Demi Moore and Bruce Willis took over an Idaho town
When former power couple Bruce Willis and Demi Moore were still married, they left Hollywood for a quieter life. According to the Independent, the two A-listers moved to Idaho in 1988, though not full-time. They settled in the small town of Hailey, a former mining town in the central part of the state, and later bought a lot of property there. Willis even employed several locals through his real estate company, which built office buildings, a nightclub, and more. At some point, things got contentious, and there's even a podcast, "Haileywood," that traces how the family took over the blue-collar town with their Hollywood ways.
But we're not here to debate whether Moore and Willis reinvigorated or ruined Hailey. After all, they both quarantined together at Moore's Hailey Ranch during the height of COVID-19, according to the magazine, so they can't be that hated locally. The blended family stayed on the same ranch where Moore and Willis raised their daughters Rumer, Scout, and Tallulah Willis. "When I realized that I needed to be with my children in one place for as long as it was, I didn't feel like it was a risk in terms of my career. It was just that my children were important to me," Moore explained in a statement. 2007 interview with People. “They were small, between five and 11 years old. It was not about: am I going to stop working? It was about: my children are important to me.”
Julia Roberts has a ranch in New Mexico
Being as famous as she is, Julia Roberts' love life has always been widely featured in the tabloids. According to Closer Weekly, she's been linked to stars like Kiefer Sutherland and Liam Neeson, she has engaged to Dylan McDermott and at one point had a brief marriage to country singer Lyle Lovett. She continued to date famous men after her divorce, but it wasn't until she started dating a non-celebrity that she Roberts found her happy ending. She met cameraman Danny Moder on the set of "The Mexican," and even though Moder was married, the couple began a romance, according to Us Weekly.
Roberts and Moder have three children, Hazel, Phinnaeus, and Henry, and have worked hard to keep them out of the spotlight and out of Hollywood. The family has several homes but spends much of their time on their ranch in Taos, New Mexico. According to Architectural Digest, Roberts owned the ranch before they were married, but she and Moder made it their primary residence after the birth of their twins in 2004. At one point, the family appeared to have settled in Malibu, but as the star said in 2022, they are now using their San Francisco home as their main base. “I think moving in with three teenagers during a pandemic is not for the faint of heart, but we've done it and everyone seems fine and happy,” Roberts said.
Mark Wahlberg moved his family to Nevada
When Boston native Mark Wahlberg moved his family out of California, he didn't flee to Massachusetts. Rather, he and his loved ones headed for nearby Nevada. “I moved to California many years ago to pursue acting, and I only did a couple of movies in the entire time I was there,” Wahlberg said on “The Talk” in 2022. “So, to be able to give my kids a life better and go ahead and chase your dreams, whether it's my daughter as an equestrian, my son as a basketball player, my youngest son as a golfer, this makes so much more sense to us."
In the aforementioned episode of "The Talk," Wahlberg also said that he hoped to make Nevada "Hollywood 2.0" and revealed plans to build a studio and factory. He also said that he spent much of his time at home, presumably with his four children and his wife Rhea Durham. The couple's children, Ella, Michael, Brendan, and Grace, may have been sad to leave their $90 million California mansion, but we're sure they're living just as well in their new home. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Wahlberg and his wife spent $15.6 million on 2.5 acres of land in the exclusive Summerlin community in Las Vegas. If that's the cost of the land, he knows the house will be spectacular.
