While it is, for now, just a juicy piece of real estate rumor, insiders have been able to leak this information that three-time Golden Globe Awardee and Hollywood heavyweight Tom Cruise has floated his big, old Beverly Hills mansion as a super-secret whisper listing with a hefty asking price of $50 million.
The property was bought by the actor and filmmaker with his then-new, but now third-ex-wife, Katie Holmes, in April 2007 for $30.5 million from Kurt Rappaport, Platinum Triangle's power broker.
According to public tax records, the stately and multi-winged house has a measurement of more than 10,000 square feet. The mansion, clad in dour gray stone, has seven bedrooms and nine bathrooms. The estate spreads in a 1.3 acre lot which features a lighted tennis court with baseball hoops, a roomy motor court with a swimming-pool-sized fountain, a lap-length swimming pool, a number of guesthouses and a children's playground. The estate is privately situated in a long and gated drive in a plum pocket of Beverly Hills. Around it are properties owned by media mogul Byron Allen and Kevin Huvan, the high-powered talent agent.
It seems that the superstar and occasionally controversial celebrity really wants some changes in his property portfolio. Some years back, he sold his long-time pied-a-terre at the American Felt Building in New York City's East Village for $3 million. His estate outside Telluride has likewise been made available in the open market with an asking price of $59 million. Cruise is also believed to be the owner of a mysterious ridgeline compound found above the Laurel Canyon in Los Angeles. This property is also for sale in the open market for less than $12 million.
Cruise started enjoying his fame way back in the '80s when he starred in films like Top Gun, Cocktail and Mission Impossible. He has been married thrice to actresses Mimi Rogers, Nicole Kidman and Katie Holmes and is a renowned supporter of the Church of Scientology.
