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TagsBillionaire reportedly interested in Alpine, N.J. mansion
BY BOB HOLT
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
"The Real Housewives of New Jersey" may be gaining a new neighbor.
Oprah Winfrey has been spotted looking at homes in the northern New Jersey area.
For her part, Winfrey denied any interest in moving to New Jersey.
This morning, according to the New York Daily News, Winfrey took to Twitter to stop the gossip:
"No truth to me looking for a house in Jersey. No idea who started that rumor. Been in Chicago all week working," she tweeted.
According to published reports, Winfrey quietly slipped into town Wednesday for a house-hunting expedition along the banks of the Hudson River, sources said.
Among the homes on her list: a $68 million mansion on the sprawling grounds of the old Frick estate in Alpine, N.J., the sources said.
Prominentproperties.com lists the home as a Colonial, with twelve bedrooms, 15 full and three half-baths, 42 rooms, and a basketball court and locker in the basement. Quaint.
Oprah's three-car entourage pulled into the ritzy enclave before noon Wednesday, a source said.
The billionaire then toured the 30,300-square-foot, English-manor-style mansion, which is part of the "Estates at Alpine."
Workers and others on the grounds were asked to make themselves scarce while Oprah checked out the five-story home, according to one source.
Mail Online reports the spread is 63-acres which will surely come in handy if Oprah and her best friend, Gayle King decide to indulge their new found love of camping.
Alpine last year was named by Forbes Magazine as the most expensive ZIP code in the country. Its celebrity residents include Eddie Murphy, the Jonas Brothers and CC Sabathia.
The New York Post reports the estate eyed by Oprah is the most expensive in Alpine, with walnut and marble floors and Venetian plaster walls.
There's a carriage house, English gardens, a library, ballroom, movie theater, tennis court, saline pool and wine cellar.
Before hitting Alpine, Oprah and her entourage were spotted a few miles north in Snedens Landing.
It's unclear what property Oprah was looking at there.
