The only home of Joyce Giraud that has been shown in any detail is the Beverly Hills-area house she shared with her husband, producer Michael Ohoven, during her one season on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills in 2013-2014. Bravo published a photo tour of it, with a gold-trimmed dining room, stained-glass windows, a library and a backyard set up for two small boys. No purchase price, sale record or square footage for that house has been reported.
A second claim circulates online: that the couple bought an $8 million house in Boca Raton, Florida, in late 2021. For anyone searching the Joyce Giraud house in Florida, that figure traces back to a single celebrity map page, not to a news report or a property record, so it should be treated as unconfirmed.
What is on record, and how firmly
Beverly Hills area, California
Family home toured in Bravo’s Season 4 gallery, 2013. No price reported.
Boca Raton, Florida
Claimed late-2021 purchase from a fan map site, with no press or deed record found.
$8M (claimed)
Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico
Mountainside upbringing with cows, chickens and dogs.
The Joyce Giraud House Bravo Toured in 2013
When Joyce joined the Season 4 cast in the fall of 2013, Bravo ran a 25-photo gallery of the Ohovens’ home plus a separate set on her closet. The gallery gives no address, but its captions place the house in Beverly Hills, joking about “those Beverly Hills nights” and “a long day in Beverly Hills.”
The decor leaned formal and old-world rather than the white modern style common on the show:
- Entry: a golden lion door knocker and a large chandelier over the foyer.
- Dining room: gold-trimmed walls, gold chairs, a shimmering chandelier and stained-glass windows, which Bravo compared to The Great Gatsby.
- Living areas: a fireplace lounge used for watching TV, and a formal living room with maroon drapes, dark mahogany wood and plants.
- Kitchen: exposed wooden ceiling beams and another stained-glass window.
- Other rooms: a library lined with bookshelves, a window seat, a display of memorabilia and a jacuzzi.
- Backyard: open lawn and play equipment for the kids, plus a separate lounge area with chairs in sun and shade.
The closet tour showed rows of neatly arranged shoes and accessories, from neutral everyday pairs to reptile-skin stilettos, with stained-glass accents carried over from the rest of the house. The couple married in 2009 and had two sons, born in 2010 and 2011, which explains the play setup out back.
Bravo’s gallery is undated on the page, and nothing published since says whether the family still owns or rents that house. Joyce left the show after the Season 4 reunion in 2014, so there has been no televised update.
For another Beverly Hills home with a link to the franchise, see the Beverly Hills estate of Paris Hilton, whose mother Kathy Hilton later joined the same show.
The $8 Million Boca Raton Claim
Unconfirmed figure
The “$8M in late 2021” Boca Raton purchase comes from one celebrity map page that says it is not affiliated with the people or the property. No real estate outlet has reported it.
The page lists Joyce and Michael as owners of a Boca Raton house and says they paid $8 million for it in late 2021. The same page sits under a URL naming a different person, and it gives no listing details, seller name or sale documentation.
It is possible the family did move east; Joyce lived in Miami before heading to Los Angeles early in her career. But until a deed record or a news report backs it up, the $8 million number is a claim, not a confirmed purchase price.
Growing Up in the Hills of Aguas Buenas
Before the pageant titles, Joyce Marie Giraud Mojica was born on April 4, 1975, in Aguas Buenas, a small mountain town in Puerto Rico. She told Bravo in 2013 that she grew up on a mountainside, milking cows and keeping chickens, roosters and several dogs, and that her family was poor.
She went on to win Miss Universe Puerto Rico and finish as runner-up at Miss Universe 1998. In the same interview she said her mother ships Puerto Rican food to her in California, and Joyce has said she works with UNESCO on building kindergartens, a cause she links to that rural childhood.
Sources
- Bravo (2013): photo tour of the Ohovens’ house and Joyce’s closet, room details and Beverly Hills captions.
- Bravo, The Daily Dish (September 2013): mountainside childhood in Puerto Rico, pageant history, UNESCO work.
- Bravo, The Daily Dish (September 2013): marriage to producer Michael Ohoven and their two sons.
- Wikipedia (accessed October 2026): birth date and birthplace in Aguas Buenas, 2009 marriage, sons’ birth years, Miami and Los Angeles moves.
- Virtual Globetrotting (updated March 2022): source of the unverified $8M Boca Raton claim.
