Mel Gibson’s Passion for Real Estate
The actor, who bought a Costa Rica ranch in spring, downsizes in Malibu.
With the sale this summer of his Malibu home, Mel Gibson is proving to be a shrewd player in the real-life version of Monopoly.
The actor-director-producer sold his home on 155 feet of beachfront for nearly $30 million. He bought the 7,000-square-foot, Mediterranean-style estate in the fall of 2005 for $24 million.
The house, built in 1981, was remodeled shortly before Gibson purchased it. The home has six bedrooms, 10 bathrooms, a gym, a library, an office, an elevator, a lagoon pool, a cabana, a bar and a wine cellar.
The Malibu deal preceded Gibson’s sale this month of his 28-room, Tudor-style mansion on 76 acres in Greenwich, Conn. The selling price of the 13-bedroom, 16,000-square-foot estate was reported by Bloomberg News as $39.5 million.
And in May, Gibson bought a 400-plus-acre agricultural and cattle ranch in Costa Rica for $25.8 million, according to La Nación, a Costa Rican publication.
The Oscar-winning director and co-producer (”Braveheart,” 1995) was born in New York but was raised in Australia, where he also has owned grazing and farmland.
He has had three houses in Malibu, including one he bought for $3.5 million in 2000. It has four bedrooms in 2,300 square feet and sits on 50 feet of sandy beach.
Gibson, 51, and his wife, Robyn, have seven children. He is also known for his work on “The Passion of the Christ” (2004) and “Apocalypto” (2006) and he starred in the ’80s film “The Year of Living Dangerously” and the “Lethal Weapon” film series.