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Re: Heath Ledger & Michelle Williams To Live in $2.3 Million 'Treehouse'
« Reply #10 on: July 25, 2006, 06:27:13 am »
Bit more house description.... (note, once again, Michelle is called his wife...)

 Our property guru chimes in with some corrective info and a little somethin' extra to complete the story of Heath Ledger's return to the Hollywood Hills. As we reported last week, Ledger, wife Michelle Williams and baby Matilda, have purchased Ellen DeGeneres' superfab mid-mod masterpiece known as the "Tree House". The property guru emails us: "First, the house was not built by Marmol + Radziner. Ellen sold this house to buy a $6.5 million dollar Marmol + Radziner in Mt. Olympus.

Ellen sold the “tree house” to a commercial director who had bought it for his mistress. In the process of closing, the wife found out and made him drop the mistress and sell the house. It went back on the market nearly immediately and sat for 6+ months on the market.

The house is very “Gay-sian” in design and is surprisingly mid-market in finishes. KitchenAid, not Sub-Zero, etc. And VERY small bedrooms. Even the name “tree house” was sort of a semi-joke on more famous mid-century homes. There are strong Buff + Hensman lines, but when I pulled the plans at the city, there is no provenance. The reports are true that the lot is VERY private (walled, gated, set back from the street, separate gated driveway), however there are zero views. The house sits on Woodrow Wilson, sited to look into green treetops, no interior canyon views, no city lights, just forest. If you can jump the fence, the master has a shower with floor to ceiling glass, facing the yard so Michelle can tease the gardeners. Oddly, a remaining feature from when it was Ellen’s house is that there are lighted paths across this lot and the adjoining two that she still owns, connecting them at night. With Will Farrell renting the other houses, the two celeb families with babies can walk back and forth for play dates and shared nanny duties."
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Re: Heath Ledger & Michelle Williams To Live in $2.3 Million 'Treehouse'
« Reply #11 on: July 26, 2006, 06:47:45 am »
More on the move...

Heath's House for Rent?

Looks like Heath and Michelle left Boerum Hill without even saying goodbye. According to Australia's Daily Telegraph, "From his beginnings in Perth, to the bright lights of LA, to Sydney's beachside Bronte and New York's Brooklyn, Ledger has again become fed up with local lensmen, abandoning his new Brooklyn apartment and moving to the Hollywood Hills."
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Re: Heath Ledger & Michelle Williams To Live in $2.3 Million 'Treehouse'
« Reply #12 on: July 26, 2006, 09:50:22 am »
From an Australian newspaper...

WA actor Heath Ledger and his family have bought a Los Angeles house once owned by talkshow host Ellen DeGeneres.
Ledger and his partner, actress Michelle Williams, paid $2.3 million for the Hollywood Hills home where they will live with their baby Matilda, according to News Ltd.

DeGeneres and her Aussie girlfriend Portia DeRossi once lived the house, which is five minutes down the hill from Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe's home.

Comedian Will Ferrell owns the lot next door and stars Kirsten Dunst and Matthew McConaughey live nearby.
 
Ledger sold his beachfront Sydney home after claiming freelance photographers had pestered him and his family.

The couple bought a New York apartment before moving to Hollywood.
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Re: Heath Ledger & Michelle Williams To Live in $2.3 Million 'Treehouse'
« Reply #13 on: July 26, 2006, 09:51:17 am »
They are NOT leaving NY---this is a second residence for when they HAVE to or want to be in CA.

I don't know, Ranchgal...sounds pretty permanent from what I am reading.

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