Glenn Close Is The Latest Celeb Moving To Star-Filled Bozeman, Montana. Could It Be The New LA?
At 77, screen legend Glenn Close is in demand from Hollywood more than ever. Last year, she starred in Netflix’s “Deliverance,” Now she’s on the streaming giant’s “Back In Action,” with Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz. However, Close finds solace far from LA, in Bozeman, Montana.
Although Close moved to Montana full-time in 2019, she’s owned real estate there since the 1980s, long before the area became a bolt-hole for fellow Hollywood celebs looking for an escape from the glare of tinseltown. As she explained in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Close has a deep-rooted connection to the place.
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“Today my home is in Bozeman,” she revealed. “All of my siblings live here. My modest 1892 house has a porch where I can see the mountains and say hi to neighbors.”
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Close is also building a new property. “I’m building a larger house about a half-hour outside of town,” she shared. “It’s going to be my Zen farmhouse and our family sanctuary. In back will be a stone cottage, reminding me of the best years of my childhood.”
According to realtor.com, Close purchased her three-bedroom, three-bathroom abode via a trust in 2016 for an undisclosed sum. In a 2021 interview with Mountain Outlaw, she explained that she bought the dwelling to be closer to her sisters, Jessie, who lives next door and Tina, who lives nearby. Her brother Alex also has a home in the area. At one point, Glenn and sister Jessie even owned a coffee shop together in town.
“When I was little, I got solace in nature and that has never changed,” Close said. “I always tried to create that same potential for my family, especially now to come back here and be with my siblings and have a piece of land outside of town that will always be here for my daughter and her children. That’s my legacy.”
Close’s daughter, Annie Starke, debuted her cooking show, Magnolia Network’s “The Mountain Kitchen,” filmed on her mother’s Bozeman ranch.
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Bozeman has greatly changed since Close and her siblings moved there. According to the Daily Mail, house prices have doubled in six years and some locals are even calling it Boz Angeles, due to the number of celebrities who have recently purchased second homes there.
Although fellow veteran actor Michael Keaton has been a long-term resident of the area, owning a 1,000-acre property in the tiny town of Big Timber since the early ’90s, newer residents include Justin Timberlake and his wife, Jessica Biel, in the gated community of Big Sky with their two children. Kelly Clarkson also purchased a $10.4 million ranch in 2018 with her then-husband, Brandon Blackstock. John Mayer has had his place in Paradise Valley (which inspired his 2013 album of the same name) for over a decade.
The ultraexclusive Yellowstone Club is an hour outside Bozeman, spread across 15,200 acres, known for privacy and luxury amenities. Members include Bill Gates, former U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle, Tom Brady, Paris Hilton and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
The net result of so much star power is that in the last six years, home prices in Bozeman have nearly doubled, with the median listing price for a single-family home now about $850,000 and the median sold price $676,300, according to realtor.com.
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Not that affordability is likely to bother Glenn Close. According to Celebrity Net Worth, the celebrated actor, who hails from a wealthy family, is worth $50 million. She was born in Greenwich, Connecticut and her grandfather Edward was married to Marjorie Merriweather Post, the heiress to the Post cereal fortune and, at one point, according to Celebrity Net Worth, the richest woman in America. Her father, William Close, was a doctor who served as the personal physician to Mobutu Sese Seko, the dictator of the Belgian Congo.
Close has a diverse real estate portfolio – owning homes in Florida and, according to Parade.com, a 1,000-acre family ranch in Wyoming. In 2011, she sold an apartment in The Beresford Building. The residence, part of the Central Park West Historic District, sold for over $10 million.
Close’s most lucrative stream of income, though, is from her acting. According to Parade, as an executive producer on 101 Dalmatians, in which she played the iconically evil Cruella DeVille, Close also got paid for the prequel Cruella, with Emma Stone taking over the role.
TV has also recently been a great source of income. Close earned $200,000 per episode on Damages, which ran for five seasons. She won an Emmy for her starring role. In total, she appeared in 59 episodes, earning around $12 million.
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Carroll College tight end Carson Ochoa caught five passes for 125 yards and three touchdowns in the Saints’ 31-21 NAIA Football Championship Series Round of 16 loss to Montana Tech Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025, inside Alumni Coliseum.
Carroll College safety Braeden Orlandi breaks up a pass intended for Montana Tech wide-out Levi Torgerson Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025, during the Orediggers’ 31-21 NAIA Football Championship Series Round of 16 victory over the Saints.
Montana Tech wide-out Levi Torgerson totaled 124 yards receiving, caught two touchdowns, and tossed a 21-yard score to Orediggers QB Jarrett Wilson in Tech’s 31-21 NAIA Football Championship Series Round of 16 victory over Carroll College Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025, inside Alumni Coliseum. Torgerson was selected game offensive MVP.
Montana Tech QB Jarrett Wilson completed 11 of 16 passes for 197 yards and two touchdowns Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025, in the Orediggers’ 31-21 NAIA Football Championship Series Round of 16 victory over Carroll College. Wilson carried the football 15 times for 94 yards. He also caught a 21-yard touchdown.
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Montana Tech wide-out Levi Torgerson totaled 124 yards receiving, caught two touchdowns, and tossed a 21-yard score to Orediggers QB Jarrett Wilson in Tech’s 31-21 NAIA Football Championship Series Round of 16 victory over Carroll College Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025, inside Alumni Coliseum. Torgerson was selected game offensive MVP.
