Lavish Lakefront Estate
Is Home to Music Producer

What: Five bedrooms, nine full bathrooms in 34,000 square feet on 3.6 acres

Where: Minnetrista, Minn., about 25 miles west of Minneapolis

Amenities: 12-car garage, dual private offices, indoor and outdoor pools, sauna and terrace, 16-seat theater room, two caretaker's apartments

Asking Price: $8.9 million

Opening Bid*: $8.5 million

Listing Agents: Meredith Howell and Ryan Burnet, Coldwell Banker Burnet, 952-476-3692

Due Diligence: Grammy-winning music producer Jimmy Jam had this two-story, contemporary house built in 1991, on property he bought two years earlier. The house sits in Lake Minnetonka, an affluent suburb of Minneapolis, and includes about 360 feet of lake frontage, one of the largest in the area, its listing agent says. A master-bedroom suite comes with dual dressing rooms and lake views. The owner, born James Harris, declined to say how much he paid for the land or the house but says he and his wife, Lisa, recently spent about $1.5 million updating exterior finishes, adding windows and replacing parts of the roof. The couple recently bought property in the Los Angeles area, where Mr. Harris and his music-producing partner, Terry Lewis, plan to work. (The duo has produced albums for Mariah Carey, Usher and Janet Jackson.)

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