Eddie Murphy places NJ home on market for $30 million

Jet, Jan 24, 2005

Actor-comedian Eddie Murphy's seven-bedroom New Jersey mansion that includes a bowling alley, theater and recording studio is on the market for $30 million.

Murphy, 43, who has owned the gated estate known as "Bubble Hill" in Englewood, NJ, for 18 years, put it on the market in December, The Record of Bergen County newspaper reported.

The star of such box-office smashes as The Nutty Professor, Trading Places and Beverly Hills Cop, bought the 25,000-square-foot home in 1986, four years after it was built.

"It's an absolutely magnificent, stupendous house," Mary Lenk of Burgdorff Realtors ERA told the newspaper.

The mansion also carries a hefty annual property tax, totaling nearly $200,000 in 2004, tax records show.