`Richest’ supermodel jilts L.A.

Posted by mija on Apr 28, 2007 in News, Various | 0 comments

Gisele Bundchen, one of the world’s most famous faces in modeling, has for the moment turned up her nose at living in Los Angeles.
The 26-year-old, who has appeared on the covers of just about every major international fashion magazine since – as the story goes – she was discovered in a Brazilian shopping mall at age 14, has sold her 4,000-square-foot Hollywood Hills home for $4 million and is now living in New York.
The one-story, gated Spanish hacienda in the Sunset Strip area that she sold has a media room, a gym, city views and a pool. The home has four bedrooms – room enough for all of Bundchen’s five sisters, including her twin – to stay overnight.
Bundchen said an official farewell in 2005 to her relationship with Leonardo DiCaprio. They were chosen by People magazine as the “Most Beautiful Couple in the World” in 2004.
Her personal fortune, valued at $150 million, put her in the “Guinness World Records” book as “the world’s richest supermodel.”
She has modeled for Victoria’s Secret, Louis Vuitton, Valentino, Lanvin and Vogue Eyewear. She is a spokesmodel for Christian Dior and Ralph Lauren. And she has her own line of shoes, called Ipanema Gisele Bundchen. More than 100 million pairs have been sold in six years.