Megan Fox & Brian Austin Green Split, Sell Bing Crosby Carriage House
Less than two years after hot young couple Megan Fox (Transformers) and Brian Austin Green (Beverly Hills 90210) sold their their gorgeous 1936 Spanish Colonial home in Los Feliz for just under $4 million, they purchased the carriage house on the former Bing Crosby estate in Toluca Lake for $3.35 million. Now, with their divorce pending, they just let their Bing Crosby home go for a mere $2.6 million, creating a $750,000 loss for the couple. That’s a lot of major life change in a very short time!
The Burbank-ish home they just let go totals 6,710 square feet — a mostly one story ranch house that perfectly suited the young family of two boys under the age of four, and an 11-year-old son from Green’s prior relationship. There are four bedrooms and six bathrooms to accommodate them all, and the kids particularly loved the game room,
the saltwater swimming pool, spa, fire pit and 563-square-foot pool house with a kitchen.
The adults enjoyed the master suite with his and hers bathrooms, a pair of walk-in closets,
and a lofted bonus room.
The entire home was extensively remodeled in 2008, sprucing up the exposed beams, rows of skylights and the wall fireplace that divides the open living room and kitchen. That kitchen, by the way, now has an Australian opal granite-topped center island.
If the tumultuous recent history of the house doesn’t do much for you, the historical features of the property might draw your interest. According to TopTenRealEstateDeals.com, on January 4, 1943, the original Crosby home was destroyed in a Christmas tree fire ignited when Crosby’s wife, Dixie Lee, was removing the strings of lights from their dry Christmas tree. The incinerated mansion was eventually rebuilt, with the four original acres divided in half and one of the new homes becoming the residence of Andy Griffith and later Jerry Van Dyke. The house that Fox and Green just sold was the other one on the divided property.
There’s no word yet on where Fox or Green will land in the future, but we’ll keep you posted.
Megan Fox & Brian Austin Green Split, Sell Bing Crosby Carriage House