By the 1980s, Rogers had won over 50 major music awards including many Grammy, American Music and Country Music awards and in 1986 was named the Favorite Singer of All Time by USA Today.
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| Ellen DeGeneres |
Always with lots of energy while singing, acting, producing and television roles, Kenny segued into buying, renovating and selling big homes with good bones in upscale neighborhoods at a good profit.
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He sold his first flip in 1984 in Beverly Hills for $20 million which was a record price at the time. Since then, most of his homes have been in the Atlanta area where he also started an interior design business, Kenji Design Studios, that catered to Atlanta’s richest home owners such as Home Depot’s co-founder Arthur Blank.
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A small sample of Kenny’s real estate work, in 2002 Rogers bought a bank-owned, 27,000-square-foot home in Atlanta that had been on the market at $12 million for just $2.75 million and sold it in 2006 for $8.5 million.
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| Tuxedo Park Mansion's Dining Room |
Just outside of Athens, Georgia, Rogers built the almost 1,000-acre Beaver Dam Farm which he later sold in 2011 for $10.5 million.
In 2009, Rogers paid $2.8 million for a home in Atlanta’s ritzy Tuxedo Park that was listed at almost $8 million. He sold it elegantly furnished in a down market in 2011 for $3.725 million. It is once again on the market along with the furnishings just the way he left it asking $4.495 million.
Rogers bought and then spent over $3 million to redesign and decorate the Tuxedo Park home when his twin sons were only four years old and needed plenty of space to play.
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| Pool side at Tuxedo Park Mansion |
(Kenny has been married five times but married to his current wife and twins’ mother since 1997).
Sited on a little over an acre, it is similar to the other large homes in the neighborhood echoing status with their elaborate architecture, pools and tennis courts.
Measuring almost 7,000 square feet, the style is Mediterranean with a meticulously landscaped gated-drive entry and grounds.
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| Entrance at Tuxedo Park Mansion |
From the large motor court, the front doors open into a dramatic foyer with soaring ceiling, curving stairs to the floor above and large enough for a grand piano perfect for greeting party guests in southern style.
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| Foyer at Tuxedo Park mansion |
Formal spaces are large and elaborate with rooms having 20-foot ceilings, gilded doorways and mirrors. For less formal entertaining the movie-game room also has a large sit-down bar area.
There is also an office surrounded by tall windows with coffered ceiling and a huge eat-in kitchen. With six ensuite bedrooms and two additional baths, plenty of room for Kenny’s large collection of music-business friends.
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| Leisure room at Tuxedo Park mansion |
The large master suite includes a romantic fireplace. Entertaining options extend to an expansive pool terrace with an enclosed play area to the side.
Tuxedo Park has been home to Atlanta’s wealthiest residents since the early 20th century when they engaged the best architects to design their elaborate summer homes outside the heat of the city.
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The neighborhood, now on the National Register of Historic Places, is home to the Georgia Governor’s Mansion and has been home to Coca Cola chairman
Robert Woodruff and golfer
Bobby Jones among other notables.
Kenny retired from entertaining in 2017 and has not done any recent home flips, but there is talk of one more studio album, so The Gambler might be back soon.
The listing agent for Kenny's elegant Tuxedo Park home is Travis Reed of Harry Norman Realtors, Atlanta, Georgia.
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