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Hot Property: Christina Aguilera lists Hollywood Hills home at $7,995,000

Hot Property featuring Christina Aguilera

Christina Aguilera's Hollywood Hills home is an architectural Midcentury with numerous features: a gym, a pool, a 12-person spa with a fireplace and a 1,200-square-foot master bedroom.

Hot Property
By Ann Brenoff, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
May 18, 2008
There's nothing like new motherhood to get you thinking about the nest, which may explain why singer-songwriter Christina Aguilera, whose son was born in January,has listed her Hollywood Hills home for $7,995,000.

Or maybe it's just time to change houses, the way she changes her siren looks.

 
The architectural Midcentury sure sounds like an adult's toy box: It has a gym, a pool and a 12-person spa with a fireplace. There's also a professional screening room that seats 18. At 1,200 square feet, the master bedroom is bigger than many Manhattan apartments. The house is set high enough in the hills to enjoy jetliner views. There are five bedrooms and seven bathrooms in 6,500 square feet, and it all sits at the end of a cul-de-sac.

Is it baby-friendly? Uh, not really.

But not to fear that the Latin goddess of song will be homeless. Last summer, the multi-Grammy-winning Aguilera and her husband, music marketer Jordan Bratman, bought Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne's former house in Beverly Hills for $11.5 million. It has six bedrooms and 10 bathrooms in 11,500 square feet.

Aguilera, 27, known for her powerful voice and platinum-blond sexpot image, made her TV debut on "Star Search" before she was 10, followed by "The New Mickey Mouse Club" at age 12. She has since sold more than 30 million albums worldwide.

Drew Fenton of Hilton & Hyland, Beverly Hills, has the listing.

Listen up, all you Gyllenhaalics

Does the fact that "Brokeback Mountain" star Jake Gyllenhaal, 27, may be a boomerang kid who sometimes stays with his parents make you love him any less? Me neither.

Between trips to New York and Cabo with Reese Witherspoon, the Oscar-nominated actor just may be stumbling around in his jammies at the Hollywood Hills home owned by his parents, Stephen Gyllenhaal and Naomi Foner.

Our "I saw evidence of Jake" spotter toured the five-bedroom, three-bathroom, 3,000-square-foot home that is listed for sale. The asking price has dropped from $4.2 million to $3,795,000 -- sounds like they're getting serious after three months on the market.

The listing agent says Jake doesn't live here -- part time or otherwise -- and points instead to the "modern light-filled design with an expansive fully equipped cook's kitchen" as a selling point. (Note to agent: Saying "come take a look and you might see Jake" is a bigger lure.) Anyway, the outdoor area was designed by landscape-designer-to-the-stars Jay Griffith. The property is almost an acre; the house sits way down a long driveway and juts out on a promontory from which there are magnificent city views.

Stephen Gyllenhaal is a poet and film and TV director. He directed the film version of the Pete Dexter novel "Paris Trout," which was nominated for five Emmy awards.

His wife, Foner, has written the screenplays for several feature films, including "Running on Empty" -- for which she received an Academy Award nomination for best original screenplay and won a Golden Globe in the same category. She also wrote "Losing Isaiah" and, most recently, "Bee Season." Then there are their two famous offspring: Jake -- can anyone's eyes really be that blue? -- and Maggie Gyllenhaal, whose credits include "World Trade Center" (2006).

Denny Kagasoff of Prudential California Realty is the listing agent.



Rock 'n' roll and wheel and deal

Don't you just love aging rockers? Especially when they are good to their mothers?

Just last month, Tiger Woods introduced Van Halen as "one of the greatest bands in history." (OK, the band was performing at a fundraiser for the Tiger Woods Foundation, but still.)

The band, around since 1972 in various incarnations, also has some real estate news to report.

First, there's Mom's house.





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