks: San Francisco’s biggest combined home sale of 2026 and a Marin County property that is one of the largest private landholdings within 20 miles of the city limits.
The 62-year-old heavy metal star is the owner behind two trusts on adjoining Presidio Heights mansions that were sold on the same day last week for almost $68 million, a source confirmed to The Standard. Though the price is for two separate homes, if treated as one transaction it would be the second-highest sale in city history, after Laurene Powell Jobs’ $71 million purchase on Billionaire’s Row in 2024.
Ulrich purchased the homes from longtime friend and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff in two separate transactions nearly a decade ago.
The larger of the two, a 16,000-square-foot property at 3277 Pacific Ave., was purchased for $30 million in May 2017 through a trust connected to family office firm WG & S, as first reported by The Real Deal (opens in new tab).
WG & S’ cofounder and former managing partner Eric Wasserman is a board member of Metallica’s All Within My Hands Foundation and a partner at Black Squirrel Partners, the band’s family office....
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In other celebrity real estate news, BBC, September 9:
Nicolas Cage's driveway collapses as sinkhole opens up at his Malibu home
