She'll Get Mail at Westside Address
Actress Meg Ryan has purchased a Westside home for close to its asking price of more than $8 million.
Ryan, 38, is separated from actor Dennis Quaid, whom she married in 1991. Quaid filed for divorce in July, and Ryan counter-sued in August.
Ryan began a highly publicized relationship with actor Russell Crowe this year while both were filming "Proof of Life," due out in December.
The New Zealand-born Crowe has a 560-acre farm in Australia, where he was raised. Ryan has been living in a house close to the Brentwood home she had shared with Quaid. They have a young son.
Ryan bought a Mediterranean-style home, recently restored, with five bedrooms, a screening room, guest house, pool and city-to-ocean views. The gated home also has a private drive.
She bought her first home in the L.A. area in 1988 for $362,000 after moving here from New York in 1984 and appearing in the movie "Top Gun" in 1986. She sold the house for $630,000 the same year she co-starred with Billy Crystal in "When Harry Met Sally. . . ." It was only one year after she had purchased and remodeled the 42-year-old house.
Since then, Ryan has had a string of movie hits, including "Sleepless in Seattle" (1993), "City of Angels" (1998), "You've Got Mail" (1998) and "Hanging Up" (1999).
Kurt Rappaport of Westside Estate Agency, Beverly Hills, handled the deal, sources said.
Chris Mills, a forward for the Golden State Warriors who previously played for the Cleveland Cavaliers and the New York Knicks, is buying a home that is under construction in the North Ranch area of Thousand Oaks. He has listed his home in Calabasas at just under $1.6 million.
Mills, 30, attended Fairfax High School and was a first-round draft pick out of the University of Arizona in 1993.
Mills' new home, which is in the framing stage, is being expanded from 7,000 square feet to about 9,000 square feet. The gated estate, on slightly more than three acres, will have an infinity pool, detached pool house, five-car garage and jogging trails when completed early next year.
His Calabasas home is in a gated community and has six bedrooms in 6,600 square feet. The home also has a pool, spa and sports court.
Jordan Cohen of Re/Max Olson, Westlake Village, has the Calabasas listing and represented Mills in his purchase.
Nicki Laporta of Troop Real Estate, Thousand Oaks, had the listing on the North Ranch house.
