In October 2020, Gene Simmons put his home of almost 40 years on the market for a whopping $22 million. Per The Wall Street Journal, the 16,000-square-foot mansion boasts a number of high-class features, including "a foyer with a domed ceiling, a living room with roughly 30-foot-high windows, a formal dining room and a wine cellar," in addition to three entire rooms dedicated to Kiss memorabilia and a pool with a 60-foot water slide. The mansion has seven bedrooms, a tennis court, and parking for 35 cars. TMZ reports he made improvements on the house and upped the price to $25 million.
Simmons cited California's high taxes as a primary motivator for moving. "California and Beverly Hills have been treating folks that create jobs badly and the tax rates are unacceptable," he said. "I work hard and pay my taxes and I don't want to cry the Beverly Hills blues, but enough is enough."
At the time, Simmons told The Wall Street Journal that he was intending to move to Washington state, near Mount Rainier. But when he spoke to the New York Post in March 2021, he was living in a 12,000-square-foot mansion on four acres near Lake Tahoe, and announced he was officially leaving California for Nevada. "The quality of life is better there, so we can go hiking without bumping into people," he said, adding that "taxes there are much more appealing," noting that high taxes made California "uninhabitable."
