Comedian Jimmy Fallon Buys $5.7 Million Estate
From the archive, 2011. This is contemporaneous reporting, preserved as it ran. Figures, rates and forecasts in it were current then and are not now.
Talk show host and comedian Jimmy Fallon, 
whose late night TV talk show is rising in the ratings is buying a 3,500 square foot estate in the Hamptons outside of New York City, where he hosts his nightly show.
The former “Saturday Night Live” TV Weekend Update co-anchor is settling into his new digs in the late night slot well you’d have to say to buy the 6-bedroom, 5 ½ bathroom home for a reported $5.7 million. Apparently Jimmy got a sizeable contract after working for just $5,000 a show when his TV talk show was first launched.
The much admired funnyman is buying a unique piece of real estate on 2.2 acres that used to be an old horse farm. The home was originally built in the 1850s, is three stories, and has a large heated pool in the backyard, a pair of barns, an apple orchard, two separate guest cottages for friends to stay and a four car garage for plenty of parking.
Best yet the updated estate is only a short mile drive to the Atlantic Ocean, where some of the wealthiest in the north-east mingle and vacation during the summer months in the Hamptons. Guess Jimmy won’t have to wear much make-up to look tan on TV once he moves into his new place.
The estate was first listed for just under $7-million, but was reduced by the current owners twice before Fallon made his offer to buy the place.
