Eazy-E’s Former Calabasas Home: The Story of the “Playhouse”

Eazy-E image courtesy Wikipedia/Edward Paul Reyes. Listing images courtesy Keller Williams

Property Quick Facts

Location: Mountain View Estates, Calabasas, California

Built: 1990

2016 listing: Five bedrooms, approximately 5.5 bathrooms and 6,250 square feet

Lot: Approximately 0.36 acre

Eazy-E purchase: $1.175 million in January 1991

1995 foreclosure: $810,000

2016 asking price: $2.55 million

Listing status: Historical 2016 offering; current ownership and occupancy are not reviewed here

Identification note: This blog identified the property as the likeliest location associated with “Eazy’s Playhouse,” but the nickname has been applied inconsistently in other coverage.

Last updated: August 2026

Eazy-E’s former Calabasas home sits in the guard-gated Mountain View Estates community and was purchased by the rapper in 1991, during N.W.A’s rise. The property later became associated with the name “Eazy’s Playhouse,” although surviving reports do not establish that identification with complete certainty.

Eazy-E’s Calabasas Connection

Eric “Eazy-E” Wright co-founded Ruthless Records and became one of the defining members of N.W.A., inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2016. Property records reviewed for the original version of this article showed that he bought this Mountain View Estates residence in January 1991 for $1.175 million.

The purchase also placed him near people connected to the same music circle. Former N.W.A manager Jerry Heller owned a home nearby, and Dr. Dre acquired another property in the community during the same period. That concentration of owners makes the neighborhood an unusual piece of West Coast hip-hop history.

Was This Really “Eazy’s Playhouse”?

The honest answer is that the surviving evidence is suggestive rather than conclusive. This blog’s earlier investigation into Eazy-E’s Calabasas properties identified this 1990-built house as the likeliest Playhouse location because Eazy-E purchased it during his lifetime and it stood close to Heller’s residence.

Some later entertainment coverage used the same nickname for a different Calabasas house acquired by Eazy-E’s widow years after his 1995 death. Because that second residence had not yet been built while Eazy-E was alive, the attribution is disputed. Until stronger documentation surfaces, “Playhouse” is best treated as a well-known association rather than a definitively proven name for this particular address.

Inside the 2016 Listing

When the residence returned to the market in March 2016 for $2.55 million, the listing described a five-bedroom home with approximately 5.5 bathrooms and 6,250 square feet. Features included a two-story entrance, marble and hardwood floors, a large kitchen, an entertainer’s bar, fireplaces and an upstairs primary suite with a canyon-view deck.

The roughly 0.36-acre grounds included a swimming pool, spa, waterfall, fire pit, barbecue area and outdoor bar. The photographs below document how the property appeared during that listing.

Property Timeline

• 1991: Eazy-E purchased the residence for $1.175 million.
• 1995: The property went through foreclosure nine months after his death, according to the records reviewed for the original article.
• 1996–2007: The house changed ownership several times.
• 2007: It sold for $2.29 million.
• 2016: The property was offered for sale at $2.55 million.
• Current context: This page documents the historical 2016 offering and does not report current ownership or occupancy.

Explore West Coast Hip-Hop History

• Eazy-E’s Calabasas Homes: Finding the Real “Eazy’s Playhouse”
• West Coast Hip-Hop’s Connections to the San Fernando Valley
• Dr. Dre’s Former Homes in the San Fernando Valley and Beyond
• Ice Cube’s Homes in the San Fernando Valley and Beyond
• Suge Knight’s Former Homes in the San Fernando Valley and Beyond
• Tupac Shakur’s Former Woodland Hills Rental

Frequently Asked Questions

Was this Eazy-E’s Calabasas home?

Property records reviewed for the article showed that Eazy-E purchased the Mountain View Estates residence in January 1991. The 2016 listing documented the same property after it had changed ownership several times.

Was the house definitely “Eazy’s Playhouse”?

The evidence strongly associates this property with Eazy-E, but surviving documentation does not conclusively prove that the nickname always referred to this exact house. It remains the best-supported candidate identified in the blog’s research.

Is the house still for sale?

This article preserves a March 2016 listing with a $2.55 million asking price. It is not an active real-estate advertisement, and the property’s current ownership or availability is not reported here.

Why was another Calabasas mansion called Eazy’s Playhouse?

Entertainment coverage applied the nickname to a house purchased by Eazy-E’s widow in 2005. Because that mansion was built ten years after Eazy-E died, it could not have been his original playhouse.

2016 Listing Photos