Heavy Metal Star Lists Las Vegas Castle for $28M
Posted on: August 17, 2025, 07:02h.
Last updated on: August 17, 2025, 07:04h.
Most people wouldn’t recognize Zoltan Bathory if he passed them in a grocery store. He’s not a reality TV fixture or a household name. Yet his loud heavy-metal band band, Five Finger Death Punch, has quietly amassed more than 12 billion streams and 28 Top 10 singles since 2007.
And that’s why the 47-year-old guitarist can list a replica of a 17th-century Scottish castle for sale in Las Vegas for $28M.
Located eight miles west of the Strip, the three-story, 12,720 square-foot estate features turrets, imported stonework, and medieval flourishes befitting a rock star who’s built an empire in the shadows of pop culture.
Known as Rose Manor, the home is the largest in a waterfront enclave called The Lakes, complete with five bedrooms, eight bathrooms, a saltwater pool, a four-car garage, and a double dock on man-made Lake Sahara.
Bathory first approached then-owners Paul and Gemma Zeppa in 2019, hoping to rent the property for a video shoot. When they declined, he bought it outright for $3.25 million, according to property records.
He’s asking so much more because but he’s spent the past six years remodeling it with architect Michael Murphy, one of the founding partners of the high-end Las Vegas custom home design firm Blue Heron.
He and Murphy spared no expense, importing 15th-century stone gates from Europe, 17th-century fireplace mantels, and 500-year-old beams and doors. They also opened up the interiors, whose small rooms and low ceilings were originally too much like a Victorian castle for Bathory’s taste.
Even a rooftop deck was reworked. It’s now enclosed in glass with 360-degree panoramic views and an elevator disguised as a chimney.
“There is nothing in the home that wasn’t touched other than the exterior walls and the things that are in the home,” listing agent Monica Nalbantoglu of the Rob Jensen Co. told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
The castle’s origins trace back to Larry and Lisa Miller, who commissioned architect Robert Symons to design it in 1991. The Millers reportedly spent $8.5 million building the estate, including $1.7 million on 144 custom stained-glass windows from the UK and $1.4 million on hand-carved mahogany. They sold the property in 2005 to Robert Dyson, and after a foreclosure, it landed with the Zeppas.
As for why someone would spend so much time and money building something just to give it up, it sounds like Zoltan has the house-flipping bug.
”I’m an artist,” he told the metal website Blabbermouth.net, “and through this process, I discovered that as amazing as it is to own something like this, the real thrill for me is in creating it.
“Designing and building something monumental, something that will outlast me is where the magic is.”
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