Actress Lena Headey, who plays
the evil queen on HBO's hit TV show "Game of Thrones," just bought a
dated home in the Valley that's almost half the price and about
two-thirds the square footage and acreage of her former home.
She sold that previous home, in
the Hollywood Hills, at a loss of about $340,000 during a difficult 2012
divorce. How difficult? Last year, her bank account contained "less
than $5," she claimed in widely reported court documents. She and her ex, Peter Loughran, have a son who just turned 4.
Although her Hollywood Hills home
wasn't especially extravagant by L.A. standards -- she sold it for
$1,349,000 -- her new purchase is downright humble for a TV star. She
paid $790,000, a bit over the asking price, for a 3-bedroom, 3-bath
midcentury house in Sherman Oaks, a community in Los Angeles' San
Fernando Valley. It has 1,800 square feet and sits on 6,700 square feet
of land.
By contrast, the home she sold in
2012 was 2,500 square feet on a 10,000-square-foot lot. It too was a
midcentury modern with 3 bedrooms and 3 baths. She'd paid $1,685,000 for
it in 2008.
For a midcentury aficionado, the
new home has plenty of potential. The same family had owned it for more
than 60 years, since its 1950 construction; Headey snapped it up in its
first time ever on the market.
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