Sometimes real life does imitate, or at least vaguely reflect the make-believe business of show. Hollywood couple Anne Heche and Thomas Jane co-starred as an acrimoniously divorced couple in the provocatively named 2009-2011 series “Hung” — they were both involved with other people at the time, she with her “Men in Trees” co-star James Tupper and he with Patricia Arquette — but their romance did not bloom until a decade later when they got back together to portray a married couple in the Netflix indie thriller “The Vanished.”
In late 2019, six or so months after the not-married couple went public with their romance, and around the same time Heche sold homes in L.A. and Lake Arrowhead, Calif., that she’d shared with Tupper, Jane dropped almost $1.9 million on a fashionably renovated 1926 storybook English Tudor cottage in L.A.’s hyper-trendy Silver Lake neighborhood. (Tax records show Heche was added as an owner in late 2020.) Alas, the couple soon changed their real estate minds and flipped the four-bedroom and four-bath home back on the market last month and have quickly sold it for a small bit over its slightly under $2 million asking price.
Built in 1926 but extensively updated and modernized by a previous owner, the not-quite-2,100-square-foot home features an open floor plan, elegant (and expensive) herringbone-pattern wood floors and, in the living room, an imposing and contemporary smooth concrete fireplace.
Jane and Heche were represented in the transaction by Carey More of Corcoran Global Living and the buyers were handled by Adam Sires of Nourmand & Associates.
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Image Credit: Redfin Charming with a pint-sized front porch and a steeply peaked gable, the modestly sized home is fronted by a simply and attractively landscaped garden.
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Image Credit: Redfin An arched built-in buffet defines the dining area in the loft-like main living space, while the somewhat compact but bespoke high-end kitchen spills out through a glass slider to an elevated deck.
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Image Credit: Redfin There are three bedrooms and two baths on the main floor, including the primary suite that showcases a giant arched picture window, a vaulted and beamed ceiling, direct deck access and a surprisingly petite bathroom.
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Image Credit: Redfin Downstairs, there’s a fourth bedroom, a couple more bathrooms and a family room that doubles as a screening room with in-ceiling speakers.
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Image Credit: Redfin Both the lower-level bedroom and the family/screening room spill out to the backyard that’s designed for relaxation and entertaining with a pizza oven, lots of patio space for al fresco dining and lounging and, the property’s most unexpected feature, an 18-floot-long all-glass meditation pavilion.
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Image Credit: Redfin Tax records indicate Jane still owns a small two-bedroom home in the Silver Lake area that he bought in 2001 for about $550,000, while Heche, as previously mentioned, recently divested herself of a couple of homes. First, in late 2019, she sold a handsome Italianate villa on the border between Hollywood and Hancock Park for $3.165 million — well under the original asking price of $3.95 million but a solid profit on the $1.85 million paid in 2009 — and in early 2020 she unloaded an eclectic lakeside retreat in woodsy Lake Arrowhead, Calif., in the mountains about 80 miles east of L.A., for exactly $1 million.
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