Rebecca Romijn House: The Calabasas Home Where She Wed Jerry O’Connell, and the Myths Around It

Rebecca Romijn lives in Calabasas, California, the hillside city in western Los Angeles County at the edge of the Santa Monica Mountains, with her husband Jerry O’Connell and their twin daughters. It is the same property where the couple married on July 14, 2007, and the one they had to evacuate during a brush fire in 2016.

What is less clear is the Rebecca Romijn house itself. No major real estate outlet has reported a purchase, a price or a floor plan, and the figures that circulate online contradict each other. Below is what can be documented, what can’t, and the other homes that often get mixed into the story.

The Calabasas Property Where She Married Jerry O’Connell

Romijn, who was born in Berkeley and later became known as Mystique in the X-Men films and as Una Chin-Riley, or Number One, on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, married O’Connell outdoors on their own land in Calabasas in the summer of 2007, according to Wikipedia and Yahoo. Their twins arrived in December 2008, and the girls grew up on the property.

The best description of the place predates the wedding. A March 2006 USA Today profile, datelined Calabasas, described the ranch house Romijn shared with O’Connell as a former 1930s brothel called the Wagon Wheel Ranch. O’Connell had planted 800 Merlot and Cabernet grapevines on the grounds, the couple talked about one day bottling “Wagon Wheel Wine,” and Romijn spent weekends in the vineyard. Behind the house sat a giant letter “D” from the old Disneyland sign that Stamos had bought, with nine more letters in storage waiting for him to collect them.

The clearest look at how the family uses the place came in June 2016, when the 516-acre Old Fire, sparked after a pickup truck hit a power pole near Old Topanga Canyon Road, forced about 5,000 people out of their homes. Yahoo reported that Romijn’s family was among them. No homes were lost, according to the same report, and Romijn later thanked the first responders on Instagram.

“Jerry used this sprinkler we got for our girls to put out hot spots all over our property.”Rebecca Romijn, Instagram, June 2016

The couple still talk about the risk. In a July 2023 interview with Entertainment Tonight, Romijn recalled “a massive fire out near our house” a few years earlier, and O’Connell summed up their area simply: “We live in fire country.” As of the latest reports, Calabasas remains their home base. Neighbors in the area have included Shanna Moakler, who sold her Calabasas home for $2.1M, and NBA guard Trae Young, who bought a $20M estate in the city.

Rebecca Romijn House Details: What Holds Up and What Doesn’t

Celebrity-home sites repeat a handful of specifics, but none cites a deed, a listing or a news report, and they disagree with each other:

• Urban Splatter and Strange Buildings both say the Calabasas house was bought in November 2000 for $1.325 million and built in 1939.
• Urban Splatter lists it at 2,062 square feet with three bedrooms; Strange Buildings says 1,270 square feet with two bedrooms.
• Celebrity Net Worth describes a 16-acre “mountaintop” property it says Stamos acquired in 2001 and Romijn kept in the divorce, and guesses it is worth about $3 million.

Those accounts can’t all be right, and they don’t even agree on the purchase year. Either date would fall during Romijn’s marriage to Stamos, not her marriage to O’Connell, which some of these pages gloss over. The 1939 build date at least fits USA Today’s description of a 1930s ranch, but until a primary source surfaces, the price, size and acreage should be read as unconfirmed.

Not to Be Confused With John Stamos’s Calabasas Mansion

Part of the confusion likely comes from a better-documented house nearby. Stamos paid about $430,000 for a vacant six-acre lot high above Malibu Canyon in the early 1990s and, working with architect Les Makowski, built a Mediterranean-style mansion there around 1992, Robb Report wrote. Fox Business reported that he lived there for nearly a decade and sold it in 2001 for $2.2 million (other reports put the figure at $2.15 million). The 8,147-square-foot house, with black and white marble, a grotto pool and an office in a former recording studio, was bought in 2020 by politician Justin Aguilera and his wife, Candace, for $3 million, and came back on the market in April 2025 at an asking price of $12.9 million.

Romijn married Stamos in September 1998, so the mansion overlapped with the early years of their marriage, but none of the reports on it mention her. After their split, Stamos bought a home off Mulholland Drive in the Beverly Hills Post Office area in May 2005 for $3.57 million, according to Variety, as cited by People.

The Chelsea House in Manhattan

Romijn has also owned a house on the East Coast. SheKnows has described an 1899 house in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood that Romijn decorated herself, and in an interview with the design site Dore she explained that she found the listing about ten years earlier. The previous owner, an artist who had lived there for some 40 years, turned visitors away for a full year before letting the couple in.

The building needed serious work. About three years into the restoration, Romijn found that the back of the house had separated from the rest by roughly an inch. She furnished it mostly with eBay finds and pieces from Housing Works, the New York nonprofit thrift store, and called herself “a preservationist of old homes.” Celebrity Net Worth claims she paid $1.95 million in 2013 and has rented the house out, but no news report confirms those figures.

The Big Bear Lake Cabins They Sold

The couple also owned a weekend retreat at Big Bear Lake in the San Bernardino Mountains, in San Bernardino County. A 2016 tour on the blog After Orange County described it as three separate log-trimmed cabins set among boulders on a private cove, with a boat dock, a small beach and a stone fireplace. The main cabin held the living space and kitchen, and the two smaller cabins held two bedrooms each.

The cabins sit on land leased from the U.S. Forest Service, so they can’t be used as a vacation rental. According to the same post, Romijn and O’Connell rarely used the compound after the twins were born, and it had already been sold by June 2016. No sale price was reported.

Sources

• USA Today via KSL (March 2006): the Wagon Wheel Ranch history, the vineyard and the Disneyland sign letter.
• Yahoo Entertainment (June 2016): Old Fire evacuation, Romijn’s Instagram quote, wedding on the Calabasas property.
• Wikipedia: birthplace, marriage and divorce dates, twins’ birth, roles.
• Entertainment Tonight (July 2023): the couple’s comments about fires near their house.
• Fox Business (April 2025): John Stamos’s former Calabasas mansion, its 2020 buyers and the $12.9M listing.
• Robb Report via AOL (2025): the $430,000 lot, architect Les Makowski and the 2001 sale.
• Dore (2020): Romijn on restoring and furnishing her Chelsea house.
• After Orange County (June 2016): the former Big Bear Lake cabins.