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| clarice | Apr 16 2011, 01:57 PM Post #1 |
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http://realestate.aol.com/blog/2011/04/15/jodie-foster-lists-beverly-hills-home-for-10m/ Jodie Foster Lists Beverly Hills Home for $10M Gallery: See Inside Jodie Foster's Beverly Hills Home For Sale Jodie Foster just listed for $9.975 million her gorgeous, but quaint Beverly Hills, Calif., home. Don't listen to those bloggers here and there who are calling this 7-bedroom, 8-bath home a teardown or a fixer-upper just because the listing description says, "Build your dream estate on this lush park like setting." See the interior photos in our gallery and decide for yourself. From the brick-paved entry way through to the custom built-ins in almost every room and out the three-story arched wall of windows, this 1949-built ivy-covered home has obviously been remodeled and should not be torn down. However, the floral cloth covering on the ceiling of the laundry room is the one obvious flaw and probably should be stripped. The Academy Award-winner paid $8.1 million in 2005 for the Cape Cod-style ranch that she bought from famed plastic surgeon Norman Leaf (and his wife Judith) who wrote True Tales of Plastic Surgery From Beverly Hills. We don't know whether it was this Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane star or the doctor who gave the home its facelift, but the Real Estalker reported that one of Your Mama's informants snitched that Foster was engaged in a remodel years ago. The brick-paved patio has an outdoor kitchen overlooking the pool, while the main kitchen is L-shaped. An open family room, or great room, with pitched ceiling has an intricately carved fireplace with built-in shelving, while the large living room has a stone fireplace. The library/media room, with wet bar, is wood-paneled from floor-to-ceiling in a very upscale, elegant fashion. There is a mirrored exercise room, a glass-enclosed shower in a marble-floored bath, and windows, windows, windows everywhere, including skylights. The home is listed by Hilton & Hyland. ![]() At 5,484 square feet and the generous size of each room in the home, it's hard to believe that there are 7 bedrooms in this place, so presumably there is a 2-bedroom guest house somewhere on the 1-acre lot. The 48-year-old Foster has owned this home ever since July 2005 when her youngest son was a preschooler and her oldest was a first-grader. The boys, Kit and Charles, are now ages 9 and 12, respectively, and their touch is seen on the blue and red drawer knobs of a built-in dresser in one of the bedrooms. Although the Yale honors graduate never really knew her own dad, a wealthy real estate broker, because her parents divorced before she was born, her sons were being raised with two parents in the home until Foster split in 2008 from her 14-year relationship with Cydney Bernard, who was mostly a stay-at-home mom to the children Foster gave birth to. "When I had my kids, I was burnt out on the film business again and wondering if this new identity as a parent was going to be fulfilling enough," she told Parade magazine in 2008. "I was forced to ask these really hard questions about myself: Is being a mother everything? Are you supposed to lose yourself in the process of being a mother? Now, of course, I am starting to see and understand how valuable it is for me to have an adult life apart from them." Foster began acting at the age of three and one of her first gigs was as a diaper-clad toddler in a Coppertone commercial. Her breakout role was as a preteen prostitute in the 1976 film Taxi Driver opposite Robert DeNiro. In 1989 she won an Academy Award for Best Actress in her role as rape survivor in The Accused. In 1991, she starred in The Silence of the Lambs as FBI agent Clarice Starling, hunting for a serial killer played by Anthony Hopkins. "I'm drawn to films about people who live these lonely, heroic journeys," she told Parade. She also stars in an directs the upcoming The Beaver, co-starring Mel Gibson about a man with a prescription hand-puppet. Since it was widely reported at the time of her split from her long-time relationship that it was Foster who moved out and Bernard kept the house, it would seem that it is Bernard who has chosen to move on to a new abode now. The photos show that the house sits furniture-less. Foster owns another five-bedroom Beverly Hills home above Sunset Strip that she purchased in 1995 from former model Cheryl Tiegs, reported the Real Estalker. "People ask me if I missed anything by not having a normal childhood. The truth is, if I'd been an ambassador's daughter or grown up on a farm in Missouri, I wouldn't have had a normal childhood either. I had the only childhood I knew."
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| Andreas | Apr 16 2011, 03:26 PM Post #2 |
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What a beautiful property (the garden is dreamy! )
So does that mean Cydney is the one selling?? |
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| silverline | Apr 16 2011, 04:20 PM Post #3 |
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I read somewhere Cydney moved out at the time. |
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| ohman | Apr 16 2011, 07:54 PM Post #4 |
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It looks like never have been used
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| Gogo | Apr 16 2011, 08:06 PM Post #5 |
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They kept saying it was Jodie moving out. However, Jodie in an interview, around that time, said that she had just finished remodeling another house they were moving into. Something about the boys needing a bigger place. I think it's just the first home they all had and now that they've moved; sell. |
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| ohman | Apr 17 2011, 10:02 AM Post #6 |
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And where do the live now all together? Somewhere in the neighborhood? I wonder how JF furnishes her house, what style. Didn't it go around, that the loves antiques and art and that she imported antique wall tiles and fayence from Italy? Does anybody know more? Spend a nice sunday all you guys
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| clarice | Apr 17 2011, 10:19 AM Post #7 |
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While watching the gallery I was thinking, "can you imagine living in a house like this? "Can someone spare me ten millions? |
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| Andreas | Apr 17 2011, 12:19 PM Post #8 |
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Gee, what do they need, a kingdom?
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| silverline | Apr 17 2011, 12:35 PM Post #9 |
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I read that j and c didnt employ neither maids nor nannies. Who was going to clean that big palace? I mean every single room needs to be dusted etc at some point. |
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| ohman | Apr 17 2011, 01:22 PM Post #10 |
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Yes, that's what I thought too
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| ohman | Apr 17 2011, 01:30 PM Post #11 |
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yeah, I agree and asked myself as well! Can you imagine C scrubbing the kitchen or even J as a housewife with a duster?? I don't!! I myself even struggle alone with 80sqm without garden
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| silverline | Apr 17 2011, 09:08 PM Post #12 |
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they probably employed a company of 10 cleaners who would spend the whole day once a month, vacuuming and dusting. I wouldn't mind...
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| Artful_Dodger | Apr 17 2011, 09:52 PM Post #13 |
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If I knew JF was my boss, I wouldn't mind either. |
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| Gogo | Apr 18 2011, 08:11 PM Post #14 |
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Reports were that she bought a bigger house around the same place. I don't know, maybe you should ask that guy in IJ |
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| Gogo | Apr 18 2011, 08:13 PM Post #15 |
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That's a good point. Child labor. at least that is how I would do it.
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| Andreas | Apr 20 2011, 03:46 PM Post #16 |
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I can totally picture that
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