When he decides to invest in stone, Mick Jagger does not go with the back of the spoon! In 1980, the legendary singer of the Rolling Stones actually acquired the Château de Fourchette, an 18th century residence located in France, near Pocé-sur-Cisse in Touraine. At the time, the 78-year-old artist had invested “only“2.2 million francs, or approximately 840,000 euros, to become the owner of this very large estate. But the renovations linked to this little real estate madness have, of course, increased this sum.
To preserve the spirit of Château de Fourchette while refurbishing it, Mick Jagger had to take out the checkbook and line up the zeros. The Brit called on an international design firm and invested in period furniture. The estate’s formal gardens have also been redesigned. The musician added a swimming pool, a tennis court, a pond with a waterfall and built a Japanese pagoda. The small chapel that was historically present in these places has, for its part, been transformed into a recording studio. Which is very practical when your name is Mick Jagger, of course, but all this would have cost in total, according to the Touraine magazinemore than 3 million euros spent in two decades.
In 2020, when the world was put under glass because of the Covid-19 pandemic, Mick Jagger had chosen the Château de Fourchette to isolate himself with his companion and Deveraux Octavian Basil, her 5 year old son. Rather nice, as a place of confinement, although the artist is spoiled for choice – he owns a house in Richmond, two apartments and a house in New York and a house on Mustique Island. Listed as a historical monument, having once belonged to the Duke of Choiseul, the singer’s French residence has twelve bedrooms and is located in the middle of an area of around twenty hectares, protected by a wall, many poplars, and leading to a vine-covered plateau. No wonder even Adam Levine, lead singer of Maroon 5, wants to move like Jagger him too…