Tom Ford just bought Jackie Kennedy’s home for US$52 million: the American luxury fashion designer splashed out on the former first lady’s childhood summer mansion in the Hamptons

Aug 17 , 2023

Tom Ford just splashed out on Jackie Kennedy’s former home in the Hamptons. Photos: AFP, Handout

American designer Tom Ford just forked out US$52 million to buy Jackie Kennedy Onassis’ childhood home in the Hamptons, where the former first lady spent her summers

The mansion has also been owned by David Zander and former Coach creative director Reed Krakoff and his wife Delphine, and the sale comes after Ford sold his eponymous label to Estée Lauder Cos.

Tom Ford has splashed out US$52 million on Jackie Kennedy Onassis’ childhood home, as per The Wall Street Journal.

The 61-year-old fashion designer – who sold his eponymous fashion label to Estée Lauder Cos. in a deal valued at around US$2.8 billion last November – recently bought the Hamptons home from media producer David Zander, according to Architectural Digest.

Tom Ford has splashed out US$52 million on Jackie Kennedy Onassis’ childhood home, located in the Hamptons, New York. Photo: Compass Realty

The house sits on 2.8 hectares (seven acres) of land, just blocks from the Atlantic Ocean and was originally listed for US$55 million, according to media reports.

It was designed by architect Arthur C. Jackson, completed in 1917, and includes an eight-bedroom main home featuring tall casement windows and beamed ceilings.

The compound also includes a two-bedroom guest house, caretaker’s cottage, pool house and three-car garage with a workshop, along with a flower meadow.

Zander bought the property from former Coach creative director Reed Krakoff and his wife Delphine for US$20 million in 2006, according to W magazine.

Designer Tom Ford launched his eponymous luxury fashion brand in 2005. Photo: Handout

It was recently restored by its current owner, with the main house feature 8,500 sq ft of Pierre Yovanovitch-designed living space.

Back in the 1920s, the property was known as Lasata – a Native American word meaning “Place of Peace” – and owned by the former first lady’s paternal grandfather John Vernou Bouvier Jr.

The home is believed to be where Onassis, who has a Gucci handbag named after her, would often spend her summers as a child, as reported by The Wall Street Journal.