Adele’s manager Jonathan Dickins buys a £9.3million mansion next door to the singer’s Beverly Hills home

She has been based in LA for a decade — and recently bought her third mansion in the city. And, finally, Adele’s British manager Jonathan Dickins has opted to put down some roots close to the megastar who has made him a fortune.

Just as Adele completes her residency in Las Vegas, reportedly netting £12 million for three months’ work, Dickins has splashed out £9.3 million on a spectacular house in Beverly Hills, complete with an infinity pool and stunning views over Coldwater Canyon. A perfect place to watch the sun set, or should that be the Skyfall?

It can also be revealed that Dickins, 50, is sitting on a fortune with his company, September Management Limited.

On Christmas Eve last year it filed accounts declaring net assets of £26.4 million — a rise of £3.5 million from the previous year.

The super-wealthy lifestyle both singer and manager are enjoying is a far cry from their humble start.

Finally, Adele’s British manager Jonathan Dickins (right) has opted to put down some roots close to the megastar who has made him a fortune

She has been based in LA for a decade — and recently bought her third mansion in the city. Pictured: Adele’s mansion in Beverely Hills, California

Dickins met Adele outside a petrol station in 2006, after seeing her singing on social media.

She was then just 18 and on the point of signing with XL Recordings. Dickins recalled: ‘At the time I worked quite a lot with XL, and I worked with a couple of artists before Adele — MIA and Jack Penate.

‘The guy that signed both of them to XL, Nick Huggett, was going away on holiday and said, ‘You should check this girl out.’

‘At the time, the social media [platform] of choice was MySpace; you had a player that could hold I think three songs, and on Adele’s was Hometown Glory, Daydreamer and My Same and that was it. I heard these three songs, and then we met.

‘At the time, my office was in a bedroom in my house. I was just blagging it on my own. I met her outside a petrol station, then she came to my house and we had a cup of tea and we talked. It was really straightforward. She said: ‘I want you to manage me.’ I don’t think she’d met any other managers and it was really simple.’

The pair appeared tense when they were spotted together at the Brit Awards in 2022, right after Adele had scrapped her Caesars Palace residency at the eleventh hour.

There was speculation that Dickins might lose his job in the fallout — although pulling the plug had been Adele’s decision, as she wasn’t happy with the show and the staging of it.

Some even said the singer might choose to be managed by her boyfriend Rich Paul, who looks after a host of sports stars.

However, the dates were eventually rescheduled and her residency deemed such a triumph she will be returning to play a further run later this year.

Meanwhile she has stuck with Dickins. And now he’s got an LA pad a stone’s throw from the £46 million home she bought last year. (Lest you worry, he also has houses in London, New York and The Hamptons.)

Dickins tends to steer clear of the spotlight but has remarked that the secret of Adele’s success is that she is fully at home in her creative skin, and always knows her mind.

His influence has been deep. He introduced her to Eg White, who co-wrote Chasing Pavements, and convinced her to cover the Bob Dylan track Make You Feel My Love.

He advises Adele on strategy and often reiterates the need to make media campaigns all about her voice, saying the music business is a simple one which is often needlessly complicated.

Dickins’s grandfather Percy co-founded the British music magazine NME and also invented the pop music charts in 1952. His uncle Rob was the chairman of Warner Bros in the UK for 15 years. And his sister Lucy is Adele’s booking agent.