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Montana Tech QB Jarrett Wilson completed 11 of 16 passes for 197 yards and two touchdowns Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025, in the Orediggers’ 31-21 NAIA Football Championship Series Round of 16 victory over Carroll College. Wilson carried the football 15 times for 94 yards. He also caught a 21-yard touchdown.
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Montana Tech QB Jarrett Wilson completed 11 of 16 passes for 197 yards and two touchdowns Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025, in the Orediggers’ 31-21 NAIA Football Championship Series Round of 16 victory over Carroll College. Wilson carried the football 15 times for 94 yards. He also caught a 21-yard touchdown.
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Carroll College safety Braeden Orlandi breaks up a pass intended for Montana Tech wide-out Levi Torgerson Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025, during the Orediggers’ 31-21 NAIA Football Championship Series Round of 16 victory over the Saints.
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Carroll College kicker Kai Golan recovered an on-side kick in the third quarter of the Saints’ 31-21 NAIA Football Championship Series Round of 16 loss to Montana Tech Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025, inside Alumni Coliseum. Golan’s recovery led to a Saints touchdown that pulled Carroll within three points.
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Montana Tech head football coach Kyle Samson celebrates the Orediggers’ 31-21 NAIA Football Championship Series Round of 16 victory over Carroll College Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025, inside Alumni Coliseum.
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Carroll College tight end Carson Ochoa caught five passes for 125 yards and three touchdowns in the Saints’ 31-21 NAIA Football Championship Series Round of 16 loss to Montana Tech Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025, inside Alumni Coliseum.
Americans for Prosperity (AFP), a libertarian special interest group, would have you think so. And it is sending out postcards and online ads claiming that Republicans who worked with Governor Greg Gianforte to produce a balanced budget are “pouring gasoline on the fire.”
The problem is that the “accountability information” AFP is peddling is false.
Did the state budget “explode” by $16.5 billion? NO! That number is the two-year appropriation in the General Appropriations Act (HB 2). It is not how much the budget increased. The actual increase in the total state budget was $142 million over two years—a tiny fraction of the amount claimed by AFP—according to the official budget comparison as calculated per state law (17-7-151, MCA) and validated by analysts at the legislature’s nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Division. Was there a 13.5% increase in state spending? NO! AFP’s number comes from considering only part of the state budget. The total state budget grew by only 0.7%, according to the official budget comparison cited above.
Did the budget grow at “2x the rate of inflation and 7x the pace of population growth”? NO! Budget growth was 0.7%—obviously much less than what AFP claims.
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Is Montana running “massive deficits”? NO! he state constitution requires a balanced budget, and the budget we passed is balanced. Montana does not engage in deficit spending. Furthermore, Montana is the only bond debt-free state in the nation because of legislative actions taken over the past two sessions.
Was this the “biggest budget in Montana’s history”? Yes. But that could be said about any year in at least the recent past (I looked back 10 years). Why is that? A big reason is that inflation drives up the cost of providing the services that most Montanans expect, e.g., law enforcement, a corrections system, mental health and drug treatment, an education system, and management of our public lands, to name only a few. Good government is about providing those services as cost effectively as possible. Governor Gianforte and his allies in the legislature have been doing just that.
Americans for Prosperity might be forgiven if they simply misunderstood a thing or two about state finance. But AFP got so much wrong that one can only conclude that it willfully distorted the truth in order to mislead Montana citizens. Where I come from in Montana that’s called lying.
David Bedey is a Republican state Representative from Hamilton.
As ski season approaches and temps drop, Showdown Montana is once again turning the opening month into a chance to help the community while saving big.
Skiers can reduce the cost of a $70 lift ticket to $20 merely by contributing canned goods.
Katie Boedecker, President and General Manager of Showdown Montana, stated that the endeavor represents the company’s long-standing commitment to supporting local families.
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Showdown Montana offers discounts in exchange for canned food donations
“It’s just a hard time of year for families and for people that need help. And we want to do everything we can to support this,” she explained. “We’ve been doing a food drive for at least 35 years up here.”
This year, the program is expanding. Rather than transporting donations up the mountain, visitors can now drop off 20 canned food items at participating food banks in Great Falls, Helena, Billings, Bozeman, and White Sulphur Springs.
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In exchange, they will receive a certificate for a $20 lift ticket valid on any operational day in December.
“If you bring 20 cans of food to those food banks, you will get a voucher for a $20 lift ticket,” explained Avery Patrick, Showdown’s vice president and marketing director.
The new system also reduces the pressure on food banks. In earlier years, personnel had to drive trucks up the mountain to collect donations, which was a logistical nightmare during the winter. Donors can now go directly to the source.
Shaun Tatarka of the Great Falls Community Food Bank explained that bringing food to the food bank will result in a lift ticket. “There’s a limit of only ten per person.”
Donors may exchange up to 120 cans for reduced tickets while supplies last. The food bank is especially in need of cereal, canned chili, soups, and canned fruit, which help households get through the colder months.
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“People really enjoy giving at this time of year,” Tatarka said. “We really rely on November and December for about 50 to 60% of our income and donations.”
Showdown plans to start on December 5, but vouchers can already be picked up during regular food bank hours.
Showdown Montana’s official opening date is December 12, though they may open on December 5 depending on conditions.
Showdown is about 65 miles southeast of Great Falls; click here to visit the website.
