Actress Leah Remini has her home listed in the in the picturesque Studio City district of Los Angeles – and at a lower price.
Ms. Remini purchased the six-bedroom, nine-bathroom property in 2003 for $3.75 million and first put it on the market in September 2022 for $12,995,000. Just 10 days later, she received an offer but didn’t sell. Now she has slashed the price of the property, which spans more than 10,000 square meters on a manicured and fenced 1.58-acre lot, by half a million dollars, asking $12,499,000.
This is home in the Fryman Canyon neighborhood, one of the most prestigious and star-studded corners of Los Angeles. Neighbors in this part of Hollywood, where idyllic apartment blocks are lined with sycamore trees and gracious Tudor Revival-style homes, include George and Amal Clooney, Lucy Liu and Bruno Mars.
The house was built in 2001 and is a mix of architectural styles with Mediterranean and English influences, as well as a vine-covered basement and a Spanish tiled roof. The grounds include a dance studio and a swimming pool lined with mature trees and a stone landscape for relaxation. Inside, the master bedroom features a fireplace and views of the San Gabriel mountains, while the entry hallway leads to a pretty spiral staircase that leads to a mezzanine. Much of the decor is heavily monochrome; In the kitchen, white floor-to-ceiling cabinets surround a gray center island topped by black pendant lights. The room is anchored by a bay window.
Ms. Remini, 53, bought the house at the height of her fame as Carrie Heffernan, the lovable working-class antihero on the hit CBS sitcom “The King of Queens,” which ran for nine seasons. She famously resigned from the Church of Scientology a decade after her arrival, in 2013, and two years later published a memoir about her departure, Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology, which was a New York Times bestseller. She followed the book with a documentary on A&E, “Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath,” for which she won two prime-time Emmys.
Since then, she has been one of the entertainment industry’s harshest critics of the organization, whose Hollywood members include John Travolta, Tom Cruise, Elisabeth Moss and now-convicted rapist Danny Masterson. In August, Ms. Remini filed a lawsuit against the Church of Scientology, saying she had been subjected to a “mob-like attack” of harassment and intimidation in the decade since she left the church.
This is the third time Ms. Remini has listed the home this year; She had previously decided to sell in January and again in February, but later removed the listing both times. Representatives for Ms. Remini declined to speculate on the reason.