Moby: ‘I once lived in a 12-bedroom Hollywood castle – it was absurd’

Moby, 58, is an American musician who found fame in the 1990s, and has sold over 20 million records. Born Richard Melville Hall, his breakthrough hit ‘Go’ reached Number 10 in the UK Singles Chart in 1991, and he has since had 18 singles and 12 albums in the UK Top 40. His two UK Number 1 albums were ‘Play’ in 1999 – selling over 12 million copies and spending more than two years (108 weeks) in the UK Album Chart – and ‘18’ in 2002, which was Number 1 in 12 countries. Today, he lives in Los Angeles. I live right by Griffith Park in Los Angeles. It’s completely quiet and the only sound you might occasionally hear is a coyote. When I first moved to Los Angeles in 2010 I moved into this Hollywood castle [Wolf’s Lair, which he bought for $3.9m]. It was so big and over the top, a massive castle on a lot of land overlooking everything. You could see the Hollywood sign, the ocean, Griffith Park Observatory, all of Los Angeles. It was truly spectacular. I would have giant parties and fundraisers. But at some point I realised I was kind of restless there...

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