Actor and Hollywood scion Jessica Capshaw and Christopher Gavigan, co-founder and Chief Product Officer of entrepreneurial actor Jessica Alba’s eco-product conglomerate The Honest Company, have hung a $13.75 million asking price on their tastefully appointed home along a premiere street in the ritzy Riviera neighborhood in L.A.’s posh Pacific Palisades community.
Capshaw, daughter of retired actor Kate Capshaw, which makes her the stepdaughter of Hollywood heavyweight Steven Spielberg, spent a few years on David E. Kelley’s legal drama “The Practice” before she began a stint of nearly a decade, from 2009-2018, on Shonda Rhimes’ medical drama “Grey’s Anatomy.” And, she’s all set to next appear on the silver screen in “Dear Zoe,” an indie adaptation of Philip Beard’s 2005 epistolary young-adult novel of the same name.
The asking price is an enviably profitable chunk over the exactly $10 million the well-connected couple paid for the handsome East Coast-y traditional in a clandestine off-market deal a bit more than five years ago. At the time of their purchase, the more than 7,500-square-foot home was not yet completed but has since bloomed into a sophisticated and inviting family home that is both refined and relaxed with half a dozen bedrooms and as many bathrooms.
Secured behind locked gates, protected with a top-notch security system and obscured by the leafy canopies of a variety of mature specimen trees on a corner parcel of just over one-third of an acre, the graciously proportioned home comfortably accommodates both formal and casual entertaining, while myriad state-of-the-art features include HEPA+ air filtration, a water filtering system, a whole-house audio system, and ozone filtration for the swimming pool.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com Framed by clipped boxwoods, fronted by a deep porch and punctuated by a copper-roofed bay window, the grey-shingled home might just as easily be found hiding behind towering hedges along a quiet lane in the Hamptons.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com Ample but smartly short of unnecessarily huge formal living and dining rooms flank the foyer, and the expensively outfitted gourmet kitchen — the imported French range all by itself runs more than ten grand! — flows easily into an informal dining area with a charming reading nook with a rosé-colored sofa.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com With cushioned banquettes on either side of a fireplace, the adjoining family room spills out to the backyard though a room-wide bank of nearly floor-to-ceiling folding glass doors. There’s also a mudroom and a gym nipped away on the main floor
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Image Credit: Realtor.com Five en suite guest bedrooms include one on the main floor that is suitable as staff quarters, a children’s games room or a home schooling set up, while the homeowner’s retreat is a serene and classy suite that offers an antique stone fireplace, a private office/study that opens out to a private balcony, and a marble-tiled bathroom complete with an extra-deep soaking tub, a steam shower and an infrared sauna.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com A stone water feature adds aquatic liveliness to the verdant front yard, while the backyard is an entertainer’s dream with an outdoor kitchen, pizza oven and dining terrace beneath the beautifully twisted branches of fifty-year-old olive trees. An outdoor fireplace and a spa take the chill off cool evenings, while the swim jet swimming pool is a cool respite on warm afternoons.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com The landscaping was handled by Beverly Hills-based landscape designer Christine London, according to listings held by Ann Eysenring at The Agency, and makes liberal use of low-maintenance and ever-green Forever Lawn artificial turf, a product the Capshaw-Gavigans like so much they promote it on the company’s website.
Though their Pacific Palisades home was completed in 2017, it was only last year the couple unloaded their former home, a 1927 Spanish Colonial cottage in Santa Monica that went in a $5.75 million off-market (and all-cash) deal to Texas car dealership billionaire Dan Friedkin.