The House That ‘Lost’ Built: JJ Abrams Lists His LA Mansion for $22 Million Mark David for Dirt One of Hollywood’s most prolific and powerful film and television writer/director/producers, J.J. Abrams, has floated his plush yet comfortable Pacific Palisades, Calif., home on the market with a by-any-standard prodigious price tag pushing up on $22 million. The veteran showbiz polymath and his wife, Katie McGrath, purchased the pretty bluff-top spread in early 2014 for $14.47 million, and subsequently transformed the stately mid-1990s residence into an up-to-date family home that is both relaxed and refined with ample space for both formal and casual entertaining.