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Gayle King House: Inside Her Manhattan Penthouse & Connecticut Mansion

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Sarah Paschall

Updated on April 20, 2021

Gayle King is a popular author, television personality, and journalist for CBS. She is the host of the CBS morning show This Morning as well as editor-at-large for Oprah’s magazine O, The Oprah Magazine. In the past, King has worked as a special correspondent for The Oprah Winfrey Show, co-host for Cover to Cover on NBC, and even briefly held her own self-titled syndicated talk show The Gayle King Show. When most people think of Gayle King, the topic often centers around her friendship with one of the most powerful women in America, but there’s actually a lot more to King than just being besties with Oprah Winfrey. Let us give you an inside look at Gayle King’s life, her career, and the Gayle King house photos of your dreams.

Where Does Gayle King Live?

She’s more difficult yo nail down than you’d think, but most recently Gayle King lived in a Midtown, Manhattan penthouse as well as a massive mansion in Glastonbury, Connecticut (more on that below). Keep scrolling for more on the Gayle King home!

Gayle King Apartment Manhattan (Current)

Located on East 57^th Street, on the 36^th floor of a prominent tower, Gayle King picked up this luxury penthouse for $7.1 million back in 2008. The 2,530 square foot unit features 12-foot ceilings, gorgeous walnut flooring, and a kitchen with all Viking appliances.

The penthouse boasts 3-bedrooms and 3.5-bathrooms, with a drool-worthy master suite that has not only an incredible en-suite bathroom with a spa tub and separate glass shower, but also 3 walk-in closets (two of which have windows). For outdoor entertainment, the residence also features a 750 square foot wrap-around terrace that provides an incredible view of the George Washington bridge as well as the sprawling metropolis below.

In 2011, King went on the Nate Berkus Show to show off her New York digs, most of which had influences of friend Oprah’s style throughout. Records show that Oprah was likely the buyer of the property but Gayle 100% lived there. That is, until April 2012 when it sold for $7.9M.

Gayle King House Glastonbury CT

Gayle’s mansion in Connecticut may not be quite as grandiose as Oprah’s 20,000 square foot palace in Montecito, CA, but it’s definitely nothing to scoff at. The 10,433 square foot Colonial boasts 6-bedrooms, 7-full bathrooms, and 3-half bathrooms as well as a massive reception hall, library, solarium, staff accommodations, and a 3-car garage.

Each spacious bedroom has its own en-suite bathroom and walk-in closet for visiting guests and family, but the master suite steals the show – featuring a fireplace as well as a huge dressing room and a 22×14 sitting room that’s perfect for…sitting.

Gayle purchased the residence back in 2000 for $3.6 million, and as some have reported, the same shell company listed on multiple properties of Oprah’s was also listed on this one. So, perhaps Lady O was Gayle’s landlord? Who knows, but one of them sold it in 2015 for $3.1M.

Gayle King Bio

Born in Chevy Chase, Maryland, to Peggy & Scott King, Gayle spent most of her early years living in Turkey with her parents and 3 siblings due to her father’s career in the military. Upon returning to the United States, Gayle graduated from the University of Maryland, earning her degree in sociology and psychology. Her career in broadcasting began in 1976 at the Baltimore-based news channel WJZ-TV, where she worked as a production assistant. This would also be where she would meet a young up-and-coming news anchor by the name of Oprah Winfrey. King would later train as a reporter for the CBS-affiliated WUSA-TV in Washington, D.C. and then go on relocated to Kansas City, Missouri, to work as a weekend anchor and reporter for WDAF-TV in 1981, King was given the opportunity to work as a news anchor in Hartford, Connecticut, for WFSB, a news station that she would report for over the next 18 years.

King would also be taken on as a special correspondent for the daytime syndicated talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, and in 1991 would co-host Cover to Cover with Robin Wagner. In 1997, King was given her own self-titled talk show The Gayle King Show, but the program was canceled after only 1 season because of poor ratings. The talk show was later resurrected, however, in the form of a radio series in 2006 and would briefly return to television, via OWN, in 2011 until November of the same year when King would begin acting as co-anchor for CBS This Morning. In addition to her career in television, Gayle King has also been the Editor-at-Large of O, The Oprah Magazine since 1999.

CBS This Morning

Gayle King continues to co-host CBS This Morning alongside Anthony Mason and Tony Dokoupil. She is most often remembered for openly calling out CBS after she discovered the network planned to keep sexual harassment findings within the company private and actually demanded they disclose the information to the public. Her work in television would even earn her a place in the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame in 2018.

In 2020, following the death of Kobe Bryant, King faced backlash from social media as well as rapper Snoop Dog after CBS aired an excerpt from an interview with former WNBA player Lisa Leslie, where King mentioned the sexual assault allegations brought against Bryant back in 2003. King would later state that the scene that was used was taken completely out of context, and Snoop Dog would eventually apologize for his harsh remarks.

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Does Norah O’Donnell like Gayle King?

Upon news that Norah O’Donnell was leaving CBS This Morning to host CBS Evening News, rumors almost immediately began to circulate that this was due to a beef between King and O’Donnell, but in a 2019 interview with both Norah and Gayle, the two quickly squashed the rumors of a feud and when asked by ET why the media seemed to quickly accept these rumors as true, Gayle jokingly replied “Cause we’re women, that’s why. This never happens to men.” To reassure viewers even more that the pair were still on great terms, both Gayle and Norah broke into a duet of Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney’s “Ebony and Ivory.”

Does Gayle King Wear a Wig?

For years, people have been debating if Gayle King’s hair is actually real or not. Some claims are that she wears a weave, while others state her real hair is simply straightened and styled. According to several media outlets, however, King’s trademark shoulder-length locks are actually a wig, and it seems this may actually be true – since numerous viewers have pointed out the fact that her hair sometimes appears to be slightly crooked or further back than it’s “supposed” to be…Regardless of whether her hair is real or not, one thing is for certain – this lovely lady has style and rocks that hair, natural or not!

Gayle King Oprah Sisters?

Since Gayle and bestie Oprah Winfrey have pretty much been connected at the hip since as long as most of us can remember, many have actually believed the two were blood siblings. Though they have described each other as sisters, they are not biologically related – the two met while both were working for the same network in 1974. So, while they may not be blood-related, they have had an inseparable bond that spans over the last 4 decades.

Gayle King Children

King has two children from her first marriage to William Bumpus: Her daughter, Kirby Bumpus, and her son Will Bumpus Jr. Gayle is often seen posting pictures of her adorable family via social media. She affectionally calls them “favorite daughter” and “favorite son”.

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Is Gayle King Married?

Gayle King married attorney, William Bumpus Jr., in 1982 and divorced in 1993. The main contributing factor to the divorce, according to King herself, was the fact that she caught her then-husband with another woman in 1990. She has never remarried and conties to enjoy the single life.