Is Ellen’s Cotswolds nightmare over? TV star and wife Portia De Rossi ditch waterlogged £15m dream home and move to stunning mansion round the corner

Ellen DeGeneres has written off hundreds of thousands of pounds with a dramatic decision to quit her £15 million dream home in the Cotswolds – and move to an alternative luxury mansion around the corner.

The former talk show superstar is understood to have given up on the mansion she shared with partner Portia De Rossi, 52, following a series of disasters including epic flooding, MailOnline can reveal.

DeGeneres and her wife bought their 43-acre property last year in the hope that it would be the perfect place to escape the ‘perils’ of Donald Trump’s America.

But the couple have now moved to the safety of higher ground in a spectacular new property which is perched on a hilltop on the edge of a village in Oxfordshire.

It is around a 30 minute drive from their original home and planning documents show it has a ‘sustainable drainage system’ and is not ‘at risk of flooding’.

The couple have recently posted pictures taken around their new home which they are believed to have bought for around £15 million – but there could be issues with their new home too if they haven’t been briefed on the property’s grisly past.

A Cotswolds property expert told us: ‘The house is a real Grand Designs number – and it’s plain that Ellen and Portia are loving it.

Ellen DeGeneres has given up on the £15million mansion she shared with partner Portia De Rossi following a series of disasters including epic flooding for an alternative luxury mansion around the corner (pictured)

The couple have now moved to the safety of higher ground in a spectacular new property which is perched on a hilltop on the edge of a village in Oxfordshire

 It is around a 30 minute drive from their original home and planning documents show it has a ‘sustainable drainage system’ and is not ‘at risk of flooding’

But their stylish new mansion has a dark past – it was built near the site of an old farmhouse where a man was murdered

 DeGeneres and her wife bought their first 43-acre property last year to try escape the ‘perils’ of Donald Trump ’s America

‘Everything has been done very discreetly so it’s not clear what the terms of the deal was but it seems that it has recently changed hands for not much less than they paid for their previous place.

‘To buy two properties for eight figure sums in the space of a few months really is unusual, even given the many multi-millionaires around here.

’And at even a conservative estimate it must have cost Ellen hundreds of thousands of pounds in fees and costs to change her mind so dramatically – perhaps millions.’