This suburban New York mansion is match for royalty.
Former Miss America Vanessa Williams lives in an 11,603-square-foot $1.75 million Chappaqua house, which can be featured on MTV’s “Cribs” on Dec. 13.
The 4.45-acre Westchester County unfold is so sprawling, the singer and actress makes use of a golf cart to retrieve her mail.
A spotlight of the six-bedroom, five-bath abode is an workplace full of memorabilia from the 60-year-old star’s adorned profession.
It consists of gold and platinum data, and “my authentic Corn Flakes field once I was Miss America 1983,” she says.
She additionally exhibits off her “presidential wall, these are the presidents I’ve met through the years,” with photographs of herself with Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Invoice Clinton, and George W. Bush.
The mother of 4 — who grew to become a grandmother in 2021 — additionally has a room devoted to rolling racks of glittering ballgowns.
“These are some I’ve worn on tv, in ‘Ugly Betty,’ ‘Queen of the Universe’ . . . on stage, in live shows,” she explains. “I’m gonna provide you with a present, it doesn’t matter what I put on.”
When renovating the residence — which is simply 4 miles from the place she grew up in Millwood and dates again to 1906 — Williams made positive to protect its historical past.
“These stones are the unique stone wall to the outside of a cottage that was right here … And this home might be haunted . . . it’s gotta be,” she mentioned.
The stones on the opposite facet of the home are from its authentic carriage home.
“So what we now have achieved is related the carriage home and the cottage with all the construction and that’s the place the magic begins,” she explains.
Williams additionally steps into her eating room, the place there’s a big portray of her within the witch costume she wore in Broadway’s “Into the Woods,” which earned her a Tony Award nomination.
In the course of the kitchen tour, she opens up her Sub-Zero fridge, grabs a bottle of Veuve Clicquot, and states, “One should at all times have Champagne, at all times chilled, at all times accessible for any friends that occur to come back in.”
She has 4 ovens “as a result of Thanksgiving you’ve bought a turkey in a single, mac and cheese within the different, you’ve bought your yams, you’ve bought pies and truffles,” she says.
Williams has been married to accountant and actual property agent Jim Skrip since 2015. Skrip isn’t featured within the episode, however Williams’ two Nice Danes, Gilly and Roscoe, are: They “sleep on my mattress each night time.”
The tennis court docket is the place “we had been fortunate sufficient to have our first tennis lesson by Katrina Adams, who occurs to be the primary black feminine president of the USTA — not too shabby,” she says.
The garden, she factors out, is the place her “Ugly Betty” costar and “expensive good friend” America Ferrara tied the knot in 2011.
One among her most prized possessions sits within the driveway: a blue Maserati that she purchased in 2008.
“I can keep in mind the day that it was delivered, my coronary heart was beating like loopy,” she mentioned. “I’m by no means letting it go, so that is going to my grave with me.”