The artist formerly known as Kanye West is unloading multiple properties from his real estate holdings, amid growing reports of financial troubles . One of those is the Bighorn Mountain Ranch in Greybull, Wyoming, which is reverting to its previous owners for $14 million, according to the Wyoming publication Cowboy State Daily. The record of the sale was reportedly notarised in Zurich last month by West’s wife, Bianca Censori, acting on his behalf.
Built in 1906 and surrounded by national forest, the estate includes amenities like walk-in saunas, heated helicopter pads, and several lodges – including a five-bedroom, four-bathroom cabin. Kanye West purchased the ranch in 2019, with plans to base some of his business and religious initiatives there, including his Sunday services. He described the 6,713-acre property as his ‘therapy ranch’, saying he found solace on its grounds during his divorce from Kim Kardashian, and has said the ranch was where he worked on his 2021 album, Donda.
The Graduation hitmaker purchased the sprawling estate from Wyoming’s Flitner family a few months after he snapped up another Wyoming ranch: a 3,885-acre property called the Monster Lake Ranch in Cody. For Monster Lake, West consulted with architect Claudio Silverstein and light artist James Turrell to build a self-sustaining creative hub he referred to as the ‘Yeezy Campus’ – an affordable ‘Yecosystem’ living quarters intended for the homeless. He had hoped to combine the two properties into a mega-ranch from which he would manufacture shoes for his now-defunct clothing label Yeezy.
After Kardashian filed for divorce in 2021, the ex-couple listed Monster Lake Ranch, along with several other properties Ye had bought in the area for his business plans. He then listed and delisted Bighorn Monster Ranch over the next several years. There were reports of the rapper neglecting the property, but West allegedly ‘did not knock down any of the buildings’, owner Pam Flitner told the Cowboy State Daily. ‘They may need a little TLC, but they’re all solid.’
This story was originally published on architecturaldigest.com
