Four years ago, actress Milla Jovovich and her producer/director husband Paul W. S. Anderson raised eyebrows when they traded their Beverly Hills estate home of over a decade for this hulking Hollywood Hills mansion.
The surprise wasn’t really to do with the locale shift. Rather, their former Beverly Hills house was a family friendly, Tuscan villa-themed paradise with a vineyard, lush terraced gardens, a swimming pool and a vine-encrusted guesthouse, while the Hollywood mansion is a rather forbidding-looking contemporary edifice set atop a barren knoll surrounded a bleak concrete block wall. The place also offers an essentially landscape-free dirt yard, no swimming pool and is far less private than their old home.
Jovovich and Anderson explained away their puzzling decision by saying they wanted a big real estate project. “We were itching to build a house from scratch,” they blabbed to the Wall Street Journal in 2022, also telling the venerable rag that they planned to turn their huge new home into a “sci-fi dream house.”
But the couple must’ve quickly changed their minds, because they were seen house hunting again within months. And last year, they paid $12 million for a more family-friendly home in Hidden Hills, a guard-gated community nestled deep within L.A.’s San Fernando Valley. Records now reveal they’ve quietly disposed of the Hollywood Hills mansion, selling it off-market for $11.6 million. The buyers are longtime L.A. locals Thierry Guetta and his wife Debora, he the street artist better known as Mr. Brainwash.
Unfortunately, because the house was never listed on the public market—and has never once been on the market since it was built in 2005—we still know very little about its interiors. What we do know is that there are six bedrooms and six bathrooms in about 9,300 square feet of living space per tax records, all of it spread across three full floors equipped with walls of glass throughout. There’s also a three-car garage, a very large concrete driveway and three full acres of steep hillside land.
Due to its perch atop the peak of one of the tallest mountains in all of the Hollywood Hills, you can bet the former Jovovich house is also equipped with striking views that sweep over the Downtown L.A. and Century City skylines to the Pacific Ocean and Catalina Island.
And with the right renovations—and many millions of dollars, naturally—we believe this house could become a truly showstopping, warmly modern hilltop estate. As of right now, however, it’s still got a bleak face that only a prison warden could love.
Jovovich and Anderson have already moved into their new Hidden Hills escape, which they bought from NBA baller Ben Simmons. Built in 2021 and designed with a trendy modern farmhouse look, the place packs seven bedrooms and eight baths into 12,000 square feet of living space.
Some other highlights include a “show” kitchen and a separate catering kitchen, a gym, a detached guesthouse and retractable Fleetwood glass doors throughout the estate, plus 1.5 acres of land at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac.
Jovovich, who was at one point the highest-paid model in the world, famously starred in the “Resident Evil” film franchise, while Anderson produced the series and is widely regarded as the creative force behind the films, which grossed more than $1.2 billion worldwide and have made the couple enormously wealthy.
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