When the world’s most famous couple hit the Coachella music festival in April, they didn’t have to venture far to find refuge from 200,000 sets of prying eyes. They turned to the Madison Club, an ultra- luxe sanctuary across the street from the concert grounds. A diamond in the California desert, the Madison Club, in the town of La Quinta, is a hidden oasis of rolling hills, world-class golf, and scores of vacationing celebrities, business executives and at least three billionaires.
The 500-acre patch boasts some 200 custom mansions dotting 18 lush greens designed by golf course legend Tom Fazio. Admission will cost you: Homes in the very gated community run upward of $30 million, and dues are $500,000 upfront plus $75,000 a year. But membership has its perks, including a top-notch day spa and, for golfers, “comfort stations” every four holes offering everything from ice cream sandwiches to bottles of tequila.
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The 500-acre patch boasts some 200 custom mansions dotting 18 lush greens designed by golf course legend Tom Fazio. Admission will cost you: Homes in the very gated community run upward of $30 million, and dues are $500,000 upfront plus $75,000 a year. But membership has its perks, including a top-notch day spa and, for golfers, “comfort stations” every four holes offering everything from ice cream sandwiches to bottles of tequila.
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00:00 When the world's most famous couple hit the Coachella Music Festival in April, Taylor
00:04 Swift and Travis Kelce didn't have to venture far to find refuge from 200,000 sets of prying
00:10 eyes.
00:12 They turned to the Madison Club, an ultra-luxe sanctuary across the street from the concert
00:17 grounds.
00:18 A diamond in the California desert, the 500-acre patch boasts some 200 custom mansions, dotting
00:25 18 lush greens designed by golf course legend Tom Fazio.
00:31 Admission will cost you.
00:32 Homes in the variegated community run upward of $30 million, and dues are $500,000 up front
00:40 plus $75,000 a year.
00:43 But membership has its perks, including a top-notch day spa and, for golfers, comfort
00:49 stations every four holes, offering everything from ice cream sandwiches to bottles of tequila.
00:56 The neighborhood has history.
00:58 Celebrities have been road tripping, jetting, and chompering the 100 miles from Hollywood
01:03 to the Palm Springs area for a century, dating to the eras of Greta Garbo and Frank Sinatra.
01:10 The current crop of A-listers has fallen for the modern-but-casual Madison, which developer
01:14 Mike Meldman sculpted out of a flat piece of ranch land beginning in 2005.
01:21 No clan owns more property at the Madison Club than the first family of reality TV,
01:26 the Kardashians.
01:28 Matriarch and momager Kris led the way, buying a seven-bedroom home away from home in 2018
01:34 for $12 million.
01:36 Kylie, 26, later built her own modern getaway next door.
01:42 Kim, 43, has a two-acre double lot up the road.
01:47 Kourtney, 45, bought a $12 million place a few streets over in 2021.
01:53 Meanwhile, Khloe, 39, owns two undeveloped plots nearby with her ex, NBA player Tristan
02:01 Thompson.
02:03 Pop star Justin Bieber shelled out $16.6 million for a 10,000-square-foot, 10-bathroom spread
02:09 with a next-door neighbor just as famous as he is, Kris Jenner.
02:14 Tim Cook, the billionaire Apple chief exec, paid $9.1 million in 2019 for a 10,000-square-foot
02:21 home with an infinity pool overlooking the 15th fairway, filling it with abstract art
02:27 and a custom piece depicting Mahatma Gandhi.
02:30 16-time Grammy winner Adele has yet to take the stage at Coachella, but she said hello
02:36 to the Madison Club in 2020, picking up a 7,600-square-foot mansion for $8 million.
02:44 Phil Knight, America's 20th richest person, scooped up a five-bedroom, 5,400-square-foot
02:51 Mediterranean manor overlooking the 14th hole in 2015 for $4.3 million, or 0.01% of his
02:59 current $39.2 billion fortune.
03:03 The Nike co-founder bought and sold an empty lot nearby as well.
03:20 (upbeat music)