Monday, September 16, 2013

Courtney Cox Lists A. Quincy Jones House

SELLER: Courtney Cox and David Arquette
LOCATION: Bevelry Hills, CA
PRICE: $19,500,000
SIZE: 5,500 square feet (approx.), 5 bedrooms, 5.5 bathrooms

YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Thanks to an eagle eyed informant we'll henceforth call Diane Todish it's come to Your Mama's attention that sitcom star and producer Courtney Cox (Friends, Cougar Town) and her quirky actor ex-husband David Arquette have, as anticipated by real estate gossips around the globe, finally listed their former family residence in the terrifically trendy and spectacularly spendy Trousdale Estates area of Beverly Hills (CA) on the open market with a $19,500,000 price tag.*

Property records (and other online resources) show the long ago split but only recently divorced Cox-Arquettes purchased the trophy property in happier marital days, in June 2004, for $5,450,000. They had the A. Quincy Jones-designed single-story sprawler worked over in 2006—with a reconfiguration of the bedroom wing and other alterations—by Cory Buckner, a talented, L.A.-based lady architect who quite literally wrote the to-date definitive book on A. Quincy Jones.

Current listing information (and other online resources) shows the approximately 5,500 square foot house has four bedrooms plus a staff bedroom, a total of 5.5 bathrooms, a bi-level ling room with a free-standing fireplace, vast expanses of floor-to-ceiling sliding glass doors throughout, and a detached office area. Listing details go on to indicate the property spans .83 almost-all-level acres with panoramic city views, gated off-street parking for up to six cars, and an honest-to-goodness pee-in-your-God-damn-pants perfect circular swimming pool.

We're not sure how their real estate assets got divvied up in their divorce but at the time they split Mister Arquette and Miz Cox also owned a walled, gated and heavily fortified two-ish acre ocean front compound on the bluffs in Malibu that they bought in early 2007 for $17,150,000, had overhauled by architect Michael Kovac and interior designer Trip Haenisch, and photographed for the July/August, 2011, issue of Elle Decor. In September 2011, Miz Cox, through the same trust that owns the Bev Hills and Malibu properties, paid $2,050,000 for a two bedroom and three bathroom condo crib on a high floor at the celeb-saturated Sierra Towers building in West Hollywood.

*Several of Your Mama's well-connected and better informed informants deep inside the celebrity real estate milieu have previously snitched that the house was being shopped for quite some time without success as a pocket listing.

listing photos: Hilton & Hyland

15 comments:

Rosco Mare said...

Gor-jus property. In my next life, hopefully I will invent something that will fund the purchase of a MCM showplace like this. Shit! I just remembered my religion doesn't believe in reincarnation.

Calling Carla Ridge! Are you out there, Carla?

Anonymous said...

Don't forget she also owns the house next door mama!

Carla Ridge said...

Yes, cher Rosco Mare, I'm here. But three guesses where I'm going to be tomorrow night?

BTW, i might say the new A Quincy Jones volume published in connection with the recent Jones exhibit at the Hammer Museum (as in Armand Hammer, as in Oxy Petroleum) is a better volume than the Buckner. It focuses more on his later, larger modern mansions...his work in CSH/Eichler-land having been exhaustively covered by others. And frankly, insights into the Brody house and others of its class are what our crowd *really* is looking for anyway, no?

Carla Ridge said...

Sorry, i should have better identified the new Jones volume: it's called "Building for Better Living."

Anonymous said...

Pssst, hey Jamie McCourt, lookie here!

Anonymous said...

What is “CSH/Eichler-land”?

Anonymous said...

Last I heard David was living in the house next door.

lil' gay boy said...

J'adore.

Anonymous said...

That circular pool is fabulous. Completely impractical and a tremendous waste of space, but fabulous nonetheless.

Petra's

Anonymous said...

A grand total of TWO listing photos?! Argh! Thanks for reminding me why I dislike Hilton & Hyland.

Anonymous said...

Trousdale needs to get a better Security Patrol. BH Police don't have the time to drive around the streets up there. You would think the residents could scrape up the $$$ to hire their top notch security like Palisades Riviera has.

Rosco Mare said...

@ fabulous Carla Ridge:

Tomorrow, will you be at...

Opening night of the stage musical THE WIZARD OF OZ at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood? Just a guess...

I'll be there, sipping some of Mama Dearest's special water before the show.

Anonymous said...

Anon 1:13, you say the same damn thing every single time Mama does a Trousdale post. Don't you get it?
The reality is that what we have is perfectly adequate. Crime is basically non-existant, where is the need for more? Plus, we have Beverly Hills PD. Many people love Trousdale for its relaxed feeling and would hate to see it turn into another Beverly Park, where you can't back out of your driveway wirhout a rent-a-cop breathing down your neck.

Sandpiper said...

To market a Quincy Jones home, no description beyond his name should ever be needed. The gentleman has taste. Case in point.

Diamonds in the Daytime said...

Whenever Sierra Towers is mentioned my nose is violated by the perceived musty odor of Joan Collins' 1960s Estee Lauder perfume, cigars and mink storage mothballs; all permanently absorbed in her preferred elevator.