Magazine offers an inside look at Sylvester Stallone's lakeside Palm Beach estate
And with plenty of wall space, the North End home is a terrific place to showcase his notable art collection, he told Veranda for a cover story about the estate, which appears in the September/October issue of the magazine. Among the article’s nuggets, Stallone said he likes to shake up the display of his art from time to time.
“I consider it like a wardrobe. You can only wear the same shirt so many times before you go, ‘God, I’d like to see if this other color works [with it].’ With art, you can take a piece that you’ve become … maybe not blasé about, but you’re not exactly overwhelmed by it anymore. You move that piece to another room — now you’re invigorated! It’s like furniture: messing around, moving it around, constantly restimulating our minds,” Stallone said in the article by Ryan D’Agostino.
On Aug. 13, Stallone grabbed headlines when President Donald Trump announced the Hollywood icon was among the five Kennedy Center Honorees for 2025. The other honorees announced include the rock band KISS; Broadway and film star Michael Crawford and singers George Strait and Gloria Gaynor.
In Palm Beach, Stallone shares his gated estate with his wife, former model Jennifer Flavin. They bought the house at 1480 N. Lake Way as a vacation retreat — paying a recorded $35.38 million in December 2020 — and own it through The Southpaw Trust, a nod to Stallone’s Rocky character’s famous left hook. The sale was previously reported by the Palm Beach Daily News.
They have since carried out extensive remodeling projects at the Caribbean-style property, which has a main residence and two outbuildings facing the Intracoastal Waterway.
In February 2024, Stallone and Flavin announced the house would become their primary residence after their many years in California, as previously reported by the Palm Beach Daily News.
The moment when Stallone told his three grown daughters — Scarlet, Sistine and Sophia — about the decision to relocate “permanently” to Florida was televised as part of the Season 2 opener of his reality series “The Family Stallone.
Featured in the September/October issue of Veranda, the Palm Beach estate Sylvester Stallone shares with his wife, Jennifer Flavin, has a keyhole-shaped lakefront swimming pool.
“After long, hard consideration, your mother and I have decided (it’s) time to move on and leave the state of California permanently,” he said during the program. “And, we're going to Florida.”
The reality program has not been renewed, unlike Stallone’s other television show, “Tulsa King,” which is filming its third season with a commitment form Paramount+ for a fourth, according to published reports.
In the Veranda article, Stallone described his house-hunting journey, when he had looked at other homes he described as “monstrosities. Monumental structures, but none of them embraced you or made you feel warm. You felt as though you were in a hotel lobby.”
Sylvester Stallone’s Palm Beach estate has scalloped Dutch-style gables among its architectural elements.
But his Palm Beach estate, he added, told a completely different story. The house “throws you right out into nature,” Stallone said.
As an example, the keyhole-shaped pool extending from the glass doors of the gym points toward the lakefront’s sandy area that acts as a private beach.
Built in 2014, the house occupies 1½ acres with 253 feet of lakefront. In all, the property had seven bedrooms and 13,241 square feet of living space, inside and out, when the property sold in 2020, the Palm Beach Daily News reported at the time.
Broker Christian Angle of Christian Angle Real Estate represented the couple's interest in that deal, with broker Lawrence Moens of Lawrence A. Moens Associates acting on behalf of the sellers, industrial entrepreneurs Ronald G. and Cindy McMackin. The McMackins moved to Manalapan, south of Palm Beach.
For the renovation and redecoration of their Palm Beach home, Stallone and his wife chose California designer Martyn Lawrence Bullard, Veranda reports.
Bullard told the magazine that the house had plenty of room without being gigantic. “It doesn’t have eight living rooms for no reason,” Bullard quipped.
Stallone added: “When we saw it, it automatically felt inviting.”
Flavin, meanwhile, described the home as having “a livable size.”
The house also has high ceilings with expansive windows and French doors that bring in natural light to enhance the display of paintings, according to the Veranda story.
Sylvester Stallone’s home in Palm Beach is filled with selections from the Hollywood icon's art collection. The estate is featured in the September/October issue of Veranda.
“I’ve always made every house we’ve ever had a home,” Flavin told the magazine. “I don’t care if someone spills something. I can replace the rug or get it cleaned. We have three dogs and a cat and lots of children — nothing we own is precious. Our family is precious, but the material things are not precious.”
Toward that end, Bullard created interiors suited for an informal and relaxed lifestyle. “The house was given a loungy vibe,” the designer told the magazine. “All of the custom pieces are deep and comfortable, and the fabrics used — while mainly in a light palette — are all performance fabrics, designed to withstand family life and dogs and parties.”
The September/October 2025 issue of Veranda showcases the interiors of the Palm Beach home of Sylvester Stallone and his wife, Jennifer Flavin.
And what would a movie star’s home be without a media room?
“The screening room definitely has a theme,” Stallone told Veranda. “It’s about where I came from.”
The mementos on display include a knife from "First Blood," his boxing robe from "Rocky," and — in a glass case — the original version of his Oscar-nominated "Rocky" screenplay.
The screening room of Sylvester Stallone’s Palm Beach estate features mementos from Stallone's films, including his boxing robe from "Rocky."
The New York-born star of multiple “Rocky” and “Rambo” films has strong ties to Florida. During his student years, Stallone took classes at Miami Dade College before enrolling in the University of Miami’s acting school, where he received his bachelor of fine arts degree.
His late father and polo enthusiast, Frank Stallone Sr., had a longtime home in the equestrian village of Wellington, about 30 miles west of Palm Beach.
Stallone is only one of a constellation of celebrities who own homes in Palm Beach. That list includes rockers Jon Bon Jovi and Rod Stewart, television host and radio shock jock Howard Stern; Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz; and conservative firebrand Sean Hannity.
Darrell Hofheinz is a USA TODAY Network of Florida journalist who writes about Palm Beach real estate in his weekly “Beyond the Hedges” column. He welcomes tips about real estate news on the island. Email [email protected], call 561-820-3831 or send him a message on X @PBDN_Hofheinz. Help support our journalism. Subscribe today.
