Once upon a time, nothing came between Brooke Shields and her skin-tight Calivin Klein jeans. Decades late, however, the iconic (and hyper-sexualized) pre-teen fashion model turned actress has put $7.4 million in between her and her long-time home in the ritzy Rivera area of L.A.’s posh Pacific Palisades.
The “Blue Lagoon” actress, a five-time People’s Choice Award winner whose most recent works consists of lots of animated films and television series (“All Underdogs Go to Heaven,” “Mr. Pickles,” “Momma Named Me Sheriff”), turned a tidy profit on the home she scooped up for $3.24 million about 25 years ago, in the early days of her marriage to tennis legend Andre Agassi, while she starred as the titular character on the late ‘90s sitcom “Suddenly Susan.”
Long based in New York City, Shields and Chris Henchy, her screenwriter/producer spouse of 20+ years, who co-founded the Funny or Die website, have made the secluded, five-bedroom and five-and-a-half-bath chalet-esque home available as a high-end rental since at least 2015, at prices between $25,000 and $35,000 per month. (So the scuttlebutt goes, the house was once rented to Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck while they renovated their huge compound a few doors down the street; they’ve since divorced and sold the house, in 2019, for $32 million to Adam Levine and Behati Prinsloo.)
Built in the early 1980s, clad in wood, and accented with brick and river stone, the pushing-up-on-5,400-square-foot three-story home is secured behind electronic driveway gates and gives off a relaxed, chalet-esque vibe, with rustic stone fireplaces, tongue-and-groove paneled walls and rows of windows that open to wide, brick-paved balconies with bird’s-eye canyon and mountain views.
The light and bright kitchen is spacious, with delicately veined marble counters and heavy-duty commercial-style appliances, while a lower-level entertainment area includes a kitchenette/bar. The four guest bedrooms are charming, with farmhouse-style built-ins, while the top-floor primary suite incorporates a lofted den/office, two fireplaces — one in the bedroom, the other in the spa-style bathroom — a cedar-lined walk-in closet, a sauna, and a slender balcony with open views.
A huge deck extends out over the canyon outside the lower-level family room, and a brick path zigzags down the steep slope to a kidney-shaped swimming pool and spa nestled into a sunny clearing surrounded by mature trees.
The property was listed with Jade Mills and Albert Sousa of Coldwell Banker Realty; the buyers were represented by The Agency’s Cody Garcia.
For the last 14 years, Shields and Henchy have made their primary home in New York’s West Village, where in 2008 they shelled out $5.5 million for a 22-foot-wide Greek Revival townhouse that dates to 1848, with a 40-foot south-facing garden. At the time of the purchase, the four-floor (plus cellar) building housed four floor-through apartments that have since been combined into a single-family home. And, like a lot of wealthy New Yorkers, the couple maintains a home in the Hamptons. In their case, a shingled cottage on the hedge-lined outskirts of downtown Southampton they scooped up in 2008 for $4.25 million.
