Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman has come back to Brentwood, where she lived for years before splitting with Tom Cruise in 2001.
Kidman, who won a lead actress Academy Award in 2003 for her role in "The Hours," and her husband, country music singer Keith Urban, are settling into a $7-million, contemporary-style home, where they expect to welcome their first child together in July.
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Los Angeles Times Wednesday, April 09, 2008 Home Edition Main News Part A Page 2 National Desk 1 inches; 49 words Type of Material: Correction
Hot Property: The April 6 column reported that Nicole Kidman had purchased a Brentwood home for $7 million. Kidman looked at the home a few months ago but did not purchase it, according to her publicist Catherine Olim of PMK/HBH. She is still looking for a home, Olim reports.
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Los Angeles Times Sunday, April 13, 2008 Home Edition Real Estate Part K Page 3 Features Desk 1 inches; 50 words Type of Material: Correction
Hot Property: The April 6 column incorrectly reported that Nicole Kidman had purchased a Brentwood home for $7 million. Kidman looked at the home a few months ago but did not purchase it, according to her publicist Catherine Olim of PMK/HBH. She is still looking for a home, Olim reports.
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Los Angeles Times Tuesday, April 15, 2008 Home Edition Main News Part A Page 2 National Desk 1 inches; 60 words Type of Material: Correction
Hot Property: The column in the April 6 Real Estate section said Nicole Kidman had agreed to star in a movie as Valerie Plame and described Plame as having been illegally identified as a CIA agent by the White House. Although some Bush administration figures have acknowledged speaking with reporters about Plame, none have been charged with leaking her identity.
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Los Angeles Times Sunday, April 20, 2008 Home Edition Real Estate Part K Page 3 Features Desk 1 inches; 56 words Type of Material: Correction
Hot Property: The April 6 column stated that Nicole Kidman had agreed to star in a movie as Valerie Plame and described Plame as having been illegally outed as a CIA agent by the White House. Although some Bush administration figures have acknowledged speaking with reporters about Plame, none have been charged with leaking her identity.
Kidman, 40, has two other children, whom she adopted with Cruise, and owns a house in Sydney, Australia, where she was raised. Urban, 40, was born in New Zealand.
The 5,600-square-foot Brentwood house, built in 1964, has five bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms, walls of glass, city views, rolling lawns, koi ponds and the privacy of living at the end of a cul-de-sac.
Kidman sold the last home she had in the neighborhood about four years ago for $10.5 million, area realty agents said.
The actress isn't giving up her film career for motherhood; in fact, she has agreed to star in a movie as Valerie Plame, the CIA agent illegally outed by the White House.
Running home to Rancho Mirage
Coco Crisp, of the 2007 World Series champions the Boston Red Sox, has purchased a $3-million getaway in a gated Rancho Mirage community.
The home has four bedrooms and seven bathrooms in 8,500 square feet, with a pool, a spa, a waterfall, a two-room master-bedroom suite, his-and-her bathrooms, a wet bar, a media room, three fireplaces and an air-conditioned garage.
The 28-year-old center fielder is known for his defensive skills in the outfield and his speed on the base paths.
And he has a humorous nickname. His great-grandmother called him "Co," which is short for his real name, Covelli. His siblings "got a whiff of the cereal" (Cocoa Krispies) and started calling him Coco, he said. In Double A baseball, he started using Covelli "Coco" Crisp as his name.
Where sci-fi film memories echo
The former Los Feliz home of Universal Studios staff composer Herman Stein and his wife, Anita, has come on the market at $1,049,000.
The composer died at age 91 on March 15, 2007, and the listing became effective the same day in 2008, observed listing agent Richard Stanley of Coldwell Banker Real Estate in Los Feliz.
Herman Stein's work includes the scores of nearly 200 films, but he was best known for creating background music for many 1950s sci-fi horror classics -- "The Incredible Shrinking Man," "It Came From Outer Space" and "Creature From the Black Lagoon."
