Justin Trudeau & Katy Perry’s Montreal Mansion — New Details Revealed

Political friends are getting nervous. That is the headline out of a fresh report this week >> [music] >> with a source close to Justin Trudeau's inner circle telling reporters plainly that people who have worked with Justin are embarrassed, adding that a man who spent a decade presenting himself as a [music] global leader is now defined by vacations, red carpets, and goofy social media moments. [music] Nobody in that circle is saying they dislike Katy Perry, the source was careful to add. What they are saying is that they wish the former prime minister [music] would tone it down. It is the latest entry in a summer that has not been short on entries. In July, Trudeau made a cameo in one of Perry's TikToks, [music] hopping in place behind her as she lip-synced to her single "Watch It Burn", arms glued to his sides while background dancers moved around him. The internet did not go easy on him. One user compared him to an 18-year-old backup dancer. [music] Another wrote that he had gone from running a G7 country to background dancer B-roll. He's such a loser, a third posted, [music] and that was one of the gentler ones. Weeks later, when the 2026 FIFA World Cup opened, Trudeau skipped Canada's own opening match in Toronto to attend the United States' opener in Los Angeles instead because Perry was performing there. Fans back home were not [music] thrilled. Trudeau addressed the criticism himself on X. Sometimes supportive boyfriend duties call, but you know who I'm rooting for to take the cup. Days later, the two were photographed [music] picnicking in Santa Barbara, unbothered, holding hands, apparently entirely at peace with being the most [music] talked about couple on the internet that week. So, new controversy, same mansion. If you watched part one of this series, you already know the broad [music] strokes. The 4.26 million Canadian dollar stone estate in Montreal's Outremont neighborhood, the ballroom, the seven [music] bedrooms, the timeline of a relationship that started with a dog walk in Mount Royal Park, [music] and somehow ended up at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Today, >> [music] >> we are going back inside because there is a lot about this house and about where this relationship has gone [music] since part one that the first video did not have room to cover. Let's start with who actually sold Justin Trudeau this house because it is a more interesting story than simply >> [music] >> he bought a mansion. The seller was Nicholas Ruggiero, head of Bâtir Part Invest's Montreal real estate division, who had purchased the property himself [music] in 2023 for 5.425 million Canadian dollars. Trudeau bought it for 4.26 million, [music] meaning the man who once oversaw the country's finances bought a home for roughly 1.16 [music] million Canadian dollars less than its previous owner had paid for it and more than 1.7 million dollars below the city of Montreal's own assessed value [music] of 5.99 million dollars for tax purposes. The deed itself is oddly domestic for a document attached to a former [music] head of government. The sale included the washer, the dryer, the garage door opener, the blinds, [music] the chandeliers, and the wall sconces, all transferred in good working condition, no legal warranty attached. >> [music] >> Annual property taxes on the estate run just under 38,000 dollars, a bill that, reports [music] noted somewhat dryly, should not trouble a man collecting an estimated 8.4 million dollars in lifetime [music] pension payments from his decade in office. Land registry filings on the transaction [music] made no mention of Perry at all. The house, on paper, belongs to Trudeau alone. The renovation crews we mentioned in part one were not a rumor. By the week after closing, a [music] contractor from a firm called Modulor was on site and a dumpster had already appeared in the driveway. Sources who observed the work described updates [music] consistent with a home being prepared for two households rather than one. The seven-bedroom count, insiders [music] maintain, was very much the point, not an incidental feature of an old Montreal estate. [music] The property's privacy architecture got attention, too. The metal perimeter fence and the mature tree line that shield the house from the street were already part of the original 1931 build, but the gated pathway on the north side and the two-car garage with its stone entry [music] stair on the south side give the estate two genuinely separate points of access. Useful, real estate observers noted, for a couple who are trying to maintain a functioning household while remaining two of the most photographed people on the planet. >> [music] >> And they have been photographed constantly. Since the mansion closed in February, Trudeau [music] and Perry have been spotted having lunch at Le Meac, a French bistro less than a mile from the new house, where Trudeau reportedly waved off photographers by telling them the two were having a private moment. While Perry, more accommodating, stopped to sign an autograph for a young fan whose mother was a long-time admirer. In late August, [music] they took the relationship overseas again, splitting a Riviera getaway between [music] Saint Tropez, where they were seen strolling Pampelonne Beach after lunch at Le Palmier, and a follow-up stop in Sardinia. [music] Photos from the French leg of the trip showed Trudeau applying sunscreen to Perry's shoulders on a yacht, the kind of image that, by this [music] point in the relationship, barely registers as news anymore. Except that it somehow always does. Perry herself addressed the relationship directly around the same time, telling an interviewer that Trudeau's support felt like a different level compared to what she had experienced in past relationships, [music] a comment widely read as a pointed contrast with her previous engagement. Not every appearance has landed well. >> [music] >> In March, a video of the couple at Davos was posted by the Female Quotient, a women's empowerment organization with more than [music] 3 million Instagram followers, framing Perry's presence at the World Economic Forum as a show of support for a panel on workplace diversity [music] that Trudeau and his former chief of staff were part of. The comments underneath were not kind. "This ain't [music] it," one follower wrote, arguing that pairing a a message with a celebrity couple appearance >> [music] >> undercut the point entirely. It was a small moment, but it captured something larger about the criticism trailing this relationship all year. Not that people specifically dislike Katy Perry, [music] and not specifically that people dislike Justin Trudeau, but that the two of them together [music] doing ordinary couple things in extraordinary settings keep reading to a certain slice of the public as exactly the kind of detached elite behavior [music] that cost Trudeau politically in the first place. Back when he was still the man running the country rather than the man dancing behind his girlfriend in a [music] TikTok. None of it appears to be slowing anything down. Insiders described the Outremont purchase back [music] in February as a house large enough for a blended family built with the explicit hope, according to one source, that Perry would eventually come to live there [music] part of the year. Not a full relocation since her career remains based in the United States, but something closer to a second home she returns to between [music] tour dates and recording sessions. That arrangement seems to be holding 7 months later. The couple has continued making [music] a point, as one insider originally put it, of seeing each other as often as [music] geography allows, crossing an ocean and half a continent through the spring and summer to do exactly that. From Davos to Tokyo to the Riviera [music] to a picnic table in Santa Barbara. What is clear this far past the original sale is that the mansion [music] has become exactly what the insiders predicted back in part one. Not a home Trudeau bought that Perry occasionally [music] visits, but a genuine shared project renovated with two households in mind, defended publicly whenever the backlash arrives, [music] and photographed constantly whether the two of them like it or not. A nearly [music] 100-year-old stone house sold to Trudeau below its assessed value by a Montreal real estate executive who had owned it for barely 2 years [music] is now the physical center of gravity for a former prime minister and a global pop star trying to figure out in full public view and against a fairly steady drumbeat of criticism what a blended life actually looks like. So, here is the question. Does the mounting backlash, the [music] Tik Tok cringe, the FIFA snub, the political friends who say they're embarrassed actually threaten this relationship or does a couple this famous simply become immune [music] to it the longer they stay together? Drop your thoughts in the comments below. >> [music] [music]