Celebrity | JK Rowling JK Rowling Gets OK to Raze $1.6M Home ...so she can make the garden of her $3.3M house larger By Evann Gastaldo Posted Jun 9, 2011 12:18 PM CDT Copied In this Feb. 3, 2009 file photo, British writer JK Rowling poses during a ceremony at the Elysee Palace in Paris. (AP Photo/Benoit Tessier, pool) So, this is how rich JK Rowling is: The Harry Potter author bought the $1.6 million house next door to her $3.3 million mansion … for the sole purpose of demolishing it … in order to make her garden bigger. Rowling, who the Telegraph notes is worth upward of $867 million, just received planning permission from council officials to tear down the house. To be fair, she’s also building a stone hut-style summer house on the property. Click for nine of the most ridiculous celebrity mansions ever. Read These Next SCOTUS sounds skeptical about law banning gay conversion therapy. You might want to take mass transit instead of driving in this city. Apprehensions at the US-Mexico border have fallen dramatically. Attorney General Pam Bondi tangles with Senate Democrats. Report an error