Long before Céline Dion owned her headline-making Florida compound with its own private waterpark, the superstar singer called another lavish Jupiter estate home.
That property has just changed hands.
Dion’s former residence in Jupiter’s gated Admirals Cove community sold off market for $12.5 million on October 22.
Spanning 14,749 square feet on approximately 0.65 waterfront acres, the eight-bedroom home is unusually large even by Admirals Cove standards, with grand entertaining rooms, a private theater, sprawling outdoor spaces and a private dock.
According to public records, investor Myron Miller purchased the property, with Willie Abreu of The Nicolas Group at SERHANT. representing the buyer. The seller, an LLC, was represented by Rob Thomson of Waterfront Properties.
And its connection to Dion goes considerably deeper than simply appearing somewhere in her real estate portfolio.
Céline Dion built this house from the ground up
Dion and her late husband, René Angélil, acquired the property in 1996 and had the estate custom-built, completing it in 1998.
That makes the Eagle Drive mansion a particularly personal piece of the singer’s real estate history.
Dion worked with Palm Beach builder Dan Swanson of Addison Development Group on the design, and a number of the details she selected for the home remain today.
The resulting house takes a grand Mediterranean approach, with the scale and ornamentation more commonly associated with an old-school Palm Beach mansion than a conventional Florida waterfront residence.
Nearly 15,000 square feet makes this one of Admirals Cove’s giants
At 14,749 square feet of air-conditioned living space, the residence is enormous.
It sits on approximately 0.65 acres, significantly larger than many homesites in Admirals Cove, giving the house enough room to spread out without consuming the entire property.
Eight bedrooms and 11 bathrooms are distributed throughout the estate, alongside formal entertaining rooms and more relaxed spaces designed for everyday living.
The home measures 17,761 total square feet when additional covered areas are included.
A stained-glass dome crowns the interiors
The architecture inside is considerably more decorative than the minimalist interiors dominating many new South Florida builds.
One of the home’s defining features is a domed stained-glass skylight positioned over the main living space.
Natural light filters through the colored glass into an interior filled with arches, columns, detailed moldings and expansive entertaining rooms.
It’s a distinctly different aesthetic from the white-box contemporary homes increasingly common along Florida’s waterfront.
Many of Dion’s original details remain
The house has changed owners several times since Dion left more than two decades ago, but pieces of her original vision have survived.
Among the Dion-era details are hand-painted walls, elaborate crown moldings and a mix of marble and wood flooring.
The residence also has multiple fireplaces — another unusual feature for a nearly 15,000-square-foot home in South Florida.
Those elements give the property a level of personality that would be difficult to recreate in a newly constructed mansion.
The private theater looks like an old-school cinema
For a house built by one of the best-selling singers of all time, the theater is appropriately elaborate.
The residence includes a dedicated private cinema for screenings and entertaining.
Its interiors are finished in velvet in the style of a traditional movie palace, and the theater even incorporates its own performance stage.
It is one of those amenities whose existence makes considerably more sense once the home’s original owner is known.
Grand rooms for both entertaining and lavishly retreating
The estate’s sheer footprint allows the formal spaces to take on considerable scale.
Large living and dining rooms are framed by arched architectural details, while the floor plan was designed to accommodate large groups without concentrating everyone into a single open-concept great room.
The backyard feels more like a private resort
Outside, the scale continues.
A sprawling resort-style pool anchors the backyard, surrounded by broad terraces, palm trees and multiple areas for lounging.
The landscaping provides a substantial degree of privacy from neighboring homes, while the oversized lot allows the pool area to feel separate from the residence rather than squeezed between the house and waterfront.
For a property already approaching 15,000 square feet inside, the outdoor areas still manage to hold their own.
The pool received its own multimillion-dollar overhaul
The backyard hasn’t remained frozen in the late 1990s.
Previous marketing for the property noted that the swimming pool and surrounding outdoor areas underwent a multimillion-dollar renovation.
The finished space now reads more like a contemporary resort deck, with manicured greenery and multiple gathering areas surrounding the water.
That renovation helped modernize the home’s strongest outdoor amenity without stripping away the more traditional character inside.
A private dock puts boating just beyond the pool
Beyond the backyard is another amenity central to the Admirals Cove lifestyle: private dockage.
The residence sits directly on one of the community’s waterways, allowing boats to be kept at the property rather than at a separate marina.
The dock has navigable access to the Intracoastal Waterway and ultimately the Atlantic, with no fixed bridges along the route.
That makes the waterfront practical for substantially larger boats, not simply decorative.
Admirals Cove adds golf, boating and serious privacy
The property is located inside Admirals Cove, one of Jupiter’s best-known gated waterfront communities.
Its mix of canals, private docks and large estates has long attracted high-profile homeowners and wealthy South Florida buyers looking for both boating access and a more controlled residential environment.
The community setting also explains why a house of this scale can remain relatively private despite sitting directly on navigable water.
Dion lived here during a major period in her career
The house dates to a particularly significant chapter in Dion’s life.
She and Angélil owned the property from the late 1990s through 2002, and this was their Florida home when their son René-Charles was born in 2001.
The couple wasn’t simply passing through, either.
Contemporary accounts described Dion living relatively normally within Admirals Cove, where neighborhood children reportedly trick-or-treated at the singer’s door.
She sold it for $9M more than two decades ago
Dion and Angélil sold the home in December 2002 for $9 million to NetJets founder Richard Santulli and his wife, Margaret.
The estate subsequently went through a much less glamorous stretch of its pricing history. The Santullis eventually sold the property for $5.725 million in 2017, after it had been marketed for $7 million. It changed hands again in 2021 for $7.6 million.
Now under new ownership, the marquee property that once served as Céline Dion’s first Jupiter showpiece (pre-private waterpark compound) is ready for a new chapter. One that hopefully won’t shake off its superstar flair entirely.
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