Leonardo DiCaprio gets his Sydney tennis court for Gatsby shoot
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio, who’s in Sydney to shoot the title role in The Great Gatsby film remake, did get his desired rental requirement of a harbourside Sydney bolthole with a tennis court.
DiCaprio, who topped the latest list of Hollywood's highest-earning actors according to Forbes.com, had his scouts looking for luxury rental lodgings with a $30,000 a week limit.
There are just 21 eastern suburb Sydney harbourfront homes with tennis courts, and eight have the tennis court directly on the water. He’s secured one of the ones with the tennis court on the non-harbourfront side in Vaucluse.
The Sydney Morning Herald's PS columnist Andrew Hornery reported that DiCaprio's $10,000-per-week rental digs are owned by businessman Alastair Walton and his wife, Gillian, who paid $14.275 million for the property in 2002.
While spending much of his time in The Hamptons, New York, Walton has been periodically resident in the rear nanny flat during previous rentals to other lesser-known occupants of the Luigi Rosselli-designed mansion. Interestingly F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel is set in the New York enclave of the rich and richer.
Walton is a career investment banker who was briefly vice chairman and managing director of Goldman Sachs JBWere in Australia.
