Actress Jennifer Aniston arrives at the Glamour
Reels Moments event, which gives women who are usually in front of the camera a
chance to direct short films about real life stories, in Los Angeles October 16,
2006. REUTERS/Fred Prouser
Jennifer Aniston is making her first home purchase since she and Brad Pitt
parted ways.
The Emmy-winning actress is buying a house in Beverly Hills for $15 million.
The home, designed in the early 1970s by architect Hal Levitt, is being rebuilt
and was put under contract while in construction. The one-story house, on half
an acre, has six bedrooms and seven bathrooms in 9,000-plus square feet,
according to public records.
Levitt, whose trademark is gray-and-black-onyx terrazzo floors, is popular
with the celebrity crowd. Others who have owned homes designed by the Modernist
are the Olsen twins; Darren Star, creator of Sex and the City, and Norman
Cousins, the late writer, philosopher and editor of the Saturday Review of
Literature.
Since Aniston and her actor husband called it quits, she has been leasing a
two-bedroom home with 50 feet of beachfront in Malibu. The house rents in the
vicinity of $25,000 to $30,000 a month on a year's lease. Rent on the property
would skyrocket to $100,000 a month or more in July and August on a
month-to-month lease.
Before marrying in 2000, Aniston owned a small home in Hollywood Hills. In
April of this year, she and Pitt sold their Wallace Neff-designed Beverly Hills
home for close to its $24.95 million asking price.
