With home purchase, Mick Jagger and Melanie Hamrick boost Manatee-Sarasota's star power
The Lakewood Ranch house is one of multiple locales the couple has to visit.
Jimmy Geurts
This week's announcement that Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger and his ballet dancer girlfriend Melanie Hamrick have bought a Lakewood Ranch house added yet more star power to the list of celebrities with luxury homes in Sarasota-Manatee, as well as another property in the couple's globe-spanning list of locales.
Jagger and Hamrick have purchased a four-bedroom house in The Lake Club in the planned community in Manatee County, according to Michael Saunders & Company. It was sold for $1,980,000 on Oct. 28, according to MSC, with the couple choosing the fully gated village for its privacy and proximity to Hamrick's family, who live in the area.
"We were excited about the announcement, but assume that they chose The Lake Club in Lakewood Ranch for its beauty and privacy," LWR Communities LLC senior vice president Laura Cole said in a statement. "To that end, we hope that they will feel welcome, while enjoying the serenity that The Lake Club affords."
The Lakewood Ranch house is under the name of Hamrick, who performed with New York City's American Ballet Theatre until retiring from the company last year. The couple have a 4-year-old son, Deveraux.
Jagger also spends time in London and the Caribbean island of Mustique, with Variety reporting in 2016 that his beachfront property was available for groups of up to 10 to lease, along with owning a smaller property next door. He also owns a French castle, La Fourchette, where he spent time during the pandemic earlier this year, according to the Daily Mail.
Sources told the New York Post's Page Six that Jagger bought Hamrick the Lakewood Ranch house for Christmas and that she will make Florida her home base. According to Page Six, the couple plans to spend the holidays in London first, rather than Jagger's usual Mustique retreat.
Other celebrities who have homes in Sarasota-Manatee include AC/DC singer Brian Johnson and television personality Jerry Springer on Bird Key, renowned author Stephen King on Casey Key and founding Allman Brothers Band member Dickey Betts on Little Sarasota Bay in Osprey. Basketball sportscaster Dick Vitale also has a house in Lakewood Ranch.