“I think I would have been an architect if I hadn’t gone into entertainment.” His studios are built on the grounds of Fort McPherson, a former military base that served the Confederate Army, a fact of no small significance to Perry. “At heart, I’m a frustrated builder,” Perry told AD during a tour of the space. Six years later, Perry purchased a 330-acre lot on which to manifest his biggest endeavor yet: Tyler Perry Studios. The fake White House at Tyler Perry Studios. Perry tried to offload the home for $13.25 million in 2010 to no avail, but he finally sold it for $11.25 million three years later.

The prolific producer paid $9.6 million for the home, which featured four bedrooms and six bathrooms, a sauna, a glass-floor catwalk that serves as the ceiling of the wine cellar, a billiard room with a window looking directly into the swimming pool, a nightclub with a bar and a disco ball, and a three-car garage. Perry went with a different aesthetic for his next purchase, an ultramodern, 9,725-square-foot contemporary behemoth, designed by SPF: architects and located in the Bird Streets area of Hollywood Hills. That firepit I built and spent all that money for, you go right ahead, it’s all yours. “I’m gonna stay over here and if you want the backyard, that’s fine. “You were here first, I’m not gonna bother you,” he recalled jokingly telling the bear. Perry has shared stunning sunset photos from his back deck there, and in a 2019 interview with Ellen DeGeneres, he shared that he’d encountered a grizzly bear in his backyard, as well as a moose. Also in 2005, the Diary of a Mad Black Woman star purchased land in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where he began to build a log cabin as a vacation home.

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