Toni Collette’s property fickleness spreads to Hollywood
Actress Toni Collette and her musician husband, Dave Galafassi, have listed their Hollywood Los Angeles pied a terre, as they seek to unravel their Australian property holdings.
The 1924 Los Angeles house is on the market at $1,325,000. It cost the entertainment industry couple $1.33 million in late 2010, having been listed with $1,445,000 hopes. The walled, gated Spanish-styled house had been purchased as a fixer-upper in early 2008 for $650,000.
The residence sits on a 198-square metre block between Santa Monica Boulevard and Melrose Avenue.
It has three bedrooms and three bathrooms, along with a detached pool house. The Collette-Galafassi furnishings are a somewhat spare, according to the on-the-ball realestalker.blogspot.com blogger, with a colorful pastiche of mid-century modern things that include a couple of Hans Wegner Papa Bear Chairs.
When the house was bought Realestalker noted it was in the downmarket 90038 zip code, not normally associated with celebrity residents.
The recent unfolding events in Sydney have been described as the couple catching a case of “the Celebrity Real Estate Fickle”.
Collette has appeared in numerous feature films over the years, getting huge billing for Muriel’s Wedding, then The Sixth Sense and Little Miss Sunshine. More recently she starred in Steven Spielberg’s Showtime series United States of Tara, in a lead role that won her Emmy Awards. The series finished last year.
The LA property is for sale through Steve Sanders at Coldwell Banker. The Zillow website says it’s been listed for 39 days. It had been briefly listed early 2011 at $1,445,000, according to Zillow.
