Hot Property

For Tom Arnold, another Westside garden of the night?

Hot Property: Tom Arnold

Jeff Ong

The exterior of Tom Arnold's Tarzana home. The comedian and actor has listed the Mediterranean-style house for $2,275,000.

By Ann Brenoff, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
April 28, 2008
Not unlike Saul Steinberg's famous 1976 New Yorker magazine cover illustration called "View of the World From 9th Avenue," there are those who see the Westside of Los Angeles as the center of the universe -- and every place else is, well, elsewhere.

Now, we're not saying that Tom Arnold is one of those people. But the comedic actor has listed his Tarzana home of less than two years for $2,275,000. Why? He says the 4,250-foot-house is just "too much house for one man." Shall we take wagers on whether he winds up back on the Westside?

 
    Arnold's Tarzana place is in the exclusive area south of Ventura Boulevard, and it has five bedrooms and four bathrooms. Mediterranean in style, it has hardwood floors and a granite-countered cook's kitchen. The master bedroom has cathedral ceilings and a fireplace. The half-acre property is gated and private. There's also a large swimming pool and an outdoor patio area for entertaining.

    Arnold moved from his Beverly Hills area home in late 2006. He paid $1.95 million for the Tarzana house.

    And the house indeed may be too big for him, especially since he says he's hardly home. He is currently shooting "Hard Breakers." His film "Gardens of the Night," with John Malkovich, hits theaters in September, followed by "The Year of Getting to Know Us" with Sharon Stone, Jimmy Fallon and Lucy Liu in October.

    Arnold, 49, and Roseanne Barr divorced in 1994. His second marriage, to makeup artist Julie Champnella, also ended in divorce. Ex-wife No. 3, Shelby Roos Arnold of WEA, Beverly Hills, is the listing agent.




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